Huge artifacts in BF2

tres · 6 Aug 2008 at 12:55

Thought i'd give BF2 a shot...

Installed it, but when playing the game, huge polygon shapes on the screen.. Sometimes playable, sometimes they're coming out of my gun and i can't see a thing!

Q6600
Asrock 4core dual sata
2gb DDR2 ram
256mb 3850

GPUz shows card goes upto 57 degrees at load

Updated to latest ATI drivers, as well as latest BF2 patch, still no luck

Any ideas?

KNiVES · 6 Aug 2008 at 12:57

If it's Vista, you're out of luck.

The Battlefield series have a whole lot of glitches and oddities when working with Vista. EA Support will go as far as to strictly deny you any help or advice if you approach them over it.

domthecondom · 6 Aug 2008 at 12:58

OH EA has the BEST i mean sorry...worst support you will ever get, I have had a lot of problems running BF games on Vista =/

Zefan · 6 Aug 2008 at 13:01

I've been playing BF2 on Vista for the past day or two and it's been fine.

If you've got overclocked hardware then it's most likely that, BF2 doesn't like it one bit.

tres · 6 Aug 2008 at 14:45

It's XP Professional 32bit!

Nothing at all overclocked

robbi187 · 6 Aug 2008 at 14:50

have you any other glitches on any other games? What size monitor do you have? and at what resolution are you running?

tres · 6 Aug 2008 at 14:53

Bioshock etc works perfectly

Only a 17" monitor, tried it at every resolution with artifacts in all of them

all settings in CCC are default

robbi187 · 6 Aug 2008 at 14:56

trescodrucey said:
Bioshock etc works perfectly

Only a 17" monitor, tried it at every resolution with artifacts in all of them

all settings in CCC are default

Have you tried a re-install? what patch are you running?

tres · 6 Aug 2008 at 14:57

have re-installed, the latest (1.41?)

robbi187 · 6 Aug 2008 at 14:59

yes thats the latest patch, what about your drivers? Did you uninstall first and then reinstall the drivers?

tres · 6 Aug 2008 at 15:01

i went straight from auto-install drivers when the card was installed, to downloading the latest ones from ati website

they seemed to install fine without a hitch

robbi187 · 6 Aug 2008 at 15:03

try uninsatlling them and reinstalling them, have you got any screenshots so we can see what sort of gfx errors they are?

n1kunj · 6 Aug 2008 at 15:14

Did you clear the cache when you uninstalled (delete the C:\Documents and Settings\Nikunj\My Documents\Battlefield 2\mods\bf2)? Problems with this have been known to cause glitches like shiny sandbags, so I don't see why they couldn't cause artifacts and other corruption.

tres · 6 Aug 2008 at 15:20

robbi187 said:
try uninsatlling them and reinstalling them, have you got any screenshots so we can see what sort of gfx errors they are?

will do at 5pm

Thank you for all your help so far

robbi187 · 6 Aug 2008 at 15:50

trescodrucey said:
will do at 5pm

Thank you for all your help so far

no problem m8

bluetech · 6 Aug 2008 at 15:57

Is it an asus card? I know that they install a "video enhancer" with the original CD that causes similar issues, updating drivers wont resolve. It's in device manager and can be un-installed.

Just a thought

tres · 6 Aug 2008 at 16:12

it's a HIS card

tres · 6 Aug 2008 at 17:32

It's driving me mad! Alt-tabbing out of the game gets rid of it for a second, then it's back

ins0mn1ac · 6 Aug 2008 at 18:03

Try setting the process affinity to one core.

kdd · 6 Aug 2008 at 22:14

Try earlier drivers. When I had an ati card a while back some driver sets would produce the gfx errors the pics show.