Massive graphics issues

[unmerged(140338)]

Right, just bought the game off of steam and i love it. except for the fact that some textures just dissapear for no particular reason. its usually important stuff too, like trees on the battle map that i inevitably run into, or the grass on the world map.

its rather frustrating, anyone else have the issue and a fix?

 

[Nikolai II]

I suggest you start a thread at the Taleworlds site as well - they are the makers of the game and might be able to answer better: http://forums.taleworlds.com/index.php?board=164.0

Meanwhile, have you tried different graphics qualities? Which graphics card are you using?

 

[unmerged(140338)]

Its an ATI Radeon HD 3870, i have pinned down the issue to involving directX 9, because it runs playably using directX 7, but i feel kinda shafted as the graphical improvement was what led me to shell out 30 bucks.

 

[Nikolai II]

You have no problems with other games?

It should be related to your gear somehow (at least partially) since I haven't seen any reports like that before. (So at least they are uncommon)

You are using the latest drivers and the last/latest DX9, right?

 

[unmerged(140338)]

yep everything in terms of that is square, and no other problems with any games

 

[COGlory]

Have you tried re-installing, and fiddling with your settings? My 3650 let me run on just about high with everything, so I don't think it's the game.

Also the invisible trees is an old standing bug, not related to graphics AFAIK.

 

[alarix]

In case you haven't solved this problem yet: the 10.7 ATI drivers caused similar problems for me, I had to switch back to 10.6 which fixed it. The 10.8 drivers are out now but I haven't tried them yet, so I don't know if ATI fixed the problem yet.

 

[Yodel]

no improvement with 10.8 drivers on my system.

 

[COGlory]

Use the 10.5, it's the most recent stable version, as far as I know. Lot's of problems with the 10.7 and 10.8

 

[unmerged(140338)]

downgraded to 10.5, works now.

 

[Nikolai II]

Great! Thanks, montfort94.

 

[COGlory]

Glad to hear!

 

[Novatheorem]

Having the same problem, but I just realized I'm running the 8.xxx driver package. Getting ready to update, but does anyone know if the game is stable on the 11.5.xxxx drivers or should I just get 10.5 while I can?

 

[Cabadrin]

Having the same problem, but I just realized I'm running the 8.xxx driver package. Getting ready to update, but does anyone know if the game is stable on the 11.5.xxxx drivers or should I just get 10.5 while I can?

Depends on your system and your card (not in any predictable pattern that I have seen) whether the most recent drivers will work. I've got the most recent Catalyst with an HD5570 card and everything is fine 90+% of the time, then I get a little world map tearing...which Alt-Tabbing out and back in fixes...and I'm on my way.

For pretty much guaranteed consistency, I'd recommend staying at 10.5 or 10.6 though...especially if you were using older drivers previously.