distorted textures and disappearing objects

[ragor]

When i first got the game it ran relatively smooth with the occasional hiccup and fps drop. So to fix this i decided to update the drivers...from an earlier omega drivers to ati catalyst 5.7.

i ran battlefield and after a short time objects such as tanks and trees started to disappear or blink. then the texture of buildings, grass and vehicles changed to a multi colored mess which made gameplay difficult.

i rolled back to the previous drivers then tried newer omega drivers and attempted using the 2.5.6 ngo drivers. all showing the same problem
i also tried reinstalling battlefield 2 and tweaking with the settings all to no avail

Pentium 4 2.80c
1.5gb pc3200 ram
gigabyte radeon 9800 pro
help. thx

[scott123]

This is a known bug (at distance). If its at short distance, then that is something else.

If its the 1st one, everybody has it, and I hope Dice fixes it.

[ragor]

heres some screenshots

[scott123]

Wow, that looks downright bad, not sure what's going on there?

BUMP

[jmuduke]

You aren't overclocking are you? Make sure the fan on your Vid Card is spinning that looks like an overheating problem.

[S-N-Killer]

That looks like what happened to my 9800 pro when the power went out during a storm.when I turned the comp back on had bad or missing textures. Ati said the memmory went bad on my vid card .

[ragor]

i'm pretty sure it isnt an over-heating problem since i have an arctic cooling vga silencer with some arctic silver 5 under it.
i also have a fan blowing at full blast into the case.

[5bjoshua]

Roll back to Catalyst 5.6, that fixed this problem for me, if you have let me no. 5.6 should fix it

[5bjoshua]

if you have go on the gigabyte site and find the recommended driver, like mines sapphire so i have 5.4, and runs great!

[Furocious_Spoon]

Did you uninstalled the old drivers first before installing the newer drivers.
Im using 5.7 at the moment and have no trouble with it yet!

[5bjoshua]

You most likely have a x600 to x800 series graphics card then, i think its something to do with the High Definition feature on the latest driver, 9xxx series dont support it, i think????

[TheSmisker]

I concur with the poster

I too have experienced this but not as bad as you.
I get it mostly when Grenades explode around me and I stand nxt to a shooting tankzorz.

You know, when the screen is supposed to go all blurry and such, but I get green blocky textures instead, sometimes red.

I have tried uninstalling the game several times, the drivers, updating and all to no avail...

Anyone have a good tip, I'd be more than happy.

[5bjoshua]

if you get green and red artifacts that overclocking too far!

[ragor]

5bjoshua thanks for the advice

i went to the gigabyte webpage and downloaded the 5.5 catalyst drivers which
seemed to do the trick now it runs nice and smooth

i also deleted the shader cache in the C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\My Documents\Battlefield 2\mods\bf2\cache

[5bjoshua]

Cool hopefully that'll fix it did for me 'touch wood'!