Small black boxes are flashing on screen constantly. Tried toggling a bunch of settings in Display and Graphics but can't get them to go away. Also tried to get through character creation to see if it was just an issue there, but it persists into the game.Any help to resolve this issue would be hugely appreciated!Attaching images below, harder to see in images vs. video, but hoping it helps identify the issue.

Posting a new comment. This is just for AMD, sorry for the Nvidia guy but checking in the settings, it appears that the artifacting only happens when FSR is enabled and its set to Balance. Quality has no issues.

Graphics Issues - Black Boxes/Artifacting

M0DDEDWARFAIL2
Seasoned Novice
22 days ago
Posting a new comment. This is just for AMD, sorry for the Nvidia guy but checking in the settings, it appears that the artifacting only happens when FSR is enabled and its set to Balance. Quality has no issues.
- ColangelosCrew
  Seasoned Novice
  22 days ago
  Thanks! Changing FSR from Balance to Quality worked for me.
- xariann
  Seasoned Novice
  21 days ago
  This is not just an AMD thing btw (I know your solution applies to AMD) it's happening to me, on the Nvidia 4070, regardless of whether DLSS is on or not.
- streunekatze
  New Novice
  21 days ago
  Thank you this really seems to work! You are awesome for finding it. Have fun playing
M0DDEDWARFAIL2
Seasoned Novice
22 days ago
I'm also running into the same issue however it happened after finishing the very first mission of the game.
GPU: 7800XT
CPU:5800x
32GB ram
OS: Windows 11
Also updated CPU and GPU drivers as well. I'm thinking this may be specific to AMD. I haven't seen anything mentioned really on intel/Nvidia hardware.
- M0DDEDWARFAIL2
  Seasoned Novice
  22 days ago
  Following up on this. Looks like this was an AMD problem, they didn't release game ready drivers for the game so they released an emergency drivers update: https://www.amd.com/en/resources/support-articles/release-notes/RN-RAD-WIN-24-20-19-05.html
  Going to download and give it a try and see if things function as normal.
  - M0DDEDWARFAIL2
    Seasoned Novice
    22 days ago
    Downloaded update, but still no change unfortunately. Still seeing transparent black boxes flash in. Tested out another game (Horizon Forbidden West) and no issues just in the office chance my GPU is artifacting so it's very much I'm assuming an issue with DA:VG and how it's optimized for either the 7800xt or AMD drivers. Someone at EA needs to look at this thread.
- e838c4f509abd09b
  Seasoned Newcomer
  22 days ago
  Chiming I'm to say I've had the same issue, with the same 7800xt gfx card. So definitely seems to be an issue with our AMD cards. Only started happening for me after the intro sequence.
- ColangelosCrew
  Seasoned Novice
  22 days ago
  My specs are pretty similar. Going to try flashing the latest BIOS to see if it fixes the issue. Will report back.
  GPU: 7800XT
  CPU: 5700x
  Memory: 32GB
  OS: Windows 11
  - ColangelosCrew
    Seasoned Novice
    22 days ago
    BIOS update didn't fix it. I'm starting to believe this is something AMD will have to fix with a drivers update.
ColangelosCrew
Seasoned Novice
23 days ago
What is your EA ID or Console ID (PSN ID/Gamertag)?
ColangelosCrew
What platform are you playing on?
PC, Windows 11, Steam
What is happening? (and what do you expect to happen instead?)
Small black boxes are flashing on screen constantly. Tried to get through character creation to see if it was just an issue there, but it persists into the game.
Does this happen in a specific area of the game?
It happens constantly, not in a specific area
Please share any steps you've tried so far to resolve the issue:
Tried toggling a bunch of settings in Display and Graphics but can't get them to go away
Updated AMD drivers
Reset PC
Tried playing further into the game but the boxes stay
If possible, share a Screenshot or Clip...
See above
streunekatze
New Novice
22 days ago
Same Problem also with AMD Radeaon RX 7800 XT
- streunekatze
  New Novice
  22 days ago
  managed to get a screenshot with two of those black blocks :(
skazu
Seasoned Newcomer
22 days ago
Same, also Radeon 7800 xt.
ReckonerUK
Rising Newcomer
19 days ago
I found out what my issue was, I was using upscaling at quality but didn't notice the games own dynamic resolution scaler was switched on, After turning this off upscaling worked perfectly. Maybe it will help some of you.
xariann
Seasoned Novice
22 days ago
I have a similar issue. It wasn't there yesterday and AFTER the issue cropped up I updated my drivers but it's still a problem. It's a big box on the left hand side for me.
- Eianzkie92
  Rising Novice
  20 days ago
  This happened to me too. Dont know what to do. At first, I thought it was a problem from my monitor but it's not. I'm running on RTX 4070Ti Super, I9 14900k system.
  It's really ruining my experience 😭
  
  Update: Resolved mine thru updating my bios. I didn't know that my bios has new updates.
xariann
Seasoned Novice
22 days ago
Forum won't let me edit the previous post, I'm on an Nvidia 4070.
AeiunaRose
Rising Newcomer
14 days ago
Changing upscaling setting in display settings worked for me. AMD FSR to quality like OP said or just switching from AMD FSR to Intel xess.
7800XT as well. The weird thing is it wasn't happening to me at all, since launch, but just began with the first patch.

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