BlacKSmurF
01-07-2006, 01:09 AM
Radeon 9800 Pro 128 MB
2.5 Gigs of RAM
Pentium 4 Processor
Whenever I play Battlefield 2, I get some flashing lime green, blue, black, and basically any other basic "Paint" color squares. They normally occur when I jump, there's an explosion, or any other particle effect; the squares start showing up about 5-10 minutes into the game, and only get worse as time goes on.
Here's what I've done so far to stop the problem:
A completely new reinstallation of Windows XP on a new, blank hard drive, with Battlefield 2 literally the first program installed.
Updating my Catalyst driver to version 5.13
Turning off my Catalyst driver
Changing my settings on my options tabNow, I've got about 1500 points, because I was playing with my settings all on medium, but my Dynamic Lighting and Lighting settings were on low. (Side note: 2x anti-aliasing). There were no flashing squares.
I had a weird video problem the first day of playing - missing textures - and tried lowering the settings to that to fix it. It turned out I had just been a ******* and forgotten to restart the computer. I was just happy I could play the game without any troubles.
Today I remembered that and upped my graphics - no graphical lag at all, but the problem was starting immediately into the game. I made a post (http://forum.eagames.co.uk/viewtopic.php?t=15501) over at the EA forums but they aren't that fantastic at helping out with graphics problems so I came here.
Anyways, since a clean reinstallation of Windows XP hadn't helped (had the same problem at the time of the missing textures), I knew it wasn't a driver problem, and since other games work fine, I know my video card isn't dying. I also noticed that whenever I changed the settings to try and fix the problem, it said it would optimize my shaders, but it never did. Clearing out my cache fixed that problem, but even with the shaders optimized, I still have the problem.
So I guess my question is... how do I stop these flashing squares?
They happen way too quickly to take a screenshot, but become frequent enough it's a big problem!
I was able to recreate exactly what the problem looks like in Microsoft Paint... here's the result:
http://img250.imageshack.us/img250/3658/screen000screwedup3gl.jpg
There's a few of these frames within a split second, occuring a lot in a short time period, like during an artillery strike.
There's sometimes black triangles stretching from the center to a screen edge.
Any ideas?
Thanks!
2.5 Gigs of RAM
Pentium 4 Processor
Whenever I play Battlefield 2, I get some flashing lime green, blue, black, and basically any other basic "Paint" color squares. They normally occur when I jump, there's an explosion, or any other particle effect; the squares start showing up about 5-10 minutes into the game, and only get worse as time goes on.
Here's what I've done so far to stop the problem:
A completely new reinstallation of Windows XP on a new, blank hard drive, with Battlefield 2 literally the first program installed.
Updating my Catalyst driver to version 5.13
Turning off my Catalyst driver
Changing my settings on my options tabNow, I've got about 1500 points, because I was playing with my settings all on medium, but my Dynamic Lighting and Lighting settings were on low. (Side note: 2x anti-aliasing). There were no flashing squares.
I had a weird video problem the first day of playing - missing textures - and tried lowering the settings to that to fix it. It turned out I had just been a ******* and forgotten to restart the computer. I was just happy I could play the game without any troubles.
Today I remembered that and upped my graphics - no graphical lag at all, but the problem was starting immediately into the game. I made a post (http://forum.eagames.co.uk/viewtopic.php?t=15501) over at the EA forums but they aren't that fantastic at helping out with graphics problems so I came here.
Anyways, since a clean reinstallation of Windows XP hadn't helped (had the same problem at the time of the missing textures), I knew it wasn't a driver problem, and since other games work fine, I know my video card isn't dying. I also noticed that whenever I changed the settings to try and fix the problem, it said it would optimize my shaders, but it never did. Clearing out my cache fixed that problem, but even with the shaders optimized, I still have the problem.
So I guess my question is... how do I stop these flashing squares?
They happen way too quickly to take a screenshot, but become frequent enough it's a big problem!
I was able to recreate exactly what the problem looks like in Microsoft Paint... here's the result:
http://img250.imageshack.us/img250/3658/screen000screwedup3gl.jpg
There's a few of these frames within a split second, occuring a lot in a short time period, like during an artillery strike.
There's sometimes black triangles stretching from the center to a screen edge.
Any ideas?
Thanks!