Grass flickering?

Posted: Fri Aug 31, 2007 2:32 am

Ok.. recenetly i've been tryin to snipe noobs and the grass near me goes all flickering on and off and its getting really annoying.. I dunno whats wrong because i got good card n shit nothing fucked w/ my comp thats for sure.. but i dunno was thinking bout re-installing bf2 -Sigh-

If you got any ideas or some shit post it lol

Posted: Fri Aug 31, 2007 3:03 pm

my guess is that maybe your driver for the vid card might be outdated. Might want to check the manufacture site to see if there was an update. If that doesent work try toning down your graphics a bit.

Posted: Fri Aug 31, 2007 3:06 pm

Can't remember the option settings in BF2 very well.. But do you have the ability to change the depth of the textures ? I.E. 16,24,32 bit ?

If you do, try fiddling with them.. If not, well sorry for spam Smile

That might also be the cause.. I've seen it before, just not in BF2..

Secretary of Defense Joined: Feb 16, 2007 Posts: 2379

possibly your vid. ram or your normal ram is having trouble rendering the polys of the gras around you, maybe its a program i would try reinstalling it may fix it.

Posted: Fri Aug 31, 2007 4:08 pm

ive been seeing alot of weird glitchy shit lately too

Posted: Sat Sep 01, 2007 3:20 am

hmm... Well ill wait for a bit see what happens.. it doesnt do it all the time but i dunno..

Major General (MG) Joined: Sept 29, 2005 Posts: 1384

Jengaling wrote:

my guess is that maybe your driver for the vid card might be outdated. Might want to check the manufacture site to see if there was an update. If that doesent work try toning down your graphics a bit.

I think Jeng is right. I used to have the same thing when I first started BF2.

It was a driver / video card setting problem. I have downloaded many drivers trying to figure it out and some made it worse.

What did help was downloading a catalyst control center for your video card that lets you tweek setting to the max.

Make sure you have a RESTORE point saved on your comp before you change anything! ! !

Secretary of Defense Joined: Feb 16, 2007 Posts: 2379

well, the thing is, the driver issues wont happen unless theres a update(patch) for the game, since bf2 hasnt had a patch lately then the drivers needed for the game would be exactly the same, so it cant be that.(shouldn't be anyways)

Posted: Sat Sep 01, 2007 9:35 pm

Yeah... and i mean its worked fine since ive had the game... few months anyways... but now just grass flickering bull shit, only somtimes though but it sucks lol.

Brigadier General (BG) Joined: Feb 27, 2007 Posts: 1156

was thinking it was the the setting in bf2 at first, but it does sound like its a driver problem

if you could list the name of your vid card we can help you with the link, and if you dont know how to find that info we can help with that too.

Posted: Sun Sep 02, 2007 3:24 pm

well if this problem only arises some of the time, you might want to check your ram. You need at LEAST 1 gig of ram to play bf2(dirty plays with 500, dont know how he does it) Low ram can effect your performance in the game as well as your graphics.

Posted: Mon Sep 03, 2007 1:43 am

I got enough ram thats for sure.. but yea i dunno how to tell my vid card and shit lol

Secretary of Defense Joined: Feb 16, 2007 Posts: 2379

2 words, device manager

Private (E2) Joined: Sep 03, 2007 Posts: 2

If you have an nVidia GPU. . .

There is nothing wrong with your video card or driver. Read the .pdf release notes for the newest driver. This is a known issue and hasn't been addressed yet. Specifically related to the flickering grass.

http://us.download.nvidia.com/Windows/162.18/162.18_WinXP_ForceWare_Release_Notes.pdf

Issue for all GPUs

Page 17

Battlefield 2: Corruption and flickering occur in the grass when video
settings are set to High.[272027]

They will fix it. . . someday. I have it too.

Secretary of Defense Joined: Feb 16, 2007 Posts: 2379

who are u? lol

Private (E2) Joined: Sep 03, 2007 Posts: 2

I was googling about the grass problem and came upon your post and the release notes. I was trying to find a work around until it actually got fixed. No luck so far. I was just trying to be helpful.

Secretary of Defense Joined: Feb 16, 2007 Posts: 2379

oh well then thanks for your help man

Posted: Tue Sep 04, 2007 1:05 am

ok i went into device manager and got to my drivers and i hit update driver software, but it said its the best currently.. so i dunno guys