Massive glitching

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Hello All. Downloaded Beta 2 today, but I encountered a game breaking problem.

 

While the main menu loads up fine, and all menus after that, when I actually get into the game, the screen is covered with hundrereds of twitching triangles and odd shapes - the screen glichtes out of control.

The game is playing fine, I can hear my demigod and hear him attacking and sometimes make out the edge of maps, but most of the screen is always covered.

 

Does anyone know of anything that might help?

 

My vid cards are radeon 4870s running crossfire

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Reply #1 from Stardock Forums Top

I have experienced a similar issue previously, although in my case it was related to the Video card being faulty/overheating moreso then the game i was playing. Perhaps you should check that you video cards are not overheating and perhaps run 3d benchmarks to ensure that your video card's are performing the way they should be.

 

Reply #2 from Demigod Forums Top

I actually just had my video cards replaced for a similar reason - they work fine for everything except Spore.

 

Spore actually has the same problem - but - the game doesn't even support the 4870

 

I really hope that isn't the problem. Does Gas plan to inlcude support for the radeon 4800 series? It's a fairly high end series.

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Reply #3 from Stardock Forums Top

I'm running a 4870 X2 and haven't had any similiar problems. What drivers are you using? I'm using Catalyst 8.1 ... by what I've read on the ATI forums the 8.11 and 8.12 drivers aren't as stable... Personally I've had issues when I tried the 8.11 and 8.12 drivers as well. (8.11 caused glitching in farcry 2, and hotfix only cleared part of it, 8.12 can sometimes disable a crossfire core or make a GPU fan idle even when under heavy load, the heat then could cause artifacting, or worse...)

Reply #4 from Demigod Forums Top

I was using the 8.11, and I just updated to the 8.12 driver about a half hour ago to see if it might fix the problem

 

You suggest rolling back to 8.1? I wonder if it has anything to do with crossfire.

Reply #5 from Stardock Forums Top

Try it with 8.1 and let me know how it goes... and yes, I'm think I remember the 8.12 issues heavily being crossfire related (X2's fall into that catagory as well)

Reply #6 from Demigod Forums Top

All the way to 8.1? There's been several updates after it, but before 8.11 or 8.12...

(I guess that's what you get for buying a card with only beta drivers)

 

 

Alright, tried rolling back to 8.1 and the problem persists. However, I'm not sue if the rollback was succesful - I removed/uninstalled Catalyst control center 8.12 and went to the radeon site and searched their older drivers. I found 8.1 and installed, but during the installiation it said that all drivers are up to date and it wouldnt install anything.

 

 

What I read on the forums it that the 9.1 patch is going to be some kind of saving grace that'll remove most of the issues radeon users have been having for the past 12 MONTHS. So many people are tired of it.

 

 

Reply #8 from Demigod Forums Top

Haha, 8.10! I thought it was odd for someone to still be using 8.1! They're different drivers you see.

I reinstalled 8.12 and tried turning of crossfire to see if it would help - no dice

 

Here's the specs:

   

Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU Q6700 @ 2.66GHz (4 CPUs), ~2.7GHz

8 gigs

640 GB

ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series

Generic PnP Monitor

Speakers (High Definition Audio Device)

 
   
   
   
 
Windows Vista™ Home Premium (6.0, Build 6001) Service Pack 1 (6001.vistasp1_gdr.080917-1612)
 
ASUS RAMPAGE FORMULA LGA 775 Intel X48 ATX
   
Reply #9 from Stardock Forums Top

That's odd... I'm assuming other games play fine without artifacting right?

...nice rig by the way!

Reply #10 from Demigod Forums Top

Heh, thank you! Built it over the summer.

 

Yeah, everything plays fine except spore (which I said technically isn't supported - though some other 4800 series users have it working for them) and the demigod beta

 

I used to have this problem with Fallout 3 and Farcry 2, but having my cards replaced and updating drivers fixed it

 

Now it's just these two. I understand this is the beta, so maybe the final won't have this problem. Sadly, it seems like a problem that's gonna exist.

 

I kinda blame Radeon. The drivers for these cards have been sub-par. I think they rushed these cards out too quick.

Reply #11 from Demigod Forums Top

Slumlord do you have your color depth set to 16-bit by any chance, I remember a bug like this was in supcom with 16-bit under some circumstances.

Reply #13 from Stardock Forums Top

Solution: Buy Nvidia :-)

Reply #14 from Demigod Forums Top

Ha. I have to admit, that every time I've had a problem a small thought would pop into my head:

 

"would I be having this problem with nvidia?"

 

I've been a long time buyer of ATI cards, and I think they give great products for great price

 

But this has been unnacceptable. I'm giving them til the 9.xx drivers, and if things don't pick up, I might just have to switch cards.

 

I guess this is a lost hope, but Im gonna ask if anyone else still has any advice?

 

Problem: Massive onscreen artifacting and glitching, while the game still technically functions

 

Video: Two radeon 4870 cards running crossfire