Graphics Turn Black

[Gunslinger145]

hope this doesnt happen to me, im planning to buy the X700pro.

[Canadian Bacon]

I have 2gigs of ram and it happens to me

Specs:

A64 3000+
2gb Pc3200 Hynix Ram
Sapphire Radeon X800XT
SB Audigy 2


Sometimes when this happens, I crash to desktop when the round finishes. Im also using the 5.6 omega drivers.

[_Hz_Spawnflagger]

I had the same problem. (Dell XPS, 3.2Ghz P4, ATI X800XT, 1Gb ram.)
I found the report on ATI's website and their workaround (set texture quality from high to medium) seems to have done the trick.

I would quite frequently (for no known reason) have the game freeze with either a black screen or garbled graphics, for a few seconds straight. Needless to say, I died 95% of the times this happened.

After lowering the settings a bit, everything runs smoother, and online play is much better. Before what I thought was network lag was just the graphics slowing things down.

Also, deleting all the subfolders from the "My Documents\Battlefield 2\mods\bf2\cache\" folder seemed to help get rid of black textures. This is where the "optimizing shaders" function actually caches the data.

Using medium instead of high quality textures also has the side effect of speeding up the time it spends "verifying client data". Used to take >30s, now takes <10.

I'm using the 5.7 catalyst drivers, though not the one with the .Net CCC crap.
(every version prior that I tried with the CCC it had a memory leak, and was generally ill-behaved)

hope that helps some people.

-Jason

[jmuduke]

I had this problem and I rolled back to the Catalyst 5.6 drivers and haven't had it since. I recommend using the official 5.6 drivers as the Omegas were causing me problems.