Crossfire Profile: Bad Company 2

Simply fix for these lines. They are the same problem as the flickering shadows.

Simply go into options, change vsync setting (if you have it on set it to off and vice versa), go back into the game, then go back into the options and change vsync back to the original setting and it will be fixed.

It may come back but for me it has only come back once so far, but I mainly use D3DOverrider and the runs perfectly smooth 60fps 95% of the time.

EDIT: I have actually uninstalled this new Application Profiles as it only adds a few xfire profiles and they are quite rubbish. To actual drivers have more performance improvements in themselves than in this.

Just one question? So since 10.2 have ALL the application profiles been separate to the driver? So without an Application profile installed does this mean I have no xfire profiles on my PC or are there still profiles within the driver set?

 

OK, I've turned on and off just about every setting and it still does it. It doesn't appear to be a specific setting causing it. It is the profile itself. If I remove the profile the problem goes away.

 

I have a feeling it is catalyst AI screwing everything up again and the profiles are good I will test and repost.

5870 crossfire

10.2 flickering

10.3 preview (good for 2 days then flickering)

10.3a official (good until crossfire profiles)

added crossfire profiles and then lines randomly appear

Cat AI just screws up everything imho, it has benefits but problems outweigh benefits.

 

not cat ai did fresh install excluding CCC and did same thing right after crossfire profiles.

 

Some guys on the Rage3D forums said to uninstall the profiles, driver, remove left overs with driversweeper and ccleaner and then install the drivers and profiles again.

I went through all that and it does not make a difference. The horizontal lines are still there.

 

This is a really odd issue.

Could someone try and Screenshot this phenomena ?

I mean I had the flickering textures with 10.3a but after the xfire profile they dissapeared to 99% ( had it once in 2 days and it dissapeared by itself then ).
So for me this profile is working as "intended", wich is odd since alot of people seem to have severe issues with it.

There has to be some common denominator here. I mean why does it work for me but not for others?

 

Hmm, I'll try 10.3a and see if I get lines or not.

 

This issue has nothing to do with flickering textures, this spesific issue has to do with multiple vertical lines.. These lines appear to be linked to dynamic lightning conditions, as they come and go as clouds come and go. You can stand perfectly still, and when lightning changes, the lines appear. Isla Innocentes is a good place to check it out, start on atacking side, where you have the two blackhawks...

 

As I said it is odd.

The new 10.3 profiles fixed the flickering for me but then somehow caused these lines for some.

Can't help to think it is some setting that I have off and others on, hence I thought about the HSAO, but I guess people already tried that.

 

If you run an OSD, I use ati tray tools and set it up to display GPU0% & GPU2% you can see corruption only happens when both cards hit 100%. This is why changing settings to cause lower usage gets rid all problems. The game doesn't always use 100%

This is what is going on with my system. :3eyes:

 

This is now a confirmed driver issue, and will be fixed, when is still undecided..

 

So are these 10.3a preview drivers going to the final set with just a WHQL certificate slapped on them, or will we get a newer driver version in the final 10.3's? Anyone know?

 

The 10.3 official is supposed to be these, just without some fixes and a WHQL stamp....

 

I have now been able to replicate these grey lines some people have ( I think ).

On the singleplayer level Upriver, just where you spawn if I look up into the sky at some spots, at certain angles ( where the AO is triggered in a special way ) I can make the grey horizontal lines to appear. But as soon as I move the mouse even 1mm in anyway the lines dissapear. It wasn't easy to replicate it but after a while of looking up in the sky triggering the AO to dimm the lights it apears again, it looks like if you where filming an old CRT monitor with a videocamera kinda, but more defined - grey 3-4 mm thick lines running up and down of the screen in a horizontal manner. Is this what you guys are seeing?

When I truned HSAO=true the problem was easier to replicate then when I had HSAO=false, so imo you guys need to turn that off. I also tried turning AF on and off and that didn't seem to have any impact at all, other then again verifying that that the ingame AF is NOT working at all, if you want AF it has to be forced via CCC and then you get real x16 AF and it has NO performance impact at all.

 

Thats because the profile is bugged not the drivers. You can reinstall it as many times as you like and the outcome will be the same. :3eyes:

 

Sorry if i am reviving a dying thread...

Have you guys found a solution yet? I notice last post was just before release of the official drivers. And, did you guys try the 10.3b? I still get them when i unable crossfireX. I do get less of them when i have Catalyst AI to advanced.

Now, on another topic, i saw it being mentioned that this only occurs at 100 load on all cards. Now, i am not sure if this is only the case for me, but when i OC higher than what i am allowed in Overdrive, (say using Afterburner or ATI OC Tool) i max gpu usage to about 60%. It happened with two or 3 prev driver releases, but have not yet tried it with the latest ones. It was a weird issue that caused my bench scores for crossfire and OC to be lower than stock Crossfire. Maybe adding a little OC will make our GPUs throttle down and therefore escape the lines.

(the vertical lines get pretty terrible for me on the snowy submarine base map)

 

My solution for the horizontal lines is this:

1) Load the game.
2) Change resolution to something else.
3) Change it back to the resolution I use.
4) Turn on Vsynch
5) Play without horizontal lines.

 

I never had any horizontal lines, I play with D3DOverrider and forced vsync and tripple buffer. Maybe that why?..

Anyway new profiles out that supposed to fix the problem for you.:

Below is a list of what will improve when a user installs the April 7 profile:

* Battlefield Bad Company 2 Fix - horizontal lines are no longer observed when running an ATI CrossFireX configuration
* Battlefield Bad Company 2 Fix - flickering and black square corruption is no longer observed when running on single card ATI Radeon products
* Forcing on Anti-Aliasing through ATI Catalyst Control Center is now supported in the following titles: Supreme Commander 2, Dirt2, Avatar and Battlefield Bad Company2 (single GPU configurations)
* StarCraft(r) II: Wings of Liberty beta on ATI Radeon™ 5800 products running in an ATI CrossFireX configurations : moving units near the edge of a cliff no longer causes them to fall because the height field is corrupted

http://www.rage3d.com/xmp/profiles/ATI_Catalyst_AppProfiles_Apr7.exe

 

I can confirm that these new profiles does indeed fix the horizontal lines also the flashing objects issue. Holding thumbs for a fix to this long loading of maps in BC2.

 

They are much better than anything previously, but still had a tiny bit of the same flicker, and much worse flicker in a single player cutscene.