Issues with blur image effects on Kindle Fire

Target Platforms Mobile
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We’re having some major issues with blur image effects on the Kindle Fire and Fire HD, and wondered if anyone else had had similar problems/any idea what the cause may be? It seems to be that for any effects which use a blur (including vignetting, tilt shift, etc) the effect is being applied repeatedly, as if there’s a camera buffer not being cleared… for example, a blur on an object will remain even once the camera’s moved away, and vignettes appear to morph and re-apply on top of itself, then remain on screen.

This issue doesn’t occur on any other platforms we’ve tested on - including the same build on other Android devices, such as the Nexus 10 which runs it without issue.

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I had a similar thing happen to me recently when testing on an S3. It ran fine on every other device we tested on besides the S3. I don’t remember where I found it, but someone else suggested turning off “Use 32-bit display buffer” in the Android Player Settings and switching it to “Use 24-bit depth buffer”.

This solution worked for us, and our app now runs fine on all of the devices we have tested it on.

Edit: Our problem happened all of the time, regardless of whether or not we were using any image effects. Hopefully this workaround will work for you even though your problem is a little different.