Bad company 2 problem

Leeroy123 · 13 Mar 2010 at 23:47

Im getting these odd white/black squares flashing up during play. I get these on no other games so am a little stumped as you how to fix it. I play on 16x aa and everything on max. shouldnt be a problem. But these flashes are making my new game totally unplayable. I use the nvidia 295. play games like crysis warhead, codmw2, fallout 3 etc all on max no probls. but unable to play this game without these squares flashing up. I use the drivers that where removed but have tried other drivers too, none are any different. Don't know what else to try, i can't play the game with random squares flashing up all the time.
Anyone know how to stop this?

xen_ · 13 Mar 2010 at 23:50

Can't really help sorry, but a friend of mine had the same problem on a 8800gt, so maybe it's a nvidia issue that might be fixed with the next drivers.

5abr3 · 13 Mar 2010 at 23:50

Have you tried lowering any of your settings (one at a time) to see if it goes away? Might be helpful to diagnose what's happening!

Leeroy123 · 13 Mar 2010 at 23:55

yeah ive tried lowering aa and af to the very lowest and its the same mate.

arc@css · 14 Mar 2010 at 00:27

Is it possibly due to an o/c on your video card?

Leeroy123 · 14 Mar 2010 at 00:29

i have done a slight overclock on my card using evga precision, but even with the overclock removed it does the same mate.

arc@css · 14 Mar 2010 at 00:34

Your card isn't over heating is it?

Does it do this in any other games?

Flibbles · 14 Mar 2010 at 00:36

I think I know what you're on about with these squares, I had the same problem though I have an ATI 5850. The only solution for me was to either play at 8x AA or none at all. This was in single player though and I've yet to test the settings in MP.

Leeroy123 · 14 Mar 2010 at 00:38

not overheating at all mate no, at a good 40 degrees. and whatever aa i play on with this game it still does the same

RBL · 14 Mar 2010 at 00:45

I have seen black and white squares all over my screen when I overclocked my GPU too much

Leeroy123 · 14 Mar 2010 at 06:36

its not the overclock mate, its very slight. funny thing though, the squares are only flashing up on certain maps?

Swifty55 · 14 Mar 2010 at 09:40

Have you forced the game to run in DX9?

Aloreth · 14 Mar 2010 at 10:39

I had the same problem, used the widows 7 auto driver update on my graphics card and it works fine

Mullins · 14 Mar 2010 at 14:33

I'm suffering from the same issue, but not as severely as you describe, I have one white pixel in the bottom right hand edge of my screen, its not there in other games, it doesn't appear in the game menu, and it doesn't seem to be temperature related. I am running the 196.21 drivers and an evga GTX 295.

marc512 · 14 Mar 2010 at 16:01

I would suggest turning vsync and AA of but you probably already tried that

Leeroy123 · 14 Mar 2010 at 16:34

yeah marc i did already try that, right well ive fixed the problem . its about 99 percent gone and you guys wont belive what was causing it on this game. Windows 7 Aero!! With that running in the background it was causing that game to have those annoying flashing squares. I get maybe 2 square flashes now per map which i can live with. Mullins im using the driver which nvidia removed from there site the other week, tried the 196.21 driver. the newer one gives a slightly better performance. I get no problems with that driver so i don't want to remove it. Swift dx 9 and 10 did exactly the same thing before working this out. thanks for the replies lads. hope this info helps some people out too.

arc@css · 14 Mar 2010 at 16:51

Glad you got it sorted.

Leeroy123 · 14 Mar 2010 at 17:35

silly windows 7 lol

mmj_uk · 14 Mar 2010 at 17:39

It's not aero it seems to be a problem with ATI's drivers (no surprise there).

There's a thread about here:
http://hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1500166

If you select 1x or 8x MSAA it doesn't do it just 2x and 4x for some reason.

EDIT: If NVidia owners are getting it too then maybe it's an engine issue.

mmj_uk · 14 Mar 2010 at 17:39

Mullins said:
I'm suffering from the same issue, but not as severely as you describe, I have one white pixel in the bottom right hand edge of my screen, its not there in other games, it doesn't appear in the game menu, and it doesn't seem to be temperature related. I am running the 196.21 drivers and an evga GTX 295.

Everybody has that it's normal as far as this game goes.