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Anonymous

11 years ago

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Character models missing body parts/floating heads/etc?

Started playing Dragon Age 2 again, and I seem to have a case of disappearing character models. Or parts of them. Look at these Darkspawn:

http://i.imgur.com/Rtrx4Fa.jpg?1

Went and loaded up some older save games, and it's there too. Some of the Carta dwarves in Legacy are just floating heads, and a bronto was just a couple of spikes floating around.

What's going on? I tried clearing out my override folder and carefully reinstalling mods, but the problem persists.

I don't see why it'd be a graphics issue, I'm playing the game on an up-to-date GTX 780. I'm leaps and bounds ahead of what this game needs.

Fred_vdp
11 years ago
commandercrumpet wrote:

I don't see why it'd be a graphics issue, I'm playing the game on an up-to-date GTX 780. I'm leaps and bounds ahead of what this game needs.

Nvidia's recent drivers don't work properly with DA2 if you're using the DX11 renderer. You can either play in DX9 mode or use the last compatible driver.

The last compatible Nvidia driver is 340.52. (Source)

Please let me know if using this driver version fixes the issues you're having.

4 Replies

lanccer
11 years ago
I have exact same problem , it is very annoying and funny part is I didn't have this problem before when I was playing this game on my old pc . my new pc is much better than recommended rig for this game and my graphic card is quite good (nvidia gforce 780ti) I don't understand why the game is acting up
Fred_vdp
Hero+
11 years ago
commandercrumpet wrote:

I don't see why it'd be a graphics issue, I'm playing the game on an up-to-date GTX 780. I'm leaps and bounds ahead of what this game needs.

Nvidia's recent drivers don't work properly with DA2 if you're using the DX11 renderer. You can either play in DX9 mode or use the last compatible driver.

The last compatible Nvidia driver is 340.52. (Source)

Please let me know if using this driver version fixes the issues you're having.
Anonymous
11 years ago
Going back to DX9 seems to have worked. Bit disappointing, but eh, wasn't playing this game for the graphics anyway.
I'll try the driver later, but for now I'll just grit my teeth with DX9 I think.
Fred_vdp
Hero+
11 years ago
It's a shame to have to run on DX9 on an advanced GPU.

I used to have problems with Nvidia's drivers myself. I had to do research on which drivers to use for games like Knights of the Old Republic and Mass Effect. My brother has an Nvidia GPU and League of Legends' framerate got cut in half when he updated his driver. He's had similar issues with Star Wars: The Old Republic.

I like Nvidia's products and software, but the driver compatibility is the reason I switched to AMD cards. They have some unique issues as well, but at least I can play games that are over two years old.