Product: Star Wars Battlefront II
Platform:PC
What is your issue related to? General
Summarize your bug Visual HBAO full glitch.
What is your gamertag/PSN ID/EA Account name? Redro_99
How often does the bug occur? Every time (100%)
Can you tell us the date (MM/DD/YYYY) that you saw the bug? 12/15/17
What time did you see the bug? (HH:MM AM/PM) 12:00 am
In what game mode did the bug occur? Galactic Assault
What is your time zone? PST - GMT - 8:00
Steps: How can we find the bug ourselves? Enable HBAO full on an AMD gpu running up to date drivers (17.12.2)
What happens when the bug occurs? Ambient occlusion from the environment and menus gets frozen or burnt onto the screen.
What do you expect to see? A fix?
Please select your region North America
AMD or Nvidia Model Number AMD RX 480 4GB
Visual bug where when HBAO full is enabled on AMD graphics cards (AMD RX 480 4GB in my case) running the up to date versions of the gpu drivers (currently 17.12.2, previous versions had the issue as well.). The game essentially removes all ambient occlusion and 'stamps' it to the screen, giving an appearance of the screen being burnt. This occurs anywhere in the game virtually constantly and occasionally 'refreshes' and replaces the 'stamped' ambient occlusion that it 'burned' onto the screen with the ambient occlusion that is currently present in the environment and stamps that instead. It is extremely jarring and no small visual glitch. It occurs in any mode at any point, even in the menus (I don't know why there wasn't an option for all modes.). There will occasionally be a point where it goes away but its never more than just few seconds of relief. Its pretty much constant. This may be a driver issue on AMDs end but it was also present in the previous driver versions as well. DICE may need to contact AMD about this. Here is a video showing the glitch, there is nothing wrong with the video.... this is how it looks in-game, if you look you will see just dark lines and shapes stuck on screen, essentially those are just shadows that were in the environment where the person was looking previously... This video however is not my own but it does demonstrate the same bug, the comments also show other people having the same issue with other AMD cards so I know for a fact it is not just exclusive to my RX480 4GB. This bug has been present for months now. No fix by DICE or AMD. I'm surprised a bug this jarring has gone relatively unnoticed.
Has anyone tried the 18.2.1 drivers yet??
Solved the ghosting, artifacting may still appear in SA when the vram usage is near maximum.
EA Staff (Retired)Hi everyone!
Sorry for popping in, but I just wanted to ask if you've noticed any improvement after installing the latest SWB2 patches (2.0 and 2.01)?
Many thanks for your replies!
/Ataashi
