Hey WilyWolfe.
i saw your post over at Nvidia forums as well.
I'll post what i wrote there over here incase you miss it.
"This is definitely an issue people with 700 series GFX cards are having. My self included (780ti).
I'm not 100% sure on the cause but what definitely seems to help "Solve" the problem is rolling back your Video card drivers to an older one. Therefor, I can't help but put the blame on Nvidia and there latest drivers.
After installing the new 347.52 drivers I'm getting a lot of texture flickering. I know the problem has been happening with SLI but my setup is a single GPU.
The flickering textures is prominent with trees and rock surfaces. I also get minor texture pop in.
Regardless of setting graphics options (lowest or Ultra) The texture flickering still happens equally on all settings.
I rolled back to the previous driver 347.09 and I still have texture flickering.
However, rolling back to driver 344.11 and 344.75 seems to fix the problem ( no more texture flickering or texture pop in) but the performance also drops.
So i did some testing with the GFX settings on High (tessellation on medium) and these were the results
I chose Redridge since it's one of the most demanding areas.
- 344.11 (No texture or Pop in Issues) FPS hovers around 35-50fps in redridge
- 344.75 (No texture or Pop in Issues) FPS hovers around 35-50fps in redridge
- 347.09 (texture flickering and pop in issues) FPS hovers around 40-60fps in redridge
- 347.52 (texture flickering and pop in issues) FPS hovers around 40-60fps in redridge
So yeh, long story short, Newer drivers improve performance but cause weird texture flickering and pop-in.
Older drivers fix the texture flickering and pop-in issue but lower performance.
My PC Setup is: (nothing is OC)
Intel i7 2600
GTX 780ti
8gb ram
Game is installed on an SSD"
I hope this helps, personally I don't want to compromise performance for something as lame as texture flickering but sadly there is no other choice as it's quite distracting to have trees and rocks constantly flickering.
Thanks for taking the time to reply to both of my posts, method. It's much appreciated. Hopefully either Bioware or Nvidia catch wind of this problem and fix it in future updates, because as of right now it's like Dragon Age has spontaneous raves at random points with trees, boulders, and some stone walls. Really damn distracting.
No Problem.
Just a heads up, the new 347.88 drivers came out today and the problem still persists.
Still playing the waiting game!
