Landscape goes black, transparent

[Maasawa]

Pardon me if this issue has been addressed here already (I've seen it mentioned on another forum, but can't find it here), I'm a BF2 newbie playing online and single player. Several times in multiplayer I've brought up the close-up screen for the USMC Special Forces rifle gunsight only to see a big, black square. Sometimes the square will go away, but then sections of the landscape will go completely black, flashing on and off, sometimes revealing scenery otherwise hidden by the foreground. Sometimes the screen will freeze for several (long) seconds.

I've also encountered this problem when looking through the Stinger and Phlanax AA gunsights.

Sometimes Escaping to the main game menu and returning will fix it, sometimes not.

Any thoughts?

Thanks.

-- Dasharatha

Playing BF2 1.02 at 1280x1024x32@85Hz
Intel Pentium 4 640 HT 3.20 GHz
Windows XP Pro SP2
1GB Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM at 533MHz (2x512M)
256MB PCI Express x16 ATI Radeon X850 XT PE
DirectX 9.0c
ViewSonic P95f+ 19 inch Ultrabrite CRT Monitor
Sound Blaster Audigy2 ZS
Creative I-Trigue 2.1 3300 Speakers
Saitek Gamers Keyboard USB
Thrustmaster Top Gun Fox 2 Pro USB joystick

[Leki]

Re: Landscape goes black, transparent

used to have the same probs untill i got another GB of ram...now i have 2GB and no probs :)

[Maasawa]

Re: Landscape goes black, transparent

used to have the same probs untill i got another GB of ram...now i have 2GB and no probs :)

Wow! Another GB of RAM is the solution? When will it ever stop?!

I have another issue I've seen reported here: My rifle sound disappears sometimes, leaving only the tinkling of shell casings when I fire. :hmm:

-- Dasharatha

[imported_=NAA=SHADOW]

Re: Landscape goes black, transparent

used to have the same probs untill i got another GB of ram...now i have 2GB and no probs :)

not true i have 2 gb od ddr ram and i still get trans ground.... everything goes that way for me though people vehicles u name it i can only see smoke and a few trees and the water underground... and a few windows on vehicles.... it gets really irritating cuZ i have to restart the whole game to fix it and by then the server fillz up and i lost my spot of a good server!

[CaptainMoustache]

Re: Landscape goes black, transparent

it's a video card drivers error

either rollback or update

[Maasawa]

Re: Landscape goes black, transparent

it's a video card drivers error

either rollback or update

I don't think it's just a driver issue. I currently have the latest drivers installed for my 256MB PCI Express x16 ATI Radeon X850 XT PE (Catalyst 5.9 drivers for Windows XP), plus I've played BF2 1.02 with two other driver versions as well, and in each case I've experienced some instance of the black/transparent landscape. Fortunately the glitch is usually transitory and clears up after a few minutes. It nearly always occurs in one of the Chinese maps--Dragon Valley and/or Daqing Oilfields, maybe.

[Leki]

Re: Landscape goes black, transparent

not true i have 2 gb od ddr ram and i still get trans ground.... everything goes that way for me though people vehicles u name it i can only see smoke and a few trees and the water underground... and a few windows on vehicles.... it gets really irritating cuZ i have to restart the whole game to fix it and by then the server fillz up and i lost my spot of a good server!

your saying that its "not true" that i got 2 GB of ram and my problem went away?....how would you know.....with all details on hight and high resolution bf2 uses more than a GB of ram.....so thats why it solved it for me as i was running out of memory.....i know this has solved it for others too.

[Red Leader]

Re: Landscape goes black, transparent

its is 100% driver error, ill guarentee it.

[vulcan]

Re: Landscape goes black, transparent

its is 100% driver error, ill guarentee it.

Wrong.

Sounds like a graphics card starting to overheat. Take the side off your case.