Black Dots Appearing on Terrain

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Rezza
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Black Dots Appearing on Terrain

Post by Rezza »

Hello everybody.

My issue began 2 days ago when my steam downloaded the latest 11.5 drivers for ATI. After i installed the drivers all games worked fine. The only difference could be seen in Project Reality.

Black dots kept appearing whenever i moved. The terrain had million black spots all over and it is increasingly and disturbingly annoying.

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What i did to fix the issue?

I uninstalled the 11.5 . Restarted . Installed 11.4. Did not work

I uninstalled the 11.4 . Restarted . Driver Cleaned AMD-ATI. Restarted. Installed 11.5. Didn't work.

I need your help with this.

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Here are my specs.

Manufacturer:
System manufacturer
Processor:
AMD Phenom(tm) II X4 945 Processor (4 CPUs), ~3.0GHz
Memory:
4096MB CORSAIR DDR3 1333Mhz RAM
Hard Drive:
1.75 TB
Video Card:
Sapphire Radeon HD 4850 Toxic Series
Monitor:
LG 19 LCD
Sound Card:
Speakers (Logitech USB Headset)
Speakers/Headphones:
Creative 2.1
Keyboard:
Logitech Illuminated
Mouse:
Razer Lachesis 4000 dpi Phantom White
Mouse Surface:
Razer Goliathus
Operating System:
Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit (6.1, Build 7600) (7600.win7_rtm.090713-1255)
Motherboard:
Asus M4A79T Deluxe
Computer Case:
Gigabyte Poseidon 310
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saXoni
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Re: Black Dots Appearing on Terrain

Post by saXoni »

Try to delete your cache folder content. My Documents -> Battlefield 2 -> Mods -> BF2 -> Cache.
Rezza
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Re: Black Dots Appearing on Terrain

Post by Rezza »

I already deleted my cache after every restart. Thanks for the suggestion anyway :)

I just reinstalled Battlefield 2 and Project Reality completely and deleted the Battlefield 2 Folder on my documents entirely and the problem still persists.

I think i might need some medevac on this.
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karambaitos
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Re: Black Dots Appearing on Terrain

Post by karambaitos »

i had the same problem it got fixed after i enabled catalyst AI and put it on standard
i also reinstalled the DX9 from the BF2 CD after, i did both im not sure if reinstalling DX9 helps, since i didnt go in game after enabling catalyst AI, but it got fixed so i cant complain.

P.S new ATI drivers are such ****.
There is only one unforgivable lie That is the lie that says, This is the end, you are the conqueror, you have achieved it and now all that remains is to build walls higher and shelter behind them. Now, the lie says, the world is safe.? The Great Khan.

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Rezza
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Re: Black Dots Appearing on Terrain

Post by Rezza »

karambaitos wrote:i had the same problem it got fixed after i enabled catalyst AI and put it on standard
i also reinstalled the DX9 from the BF2 CD after, i did both im not sure if reinstalling DX9 helps, since i didnt go in game after enabling catalyst AI, but it got fixed so i cant complain.

P.S new ATI drivers are such ****.

Did all the following nothing helped. Trying to reinstall 11.5 now maybe that will work with the new DX updates now.
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Rezza
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Re: Black Dots Appearing on Terrain

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I checked everything on the options. I reinstalled 11.5. Nothing helped the only thing that fixes the problem is putting terrain on low.

Any other suggestions i need it on high :D
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karambaitos
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Re: Black Dots Appearing on Terrain

Post by karambaitos »

you could try turning hardware acceleration off in windows, it might help

right click>screen resolution>advanced settings>troubleshoot>change settings
it should be in there.
since im putting random solutions out there
try putting mipmap level on quality instead of high quality (IDK but worth a shot)
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There is only one unforgivable lie That is the lie that says, This is the end, you are the conqueror, you have achieved it and now all that remains is to build walls higher and shelter behind them. Now, the lie says, the world is safe.? The Great Khan.

40k is deep like that.
AfterDune
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Re: Black Dots Appearing on Terrain

Post by AfterDune »

It's an ATI problem you can easily fix. Go into your ATI CCC and enable Catalyst AI (or disable it, if it's enabled).
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Rezza
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Re: Black Dots Appearing on Terrain

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Enabling and disabling Catalyst AI doesn't help. I ll try the hardware shadows thing.

That didn't help as well
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Mikemonster
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Re: Black Dots Appearing on Terrain

Post by Mikemonster »

See this thread.. I think i've got it to work by setting the Terrain Texture to Low in-game (known fix) and then exiting and manually putting the Terrain Texture back up to 3 in the config file.

https://www.realitymod.com/forum/f27-pr ... lem-2.html
beavis.uk^
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Re: Black Dots Appearing on Terrain

Post by beavis.uk^ »

Thanks Mikemonster, setting my bf2 video option "terrain" from high to low has removed the black dots. But when I tried changing it back to high they appeared again, and I didn't delete the cache after setting back to high. I haven't tried medium. As stated in another post the catalyst a.i. being off/standard/advanced does not solve it, so for any new person to this thread with the same problem, heres your solution for now.
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Acemantura
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Re: Black Dots Appearing on Terrain

Post by Acemantura »

So,

Nvidia is the way to go?
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