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Black Dots Appearing on Terrain

Posted: 2011-05-15 02:24
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

Re: Black Dots Appearing on Terrain

Posted: 2011-05-15 02:35
by saXoni
Try to delete your cache folder content. My Documents -> Battlefield 2 -> Mods -> BF2 -> Cache.

Re: Black Dots Appearing on Terrain

Posted: 2011-05-15 02:38
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.

Re: Black Dots Appearing on Terrain

Posted: 2011-05-15 09:05
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 ****.

Re: Black Dots Appearing on Terrain

Posted: 2011-05-15 17:35
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.

Re: Black Dots Appearing on Terrain

Posted: 2011-05-15 18:43
by Rezza
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

Re: Black Dots Appearing on Terrain

Posted: 2011-05-16 18:34
by beavis.uk^

Re: Black Dots Appearing on Terrain

Posted: 2011-05-16 18:53
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)

Re: Black Dots Appearing on Terrain

Posted: 2011-05-17 05:04
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).

Re: Black Dots Appearing on Terrain

Posted: 2011-05-17 12:10
by Rezza
Enabling and disabling Catalyst AI doesn't help. I ll try the hardware shadows thing.

That didn't help as well

Re: Black Dots Appearing on Terrain

Posted: 2011-05-17 12:24
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

Re: Black Dots Appearing on Terrain

Posted: 2011-05-17 18:14
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.

Re: Black Dots Appearing on Terrain

Posted: 2011-05-21 17:23
by Acemantura
So,

Nvidia is the way to go?