Mantle graphical corruption in DA:I
I'm coming back to DA:I after over a year... I had it running great back then using Mantle. Now I'm getting this weird moire lighting effect on characters. Switching to D3D11 fixes it, but it runs mu...
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I just finished a clean install of 16.7.3. Uninstalled, restarted, re-installed fresh, restarted. same problem.
'The 16.9.1 driver is a new driver. It's not in beta, but it's a non-WHQL driver. I uninstalled that one because I had an issue with another game.'
I guess that is why I didn't see it. I had come to rely on AMD settings and the 'AMD Gaming evolved' thing to tell me when new drivers were available (mainly because they usually notified me before I even knew there was a new one out). Looks like they aren't seeing any of the non-WHQL ones, and AMD started releasing a lot more non-WHQL since the last time i had to manually go looking for drivers. I might try 16.9.1 (or the previous version) as a test. Probably check the release notes first.
As to my open ticket with EA: so far, nothing substantial. The T1 guy directed me to an old thread for Nvidia drivers crashing and hogging resources (one that was opened shortly after the games release and is still open but basically dead). they also suggested a clean install, rolling back my driers (but the previous version was crashing to desktop on the loading screen with no error message and no eventlog entry), and repairing the game install. Tried the clean driver install (no dice) and the game repair (also no dice). Only thing left to test is either the non-WHQL drivers or rolling back to 15.x.x.
Ok. I think it seems to be fixed in 16.9.1.
While i was looking through the release notes of the various hotfixes, I spotted this 'known issue'
"Shader Cache may remain be enabled when set to "off" in Radeon Settings on some Hybrid Graphics configurations."
for all drivers between 16.7.3 and 16.9.1 hotfix. 16.9.1 itself *didn't* list this, either as a 'known issue' are that it was fixing it.
Since the graphics problem seemed to be a shader issue of some kind, I tried turning the shader settings off in AMD settings. no effect, but since it was a 'known issue' for the later hotfixes, i assumed it was probably a problem with 16.7.3 as well. I tried upgrading to 16.9.1 to test switching the setting on and off (and to the default 'AMD Optimized') and the problem didn't come back. So I guess 16.9.1 fixes it? Odd that it doesn't say anything about the fix (that I can tell) but maybe it was incidentally fixed with some other issue.
Either way, i'm not complaining. Thanks for that help, Fred_vdp. And graahf, hopefully this also works for you.
EDIT: wrong version number.
TL;DR:
Recommended steps (from my perspective):
download both 16.7.3 and the 16.9.1 hotfix here. http://support.amd.com/en-us/download/desktop?os=Windows+7+-+64
uninstall old drivers
restart
clean install of 16.7.3,
restart,
then install 16.9.1 hotfix
restart
run DA:I. enjoy (hopefully)
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