Graphical issues

[lemming3k]

I seem to have some slight issues with the graphics (haven't had any problems with the first M&B) - I will post a screenshot when I can to show what I mean but if I have it on medium or higher, despite the fact it lists the performance as 149% there are some issues of sky appearing on the ground, peoples legs underneath the ground etc.
On low it seems to be fine, but I wonder if I'm missing out a little. Any ideas which setting I have to tweak to combat this?

 

[Karel]

I have the same thing, with battle sizzer and I wonder if it has something to do with.

I hate that because my configuration would handle more than 500 soldiers easily on the battlefield but I have this bug, which includes:

some models become invisible, in " battle " and on the map again.
The skybox is ****ed and takes the form of what was there before you move the camera. That can be psychedelic. Also, the menu on the bottom in invisible and all..
To fix it in game as I don't have a solution, a press echap then back in the game, some problems are fixed. Then I go the a village/town/castle and enter a scene, I do it multiple times and finally there's no strange artifacts anymore. But it can come back during a fighting scene.... During a tournament for instance. Invisible weapons. I have to look at my enemies hands to know what they have and how they're gonna attack...


By the way, everything is to max and no framerate drop. My hardware is totally able to handle that game with battle sizzer ( ATI 5870 2Go vram, 4Go OCZ DDR2 @1066 mhz, Intel dual core e8500 OC @ 4.2 ghz, a motheboard which handle everything and all )

 

[lemming3k]

I should add my specs - from memory I have a dual core AMD 5600+, Radeon 4670HD card, 4GB ram which I think is DDR3, more than adequate motherboard and PSU.

 

[Treebeard]

Warband 1.131 and ATI Catalyst drivers 10.7 and 10.8 (the most recent ones) have the graphical distortion and invisible texture issues.

Try uninstalling your ATI Catalyst Install Manager (express uninstall) and then install an older version (10.3, 10.4, 10.5 are the ones that work best with Warband at the moment. 10.6 also works).

If you have any previous ATI drivers from before on your PC, you can find them in the root directory under ATI support of your hard drive. For example (10.3):
C:\ATI\Support\10-3_vista64_win7_64_dd_ccc_wdm_enu

If you don't have any previous drivers you can find them online in the AMD drivers archives.

 

[Karel]

Meh....  I won't take the last drivers just because of that. Warband is not the only game I play and I don't see why I should take an older version of my drivers to play it.

I will wait a patch... I hope something is planned for that. Are the devs aware?

 

[Treebeard]

Meh....  I won't take the last drivers just because of that. Warband is not the only game I play and I don't see why I should take an older version of my drivers to play it.

I will wait a patch... I hope something is planned for that. Are the devs aware?

Well, on the bug forum the developers are classifying this issue as "False Alarm" (so far).

See bug ID 2965, 2999 and 3004.

 

[Treebeard]

I've now installed the 10.9 drivers (from 10.4) and the 10.9 drivers yield distortions and invisibile textures with Warband 1.131, just like 10.7 and 10.8.

I think everybody who has these issues need to go to the bug forum http://bugs.taleworlds.com/ and let them know in there.

Use Bugid 2965, 2999 and/or 3004 for notifying and making this high priority issue known to the developers.

 

[Karel]

Thanks, dude, I will post in.

 

[lemming3k]

Hmm, will check what version I'm running when I get home and post a bug report. Can't go to an older CCC though as that causes issues with other games.

 

[Karel]

Also, do you people realized that steam as a tool now to update AMD/ATI drivers for you? I already had the last driver and catalyst and he checked and downloaded a new one so I guess the driver changes a bit with steam. I'm gonna test it now.

 

[lemming3k]

Yeh that happened to me the other day, I wondered where that driver download had come from. Hasn't solved any issues though, and I'm dreading loading other games which I've had issues with - took ages to get them all set up.

Haven't forgotten about the bug report - just been exceedingly busy at home lately and have only logged on to the game to relax for a bit not bug test.
EDIT - finally posted a report. Hopefully can find a solution.