extreme visual artifacts

[elvisdumbledore]

I am experiencing a problem that I have not seen mentioned in any threads so far. I get extreme visual artifacts in the form of plans of random, striated color flickering through the scene.

They appear increasingly worse at higher resolutions, whether graphics settings are high or low, and regardless of whether vsync is enabled. They appear mostly frequently when there is splashing water or arcing electricity, like the first room.

The artifacts do not appear when when taking screenshots or movies with Fraps regardless of the resolution. They still appear when Fraps is not running. Also, They do not occur in any other recently released game, including Stalker, Fallout 3 and Mass Effect 2.

OS: WinXP
Processor: AMD Athlon 64 X2 3800+
Memory: 2048MB

Display
Video Card: NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT
Video Memory: 512.0 MB
Driver Date: 1/11/2010

Sound
Sound Card: SB X-Fi Audio
Driver Date:2/25/2008

[Huge Daddy]

That's nothing. My texture artefacts are so extreme that they cover the entire screen and I am forced to close BS2 altogether just to reset the graphics. It's really starting to get annoying.

It's almost like the camera itself says "Come here and stick yourself right on me all you pesky artefacts"

[complex]

I am experiencing a problem that I have not seen mentioned in any threads so far. I get extreme visual artifacts in the form of plans of random, striated color flickering through the scene.

They appear increasingly worse at higher resolutions, whether graphics settings are high or low, and regardless of whether vsync is enabled. They appear mostly frequently when there is splashing water or arcing electricity, like the first room.

The artifacts do not appear when when taking screenshots or movies with Fraps regardless of the resolution. They still appear when Fraps is not running. Also, They do not occur in any other recently released game, including Stalker, Fallout 3 and Mass Effect 2.

Exact same issue here. Windows 7 x64, Core i7 920, 6 GB, Radeon 5970, Catalyst 10.1.

I've found that I can fix the issue by disabling Catalyst AI but that effectively disables Crossfire and lowers my framerate. It also seems to go away when I run windowed mode (which also disables Crossfire).

Would be nice to be able to play at full framerate/full resolution.

[Church]

Exact same issue here. Windows 7 x64, Core i7 920, 6 GB, Radeon 5970, Catalyst 10.1.

I've found that I can fix the issue by disabling Catalyst AI but that effectively disables Crossfire and lowers my framerate. It also seems to go away when I run windowed mode (which also disables Crossfire).

Would be nice to be able to play at full framerate/full resolution.

Same Issue here as well. Like the post above me, I have been able to get it to stop giving me random texture/polygonal corruption when I disable multi-card rendering. But this is not ideal, as now the framerate is not playable What's interesting though, is that I am using Nvidia SLI, as opposed to his ATI Crossfire.

Seems like a multi-card problem to me, but the original post didn't say anything about SLI or Crossfire.

Specs:

OS: Win7 (64-bit)
Processor: Intel Core i7 950 3.06 GHz
Memory: 6 GB

Display
Video Card: 2x NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTS (in SLI mode)
Video Memory: 640.0 MB
Driver Date: 1/19/2010 (Official Nvidia 196.21)

Sound
Sound Card: Realtek ALC1200
Driver Date: 7/27/2009

[cancausecancer]

I have it also when I use Crossfire. I disable crossfire.

[Church]

I have it also when I use Crossfire. I disable crossfire.

...and that fixed it, yes?

[egrega1]

Refer to my post to fix (somewhat) the texture issues:

PC Texture - picture tearing temporary fix (Nvidia) here

http://forums.2kgames.com/forums/showthread.php?t=60554

Hope this helps.