Re: Z-fighting/flickering around shorelines

by 2042isNotBF
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Z-fighting/flickering around shorelines

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HI there,

I was told to post in here by EA Customer Experience (chatting to Sonam) regarding an issue I have and was told that the specialist team would get back to me as soon as possible as there is a priority note on my account...

Just some background info first:

I have a brand new PC.
Specs are:
Windows 8.1 (64 bit)

Overclocked Intel Core i5-4690k Quad Core (3.50GHz upto 4.60GHz) with Corsair H60 Hydro Series High Performance CPU Cooler

16GB KINGSTON HYPER-X FURY DUAL-DDR3 1600MHz (2 x 8GB)

4GB NVIDIA GEFORCE GTX 970

120GB KINGSTON HYPERX 3K SSD, SATA 6 Gb/s (upto 555MB/sR | 510MB/sW)

2TB 3.5" SATA-III 6GB/s HDD 7200RPM 64MB CACHE

CORSAIR 750W CS SERIES™ MODULAR 80 PLUS® GOLD, ULTRA QUIET


I'm also using an AOC 144hz monitor which is connected using a DVi-D Dual link cable.


- BF4 is installed on the 2 TB hard drive.

- I installed the game via origin through download.

- I run the 64 bit version of the game, by using the x64 icon on the desk top

- The temperature of the GPU and CPU seem fine. I've monitored the GPU and CPU temps and they are within their normal limits and not over heating.

-Graphics card drivers are up to date.

- Latest patch of Bf4 is intalled

The problem I get is quite bad flickering around water textures, like around the coast/shore lines. It is most noticeable when flying jets, especially when I switch to the laser guided missile view. It's quite bad when I'm about 500 ft from the ground but the flickering decreases as I get closer to the ground.

I've done a bit of research and I'm lead to believe that this is z-fighting?

It also happens on land as well, on some building textures... like when looking through scopes. See the below screenshot when looking at wood paneling through tank scope

 

http://i109.photobucket.com/albums/n55/04odavid/BF4FLICKERING.jpg

 

I currently run BF4 on all the max settings, (full screen @ 144hz, 100% resolution with full field of view etc and all the settings on ulta) and I've played around with all the settings, such as refresh rate, resolution and graphics settings lowering them to medium/low and it still doesn't help.

Please can I have a definitive solution to this as it makes flying unbearable on water maps, as when I'm flying towards targets the flickering is so distracting, let alone looking through the laser guided scope.

Any questions, please ask.

Many thanks.

Olli

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Re: Z-fighting/flickering around shorelines

Hero (Retired)

Hi I am not kicking much due to selling a house and move but things to try.... First lower your settings in game and test if this does not help then try different driver older or beta or same driver but install it this way.....

 

Also this could be a setting for video card see all steps below...

 

Nvidia BF4 settings ....

First step open Nvidia Control panel under 3D settings go to Adjust image settings with preview

Pick use my preference and set it to performance and hit apply.

Next go to Manage 3D settings, Program settings tab and add BF4

Once BF4 is added in Program settings tab make sure all this is in place..

Ambient occlusion- not supported
Anisotropic filtering- use global settings off
Antialiasing - FXAA - not supported
Antialiasing- Gamma correction- use global settings on
Antialiasing-Mode - use global settings off
Antialiasing- setting - use global settings none
Antialiasing- Transparency - use global settings off
CUDA- GPU's - use global settings ALL
Maximum pre-rendered frames - Use the 3D application setting
Multi display /mixed GPU acceleration- set to what your display is
Power management mode- Prefer Maximum Performance
Shader Cache- use global settings on
Texture filtering - Anisotropic sample Opti.... - use global settings on
Texture filtering- Negative LOD bias - use global setting Allow
Texture filtering - Quality - use global setting Quality
Texture filtering - Trilinear optimization - use global settings on
Thread optimization - use global setting Auto
Triple buffering - use global settings off
Vetical Sync - use global settings off
Virtual Reality pre-rendered frames - use global settings 1

In game video settings right side set to custom and set everything to medium or low but last three turn them off ....

1-antialiasing deferred off
2-antialiasing post off
3-ambient occlusion off

on left side be sure vertical sync is off and under video... resolution scale to under 100 like 80 or 90 will up your FPS

 

Video Card drivers and doing a clean install.Credit goes to aT1C for his steps

Note.. with the video card driver it installs so much junk :womanfrustrated: and some of it just makes issues so if you want it this is how I do my driver now as I have my BF fully stable and I want to keep it this way .

First I only install two things from it 1- Graphics Driver 2- PhysX System they can keep the rest :womanlol: See steps below.

This is how you do a clean graphic driver clean install:Credit goes to aT1C for his steps
Start by downloading your graphic card drivers from here,


AMD; http://support.amd.com/en-us/download
NVidia; http://www.nvidia.com/Download/index.aspx?lang=en-us

Download the one you have and save it on desktop, you are going to need it!
After downloading the video card driver follow these instructions to the letter,

1- press windows button,

2- right click my computer,

3- press property’s, you will get a new window here.

4- in the new window click device manger on your left side of the screen, you will get another new window here,

5- you will see in the latest window a list of devices you have in your computer, click on the arrow beside Display driver and a small fall down menu will show you what kind of graphic card you have.

6- left click on your (graphic card name) so it’s highlighted in blue,

7- right click (graphic card name) and press property’s, you will get a new small window here,

8- in the new small window click on Drivers, you will see the name between the tabs,

9- in the driver menu click on uninstall, you will now get a really small window that ask you if you’re really sure that you want to uninstall you’re graphic card drivers,

10- click ok,

11- after you have uninstall you’re drivers restart you’re computer,

12- after you have started up your computer, click on your graphic card install file,

13- follow the instructions of your graphic card installer, Pick Custom / Advanced and only check off for Nvidia 1- Graphics Driver 2- PhysX System and for AMD card only check off display driver and catalyst control center.

14- when you have Install your graphic card drivers, restart / Reboot your computer,

15- you’re done.

 

 

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