Pixelated and very low textures. UPDATED*

Hey Noooobody,

To me it seems like an issue with the static shadows for your GPU. As you are running BF3 with Dx11 or 10. Other games may not reflect the same issue as they will 99% run with DirectX9.0.

This is due to the shadows moving during your gameplay. rather than being burnt into the picture (IE: allways the same spot)

With a 7900 series GPU you should be able to ULTRA the heck out of BF3 without any issues.

One thing you can try now is to set your "Shadow Quality" to medium or low to see if it helps anything.

Otherwise try the following changes to your game settings:

Vertical sync: Off

Motion blur: disabled (move the bar all the way to the left)

Graphics Quality: Custom 

Texture quality: Ultra

Shadow quality: High, Medium or low (Try with all 3)

Effects Quality: Ultra

Mesh Quality: Ultra

Terrain Quality: Ultra

Antialiasing Deferred: Off

Antialiasing Post: Off

Motion Blur: Off

Anisotropic Filter: 1x or 4x

Ambient Occlusion: HBAO

- Could you list other games you tested just to confirm?

- Could you post a screenshot of your in-game settings? in the "Video" section.

- Can you let me know exactly which GPU you have? 7970, 7980 or 7850 are very different 🙂

- What Processor do you have?

- Youre running the game at 1440x900 resolution, this can also cause the problem. Try with 1280×720 on both your desktop and in the game itself.

ADDITONAL:

It could also be caused by background programs:

BitTorrent

Steam

Skype

All 3 are known to hog up your CPU as mad due to their constant refreshing.

Furthermore your monitor is refreshing at 75MHz, if your game is running at less than 60 FPS then that will be an issue too, you can usually change this in your monitors options.

1. DX11(BF3 doesn't have dx9 😕mileyhappy:

2. I have it as IE: (always the same spot) but the glichy thing changes shapes-

3. Crysis 1 and 2. and other games like cod...

4. Settings I have it in ultra (Def) but the blur is off.

5. Sapphire 7970 OC

6. I5 3,20

7. (1280×720) I would like to do that but the screen would look so ugly. No thanks

8 NAAAAHHH come on man that's old talk, programs don't use so much memory or/and CPU in this days.

I have 8gb ram :D

so basically I have gaming PC but

Thanks for caring :heart:

P.S. if you look closely you will see that the glichy thing is over the whole screen but the color of it is gray and most of the screen is black gray and that is why you can't see it. The thing is IM thinking... That its not from the GPU actually, its from the game. The glichy thing is not over the HUD its only in the game. (if you know what I mean, god I hope)

I have now other problem ☹️

Im having really low res textures and I have to restart my game sometimes to get it right.

And my FPS is even more dropping Im having 30FPS or something and at that Im having little lag.

Guys, please help me. I'm in need

1. You never read what I said 🙂 I said OTHER games will run Dx9, I am fully aware that BF3 uses Dx11.

2. This is because those speciffic spots have static textures (moving shadows) where as other places don't. (static shadows is your own shadow as it will move depending on where you are.)

3. Crysis 1 + 2 and COD only uses DirectX9.0 unless you for Crysis 2 install the HD texture patch. Otherwise it's Dx9.0 so this does not exclude that your GPU is either damaged from fabrication or shipping.

4. Thats good, can you try with the settings I posted above. All we need is 5-10 minute gameplay to see if it makes any improvements.

5. Sapphire 7970 OC (seems fine, did you OC yourself or from fabric?)

6. I5 3,20 (Seems fine)

7. All we need is 5-10 minute gameplay to see if it makes any improvements.

8. I stream at 1080p I am fully aware how big a difference some programs can make on the quality. As said above twice, try turning them off 5-10 minutes and see if it helps ^^

@ 2nd problem.

1. http://www.ozone3d.net/benchmarks/fur/

Stress test your GPU overnight and post the results.

2. Set your monitor refresh rate to 60MHz instead of 75MHz (again 5-10 minutes is all we need)¨

3. Is the problem there from the start or after a few minutes of playing?

1. Sorry for that, 

2. ...........

3. I have my crysis on DX11 high textures.

4. Its not about all we need is 5 to 10 min. The problem is not always there. Sometimes it happen to me. As I said "about 25% of my gaming time this week with BF3 it happen a glitchy/pixelated" 

5. Its already OC not me. And it seems fine? XD you are funny. Its one of the best, and you say it seems XD come on man

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1. Look really down!!

2. Why? I don't think the problem is there.

3. Yes when I start my game it was like that, ugly

BTW today in the morning I reinstall my windows 7 64bit. To just see if there was a problem in the system registry or anything might causing this FPS drop problem.

Thanks a lot for caring for my problem <3

the burn in test resolts was the same as the benchmark.

Benchmark:

SCORE:2473 points (41 FPS, 60000 ms)

Max GPU Temp: 74°C

Resolution: 1280x720 (FS) - AA:8 samples

FPS: min:42, max:43, avg:41 - OPTIONS: XB FX DynBkg

AMD SI TAHITI XT (1002-6798)

Catalyst 12.6 - 8.98-120611a-141402C-ATI (6-11-2012)

core:950MHz, mem:1425MHz

Intel(R) Core(TM) i5 CPU         750  @ 3200 MHz

8151 MB

Windows 7 64-bit build 7601 [Service Pack 1]

1. np

2. .......... (wat)

3. I am assuming that your Crysis 2 is fine at Dx11?

4. Please try with the GPU Settings I've listed in my post above. Even though the 7970 is top of the line you're using a 1920x1080p native GPU and compressing the GPU settings into a x900 screen. It MAY cause problems and without testing it we can't really know.

Vertical sync: Off

Motion blur: disabled (move the bar all the way to the left)

Graphics Quality: Custom 

Texture quality: Ultra

Shadow quality: High, Medium or low (Try with all 3)

Effects Quality: Ultra

Mesh Quality: Ultra

Terrain Quality: Ultra

Antialiasing Deferred: Off

Antialiasing Post: Off

Motion Blur: Off

Anisotropic Filter: 1x or 4x

Ambient Occlusion: HBAO

5. A fabric OC'd GPU is fine yes 🙂

6. The Benchmark looks fine though your GPU goes to 74 degrees.

7. We don't know yet untill you've tried.

8. Can you try to delete your "Battlefield 3" folder located here: C:\Users\"USERNAME"\Documents\Battlefield 3

a. Obviously correct the "USERNAME" with your windows profile name.

In your benchmark your monitor is tested at 60MHz refresh rate, again please try either 1280x720@60MHz or current resolution with @60MHz refresh

And as for caring about your problem? Well the more players playing the game the more dog tags I have to hunt :3<3

I played Dirt showdown and I think it was on DX11 and I put it on MAX settings and I didnt have a problem at all.

3.  yes really fine.

4. ok I will do it, just for the sake and im sure it doesnt matter. and not near the proble, I will run it at HD and that setting you said.

6. 74c is normal for burnin.

8. dont worry I just install BF3 no need to delete the settings file.

New  test at HD 60hz:

SCORE:2472 points (41 FPS, 60000 ms)

Max GPU Temp: 67°C (BTW the last test had this temp. but I wrote it wrong. so 74 is wrong and under 70 is right.

Resolution: 1280x720 (FS) - AA:8 samples

FPS: min:42, max:43, avg:41 - OPTIONS: XB FX DynBkg

others are still the same.

P.S when I put it at 60hz the text is not sharp anymore, and its hard to read. anyway.

PLEASE READ (THIS PROBLEMS DESNT ALWAYS SHOW UP SO IF I PUT IT ON OTHER SETTINGS OR CHANGE IT TO 60HZ IT MIGHT SHOW UP AND IT MIGHT NOT. I DONT ALWAYS SEE IT.) but the problem that I'm always facing is FPS, mine is really slow/low. about avg on ultra without blur = somewhere 50FPS NOW! but it should be 80FPS and more. all the other benchmarks on the internet they have Full HD and they get avg 60 FPS but with lower than FullHD the FPS should increase.

what I think its BF3 compatibility problem withthe new HD 7900 (bcoz I dont have any problem with other DX11 games. and a proof of that the pic I took where all in the server wer having FPS drop. and they have tested to join in more than one server. so I have dont too.  (look on the chat box in the game)

avg= average

and today I have this DirectX error. why god whyyyy why meee ://///

The Enemies in the minimap are so small, they look like a little dots.

BTW, it doesn't always happen.

what do you know, every day im having a problem with bf3 :mantongue:

Today it happened this Pixelated things but not all over the screen and I tried to study it. And you were wrong about it. It wasn't about the light or the static shading. 

it was in one place and it didnt move, and it was Emulating/clogging/mimicking the backgrounds color. So when I stop moving I can beryl see it, and when I move it changes colors fast to the background. :catmad:

(for the pictures I posted about the Pixelated things, they were all over the screen but you and my could not see it. bcoz they change color. 

And one more thing, they happened in more than in one map in bf3)

and today I made a benchmark in (Heaven DX11 Benchmark 3.0) and my result was fairly seemlier to others. (others had 60FPS avg and min had 59.1FPS  avg)

About the minimap, press N I believe it is, it zooms in and out on the minimap.

About the DirectX message. It is defo an issue with the GPU chip on your graphics card. I would honestly recommend either contacting the producer of the card (ASUS, whatever.) and ask to get it RMA (Returned).

In the long run it will not cost you anything but it will be a massive improvement. Battlefield 3 is a ton more resource hogging than both Crysis and Dirt and it is a completely different engine.

I have the Asus 7970 (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Asus-HD7970-DirectCU-pixels-90-C1CRM1-U0UAY0BZ/dp/B0083T1FRM/ref=sr_1_2?s=computers&ie=UTF8&qid=1344252935&sr=1-2)

And the game runs smooth. Alternatively you can try to downclock your GPU but that would loose you the warranty.