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Anonymous
10 years ago
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AMD Graphics Corruption In Outer Rim/Jabba's Palace Exp Uplayable

Hi. I bought the season pass and have been playing the outer rim expansion. All the maps are fine except 2. Small problem but a little annoying is the gas/smoke clouds flicker in Jabba's Garage. Game...
  • yahel_1's avatar
    yahel_1
    10 years ago

    Hi @darkhelmit

    Because you have 2 Gigabyte 7970's , you need to follow this steps.

    A driver issue causes dual graphics card setups with AMD Crossfire to suffer performance drops.

    AMD is working on a driver update for this issue.

    In the meantime, disable one graphics card and to lower lighting from Ultra to Medium to avoid performance problems.

    ​​AMD players can change their Crossfire settings through the Catalyst Control Center.

    1. Right-click your Desktop and select Catalyst Control Center.
    2. Open the Graphics menu.
    3. Click CrossfireX.
    4. Uncheck Enable Crossfire.
    5. Click OK to save your settings.
    6. Now you need to lower lighting from Ultra to Medium

    More details here http://help.ea.com/en/article/common-gameplay-issues-and-workaround-star-wars-battlefront/#one-col-expand-collapse_Pf64dwBE

Anonymous's avatar
Anonymous
10 years ago

Thank you for the reply. It Worked!!!! It's crossfire that's causing the graphics problems. I can now play fine on one card but with lower settings. I have Crimson drivers so in the program I can disable the crossfire setting for SWBF only. That helps. So I don't have to go and disable it every time i want to change games. I didn't try disabling crossfire X because a person said that wasn't the cause. Sorry about that. Thanks again.

  • ddelamareuk's avatar
    ddelamareuk
    10 years ago

    Do you have any idea on when the patch may be available for Crossfire?

    It seems like everyone is just completely ignoring crossfire users altogether.

    Exactly when was the information from AMD about the patch provided so that i can contact them and ask them exactly what the issue is here.

    Thanks

    • Anonymous's avatar
      Anonymous
      10 years ago

      Your question is beyond the responsibility area of the members here.  Answer HQ is the player community's website.  There are no developer personnel, nor any official customer support here.  However, generally speaking, when one GPU of a pair that could work together, works fine in a game, and two will not, it is quite often the driver that is at fault, and no one in that case on EA's end has any major influence on when / how the replacement software arrives. 

      • ddelamareuk's avatar
        ddelamareuk
        10 years ago

        Hi Gorath,

        Thanks for the reply.

        Perhaps my question is slightly out of scope if this is community only, thanks for reminding me 🙂

        Moving on to the first point, unfortunately you are not accurate in what you state and unless you are 100% sure, you should never state facts.

        First and foremost, a game developer needs to enable CF/SLI in game/engine. If this is not done, then the second card will simply never fire up. Period. Certainly AMD will never look at creating patches or even CF profiles within Crimson if the game does not support CF/SLI. 

        CF is a COMPLETE pain in the rear, sometimes working, sometimes not but mostly its just full of side effects that neither side wants to take ownership for, but that's another topic altogether.

        Actually my issue, after much testing, was found to be with the CF bridge or at least the CF fingers on the cards. Testing with another game known to work with CF produced the same symptoms so adjusting the bridge whilst in-game allowed me to fix the issue, it was just something i never considered and everything else was reporting as OK within the OS and Crimson.

        The second point, that i would like to raise, is that since getting CF back to a normal working state (I don't know if i can even say that in the same sentence as crossfire but hey ho...) is that i can now run SW: Battlefront well. Good CF scaling, usage and temps across the board. Actually this is mostly down to AMD and the work they have been doing over the last few months, but i am getting Black Textures some distance in front of my character. Depending on the viewing angle, it will come and go, but mostly its always in the direction of the map progression.

        Testing with various resolutions and graphics settings, this appears to be less of an issue once the shadow and lighting is switched to low. However the issue still remains, its just a little more bearable. I believe that this is definitely shadow related somehow, which appears to be another side effect of being and AMD card owner depending on the game and engine, but hey (again)...

        If anyone is encountering this issue with AMD cards, i'd like to know what their experience is, hardware, drivers etc. For example, i have someone on another forum advising that everything is fine with a pair of R9 290's. So for me it seems that certain cards in CF are affected by this, other not.

        Speak up peeps 🙂

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