Tomb Raider - Tressfx flickering in crossfire

Scout

So yeah, I'm using two 7950's in crossfire and the shadows from the hair flicker a lot in crossfire mode, hair also flickers all over the place sometimes.

Using latest beta drivers, anyone else with the same problem ?

Eastcoasthandle · 03-05-2013, 17:53 | posts: 1,512

You have a video you can post?

Zurvan · 03-05-2013, 18:05 | posts: 41

I was also getting some hair flickering when turning the camera around till the point Lara is almost bald lol.

Tressfx is really performance hungry so I hope AMD releases a beta driver soon.

Plug2k · 03-05-2013, 18:57 | posts: 904 | Location: Uk

there is defo performance issues in crossfire with 4xaa all maxed out but 2xaa all maxed out is much better like double the frames lol but the game has annoying random moments of pure slowdown during ingame fmv`s, think its to do with tressfx issue.

Scout · 03-05-2013, 19:37 | posts: 96

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Originally Posted by Eastcoasthandle

You have a video you can post?

That would take ages since my upload is crappy, it's basically flickering shadows, have to turn off either crossfire or tressfx, but without crossfire it's unplayable..

On my setup with mild overclock I'm having 90%~ gpu usage from both cards with everything on ultra + tressfx and fsaa @ 2560x1440 & 60fps vsync

teleguy · 03-05-2013, 20:03 | posts: 1,020

Like this?

Scout · 03-05-2013, 20:08 | posts: 96

yeah, but the shadow in that gif is not flickering/blinking

hair glitches sometimes like that but not often

Kaaskop · 03-05-2013, 20:14 | posts: 15

Well it seems that the second GPU cannot keep up with DirectCompute calculations that are needed for TressFX.

Did some testing and at 720p and 1080p with 1 card it's fine, on 1080p it's only a 10fps loss even compared to "normal" hair.
With BOTH cards, at 720p it's fine-ish, only a little flickering and such, but on 1080p the horror starts. Massive slowdowns, massive flickering and benchmarked, 20 fps difference compared to "normal" hair.

So GG AMD, they created an AMD feature that doesn't work with AMD CrossfireX feature...

1 card @720p: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=chTDhBr_KdU
2 cards @720p: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qE_NYPDtvfc
2 cards @1080p: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GWYHjhqy4WI

Sketche · 03-05-2013, 23:06 | posts: 19

I have dual 7970's and this isn't happening. Running the benchmark, at least.

BIGGRIMTIM · 03-06-2013, 03:33 | posts: 27

I have dual 7970's and this happening for me with latest 13.2 beta 7 drivers.

scatterlogical · 03-06-2013, 13:53 | posts: 1

I'm experiencing this problem. Twin 7850's.
The hair is flickering all over the place like a caffeinated child with tourette's.
When the camera is way back, it settles right down and is quite fine, but closeups can get really nasty, even killing the framerate.
Seems that there's a problem in how the hair is synced frame-to-frame - using RadeonPro, I switched the crossfire mode to supertile, and this helps a lot - but still not completely. Also, disabling vsync helps too, but even so it still flickers a little close-up.
If I alt-enter and run the game in a window (disabling crossfire in the process) tada, totally fixed. Of course this nixes my lovely framerate.

Wag · 03-06-2013, 15:10 | posts: 34

Yeah, I have the same flickering problem on my tri-crossfire 6950 setup. 13.2 beta 6. Not only that, it appears that only 1 GPU out of 3 is supported (or at least seems that way). I would have waited to buy it had I known. It runs pretty crappy on my 4.4GHz setup.

I'm really getting tired of the lagging tri-crossfire support. I'm going to jump ship pretty soon and probably go Nvidia.

kenzt · 03-06-2013, 18:08 | posts: 18 | Location: Portugal

Having the exact same problem with TressFX. Sometimes Lara's ponytail vanishes hahah

John Dolan · 03-06-2013, 19:10 | posts: 2,166 | Location: uk nottingham

Im getting this with my 6990 plus 6970 also the game crashes often when using it but the crashing stopped with hair set to normal.

Sketche · 03-07-2013, 03:35 | posts: 19

Strange.

Maybe do a completely clean install of 13.2's betas?

I haven't had a problem (not doubting that you guys are, of course)

Enmity · 03-07-2013, 05:15 | posts: 1,119 | Location: New Zealand

I had this problem too but thats coz i was playing with vsync enabled. Disabled it and the flicker stopped. Try disabling vsync guys

John Dolan · 03-07-2013, 08:14 | posts: 2,166 | Location: uk nottingham

Mine has always been disabled.

Offler2 · 03-07-2013, 08:17 | posts: 153

Please try this:

Tomb Raider:
Flickering
http://cdn.overclock.net/e/e4/e43a8d...ors_beta3.jpeg
Status: to be verified.
Possible fix: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2670838
Links to discussion:
http://www.overclock.net/t/1351650/w...#post_19451944

http://www.overclock.net/t/1351650/w...#post_19455494

And tell it if also helped...

The Creator · 03-07-2013, 09:13 | posts: 109

I have the same flickering issue on my 6990 with 13.2 beta7 drivers.

John Dolan · 03-07-2013, 20:00 | posts: 2,166 | Location: uk nottingham

Very good game this im enjoying playing it very much so its a shame about this hair problem as its a strong reason I bought the game certainly its a strong selling point so its a shame ive nearly finished the game and not been able to see it in all its glory.

Fox2232 · 03-07-2013, 21:36 | posts: 391 | Location: EU, CZ, Brno

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Originally Posted by John Dolan

Very good game this im enjoying playing it very much so its a shame about this hair problem as its a strong reason I bought the game certainly its a strong selling point so its a shame ive nearly finished the game and not been able to see it in all its glory.

Right after you run/jump through falling bridge to fall in some hole and to end up in water (and avoiding being impaled). There in cut scene I had quite problem to distinct those hairs from real ones.

Otherwise they are just nice thing to have in game. Sometimes bit wild, sometimes they split into separate hairs so much I feel she just got electrified.
But in general it's really good work, if they add some stickiness chance so they are not so "live" they would be very close to real hair physics.

But on single card they are even in worst moment much better than Alice's Hairs controlled by PhysX.

And as someone mentioned that so much shooting is not TR... I remember pretty well time when Lara had in TR 1 dual Magnums, in TR 2 she upgraded to M16 and grenades, and finally in TR 3 she eventually used Rocket Launcher

And here, She and that Bow, it's just very enjoyable combat.

John Dolan · 03-08-2013, 00:58 | posts: 2,166 | Location: uk nottingham

Im stuck at the minute with a end boss maybe end of the game but its been very good gaming much o fun.

I do know what the super hair looks like I ran the game with it on for the first half hour or so but the flickering spoiled the game and made it crash often so just turned it off which cured most of the crashes.

Im running highest settings and I think the benchmark was like 98 fps avg and with the super hair it was 50 odd so it was a big fps hit but still playable fps on my cards but I spoiled by the flickering.

The Mac · 03-08-2013, 01:12 | posts: 1,418 | Location: USA

We should call it Uberhair....like Ubersampling in witcher2...

turn it on and watch your framrates plummet....

lol

John Dolan · *Last edited by John Dolan; 03-08-2013 at 03:23.*

My benchmark with highest settings and Uberhair

Low 6.7

Avg 68.2

Highest 89.3

Just finished the game very good game this well worth the money imo.

The Mac · 03-08-2013, 06:51 | posts: 1,418 | Location: USA

was that low noticeable?