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Paradox_2035's avatar
6 years ago

Flickering reflecting textures

Product: Need for Speed Heat
Platform:PC
Summarize your bug Specific reflecting materials loose reflection and start to flicker. Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bnrSSQTh2EQ
What car were you using? All cars are affected, both personal and community so selecting personal in the next question...
Was the car your own build or downloaded from the in-game community? Personal Build
What was the last event you played? Doesn't matter which event this happens everytime. I restarted the game, reinstalled the game, reinstalled my graphics drivers even tho this occurs only in this game nothing makes it better or worse. Tried all graphics settings from low to ultra, through custom etc. One important note, my resolution is 3440x1440 100Hz.
Was it a day or a night event? Day Event
How often does the bug occur? Every time (100%)
Steps: How can we find the bug ourselves? Check the video, honestly not sure.
What happens when the bug occurs? The metallic reflection parts in the video as you see loose reflection and turn solid grey color. After a while it comes back to the correct metallic texture. All resolution, all cars, all evens, all times (day, night) and only in this game. All other games are fine and I see not even similar behavior.
What do you expect to see? Not flickering reflections that's for sure.

LINK A video I made of the bug. The same behavior is present on all cars, different parts (sometimes it's the rear bumper, sometimes the read windshield, sometimes the side skirts, rarely even the roads themselves with their reflections during rainy weather).

This is the only game I see such behavior: Anthem, Crew, NFS Payback, Metro Exodus, Gears 5, Shadow of the Tomb Raider... they're all just fine.

6 Replies

  • Same here. I even tried toying with the 3D settings in NVIDIA control panel but no luck, the flickering grey material is still there ☹️ . I really hope it's a game issue and not a hardware-related one. I run the game on 1920x1080 at 60hz on High Settings on a quite beefy rig and it's installed on a SSD (GTX 1650, Ryzen 5 2600, 16 gigs DDR4 ram).

  • Same here as well. The metallic textures flicker and turn solid grey and non reflective. My best example is the KS Edition I8. Pictures of it are attached. One that shows how it should be and the other one shows the non reflective textures.

  • although all cars have this issue, for me i see it most on the BMW i8 Roadster. especially the back part of the car.

    can be seen both in the garage and on road. 

  • @raikerb Try using 16x anisotropic filtering with highest quality texture filtering in nvidia controlpanel. That is what I did it atleast fixed some textures but I don't think it will fix this.
  • Kaizi3n's avatar
    Kaizi3n
    5 years ago

    @Sjonny30Yup tried it and the problem still persisted. Even tried asking around they said if u ran the game on ultra it should fix it. So maybe the only way to go is to upgrade :/

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