As a fix for an unresponsive trading post, total gems not loading, no mouse over descriptions, greyed out buy/sell buttons, non-loading/gold spinny issues, you can follow these steps:
1. Open your trading post (leave this open until finished)
2. Open your options panel
3. Change the language to French
4. Wait for the trading post to reload in French
5. Change the language back to English (anglais)
6. Test trading post
However, on the Mac client exclusively, this introduces a gamma bug. Upon changing the language the first time, the screen will go really dark. But once the tp is fixed, now you have to fix this.
The fix is easy, just go to the graphics panel and move the gamma slider, the screen will instantly go back to normal allowing you to just put the slider back on your default/desired setting.
My concern is, why is this happening? And more importantly, why is it happening to me now without switching languages? On random occassion over the last week, I have had this gamma bug occur by simply pressing O to open the tp… It actually loaded fine with the exception of my gamma going haywire.
As additional info for this, my hubs also plays on a Mac and experiences this same type of gamma bug, but only after he changes resolution (he’s never once needed this text language fix, so it’s sort of irrelevant to the initial statements here). He plays on a large, external monitor in his office, but if he logs off while using that screen, then later opens the game on his default laptop screen, the resolution is off, but the colours look fine. After he changes the screen resolution to slightly less than the default retina display resolution, he has the gamma bug.
Since we have a new Mac guy who seems to be reading this forum, I’d like to put this out there to see if we can get a solution to this some day. Or at least an acknowledgement that, yes, this is a bug and yes, Anet now knows about it and is on their “we’ll get to that someday” list.
Thanks Luis!
