graphics bugs with ATI 4800 series (4850/4870/4890)

[Horus]

For all ATI/AMD users on Win7 and if you play DX9 game(s) best driver is AMD Catalyst 12.4a hotfix driver

...this probably is from correct branch of driver
which probably again is really bad on any DX10-11 titles...

[KrIxXuS]

Nice one Horus ;-) will give that a blast over the weekend and report back.

[TheBlueYowie]

For all ATI/AMD users on Win7 and if you play DX9 game(s) best driver is AMD Catalyst 12.4a hotfix driver

Thank you, this fixed my issues.

[Dwarden]

http://forums.bistudio.com/showthrea...=1#post2153367
it came to my attention there is already solution available via commandline parameter -maxVRAM=
^ for everyone who is sure his game detect incorrectly amount of VRAM

[pusb365]

Hello, my first post here.

I recently downloaded Arma 2 Free. I opened it up and got horrible graphical glitches, as described by a lot of you in here. As it was the first time I had run the game, i presumed maybe my system just wasn;t up to it. But now I see others had the game running fine before, but have these issues now. I was just unfortunate that i didnt get a chance to play it before these issues kicked in!


Anyway, i have tried the hotfix download above, and still have the same problem

Has anyone else's problems not been solved by the Hotfix download?

[liquidcactus]

Hello !

Ok, ive got a serious problem playing dayZ that i havent been able to fix for 2 weeks since i purchased arma2 arrowhead on steam.

Now i have read through alot of replies on the thread here but all the suggestions i have tried have failed. I get a snow like white effect in the grass and trees depending on where my cursor is facing

I tried most of the ideas from suggestions on the dayz forum.. i have even dealt with Amd support center and those bastards couldnt help me either !

I tried all different catalyst drivers 12.3, 12.4, 12.6.. Its the Anti Aliasing that is the problem, when its turned off its fine.. but it looks like crap !! plus i have 2 sapphire cards but they arent connected/crossfired.. would this help ? perhaps the card is overheating maybe ?, ive spent alot of money on my new pc so i need AA on >:*(

So many people suggested adjusting in game graphics etc but this is useless when its the AA alone causing the bad, bad, bad, bad issue, its defenetly game destroying.. but yes other people have had the same graphics issue but what suggestions they had for me that helped them fix their problems hasnt help me at all so far !

please help... 2 weeks and havent even got close.. so so desperate..

thanx

ps i tried to upload a screenshot of the problem but its asks me for the URL ? what the f*** its on my desktop not the internet ? haha ok i guess ima noob then ??? >[COLOR="Silver"]

[domokun]

@liquidcactus: Welcome to the community! I think that you've correctly identified the problem - AA with your 7770.
As a 7870 owner, I can recommend a few steps to improve this:
1) Open ATi's Catalyst Control Centre and, under AI Texture Filtering, increase the Quality to High Quality (slide cursor to left).
2) Edit OA's config file (...\My Documents\ArmA2\Arma2OA.cfg), find AToC=7 and change it to AToC=0
3) Edit OA's config file, change PPAA=0 to PPAA=3
4) Set Video Memory to Default, leave AA disabled, increase AF to Very High, set Shadows to High and set Post-Proc to Low
5) Ensure you're running the latest beta patch
Together these should help getting the game running smoothly but looking purdy.
Let us know how you get on.
If you're interested in more tweaks, check-out these tried and tested optimisations:
http://forums.bistudio.com/showthrea...66#post2081466

[liquidcactus]

well thanx for the fast reply but none of those options worked for me..i had already tried most of them the thing is i really want AA turned on.. but its really starting to seem that it cant be possible > im so so so so so so so unhappy about this f**King ongoing problem, defently nvidia in the future !

the thing that really f***ing scares me is will this happen with arma3 ? same engine i heard .... waste of 400 f***ing dollars for x 2 sapphire 7770 !

ok now im ranting time to stop ^__^

oh and thanx again for the help.. & any future help 2 of course

and also i cant find this ppaa thing u said to set.. i found the atoc ? it wasnt in any of those files

a very frustrated cactus

[SouthSaturnDelta]

Hi all,

I too had major gfx glitches with strange shapes popping up and certain textures being transparent but one of the above listed tweaks and fixes solved anything.

I've resolved the issue by uninstalling current ati drivers and installing an older ati catalyst v 12.1



I'm working away from home and using an older laptop with hd3650 gfx and these newer ati drivers have caused merry havok with all my BIS games.

Hope this helps out anyone using an older mobile gfx card like me.


All the best,

SSD

Hello, my first post here.

I recently downloaded Arma 2 Free. I opened it up and got horrible graphical glitches, as described by a lot of you in here. As it was the first time I had run the game, i presumed maybe my system just wasn;t up to it. But now I see others had the game running fine before, but have these issues now. I was just unfortunate that i didnt get a chance to play it before these issues kicked in!


Anyway, i have tried the hotfix download above, and still have the same problem

Has anyone else's problems not been solved by the Hotfix download?

[GTnik]

I have the same problem on HD 7870
Downloading hotfix...