Product Name: EA Sports WRCUsername: daniellearmouthDate Encountered: 31st October 2023Device Type: PC (Ryzen 7 3700X, 32GB DDR4, NVIDIA GTX 980 Ti)Troubleshooting Attempted: Driver updates, verifying file integrityHello there. I've been having a fun time with WRC so far, but I've hit a brick wall in terms of progression, because I am having a problem with the visuals that makes it fundamentally impossible to play.Throughout the game, I have been experiencing visual artifacting much like what I've shown in the attached images. Black squares take up much of the screen, making things a bit difficult to see, but at first, the issue wasn't intolerable exactly, just a little annoying. However, where things got really troublesome was at the first attempt at a night rally, and it's impossible to see anything in that.In preparation for playing the game, I updated my computer's graphics drivers to the most recent version (GeForce Game Ready Driver 546.01). My NVIDIA GTX 980 Ti's a bit behind the curve now, but I have gotten good framerates from it, but issues of the nature I've just brought up are ultimately preventing me from playing more than I would want to.If there is any more information I need to provide, I'll try my best to provide it.

@EA_Barry wrote:@HoteregCZ @daniellearmouth @LanausKone @wwlr697n18v8 @Fleshks Please also ensure you are using a GPU that meets or exceeds the requirements: Windows minimum requirementsOS:Win 10Processor(AMD):AMD Ryzen 5 2600XProcessor(Intel):Intel i5 9600KMemory: 8GBGraphics Card(AMD):Radeon RX Vega 56Graphics Card(Nvidia):Nvidia GTX 1060Direct X:12Online Connection Requirements:BroadbandHard Drive Space:80GbThanks.Hello again. I think I should stress a few things here and explain the problem more thoroughly, so that we can narrow things down, because whilst I do acknowledge that my card falls below minimum spec in terms of the generation of card, it's still running quite well all things considered for the settings and resolution I am playing at. I am playing at 1080p on a 144Hz monitor, and whilst I do not get 144 frames per second on the High graphics preset, I do still get a reasonably playable framerate with a game that — when things aren't visually messed up — does look rather good.It's just the artifacting that's the problem here, and it starts to overwhelm the game and makes it impossible to play. Given the game runs and can look good (there are moments where this visual artifacting does not appear at all, albeit briefly, and there's no discernable reason as to why it suddenly looks right) I don't see any serious inherent reason for the cards behind the GTX 1000 cards generationally not working as well, even if they may not officially be recommended or even supported.As an example, the first attached image is from the replay of a time trial stage I did. The replay looked pretty good, although I did notice a few instances of the artifacting coming into effect, but I did get a screenshot without it. The second attached image is that same time trial stage, but during play. It's like I'm a horse with blinkers put on it. If I move out of driver's eye view, it can work, but it's not a viewpoint I'm used to driving in.And, fundamentally, night driving is impossible, as everything is overwhelmed by artifacting. Nothing besides the skybox renders correctly; the only thing that renders at all is the rear view mirror, as you can see in the third attached image, and you can't drive a rally stage by looking in the rear view mirror. It's a shame, because DiRT Rally 2.0's night rallies were fantastic, and I would love to be able to do it again...but I can't because the game just will not allow me.This situation is somewhat reminiscent of a sequence in the original Mass Effect (which also happens to be an Unreal Engine game). If your system has a compatibility issue going on, the result is that in Noveria, you and your party's models don't render correctly and everything turns into huge masses of black squares. It's much the same issue, but about 15 or so years apart.I hope I don't sound like I'm being harsh or whiny here; I'm trying my best to measure my words here. It's just that I'm not sure how much value there is in suggesting that the recommended course of action here is to use a different graphics card, given that firstly, the game still runs (and it runs quite well, artifacting aside) on these GPUs, and secondly, new GPUs are just...not great value. I acknowledge I've got to jump onto a new GPU at some point (Maxwell is four generations behind now), but it would be nice if I could have the game be playable in its entirety with what I currently have, even if what I currently have is lagging behind on what is currently out there.Whilst by no means a scientific measure of the landscape of PC gaming hardware, the Steam Hardware Survey for September 2023 shows that approximately 1.5% of systems currently have a Maxwell GPU in them; of those GPUs, the GTX 960 and 950 models are the most popular at 0.54% and 0.52% each. Whilst nothing on the scale of, say, the RTX 3060 (6.27%), it's still an architecture that a number of players are still playing games on, even recently released ones. As an anecdotal example, I was playing Resident Evil 4 recently, and despite it not looking its best on my hardware, and it also having a minimum system requirement beyond what I currently have, it was still reasonably playable with a few concessions.I guess the point I'm trying to make here is that unless this is a situation akin to the recently released Alan Wake II, which for genuine reasons requires better hardware, then this shouldn't be a problem. The game runs, I can drive, I can complete rallies...but I can't do them at night, and even during the day, there are serious artifacting issues that are preventing the game from being completely playable. If indeed there is something about the Maxwell GPUs that makes them unable to handle this game, then absolutely fair enough, but as it stands, I'd be surprised if that was the case.If there are any further details that I might need to provide, I'm more than happy to oblige. Once again, I appreciate that I, along with others here, might be playing outside of the required specs, but we're here for the same reason: there's a visual issue with the game that makes it impossible to really play properly.

Nothing apart from the skybox renders as lit up at night, anything apart from swingman camera results in pitch black screen. Using triple screens on all graphics levels. Using Nvidia with all drivers updated.

I'm noticing a pattern with the replies here: the people having issues with all the artifacting and stuff are on NVIDIA Maxwell GPUs (so stuff like the 970, 980, 980 Ti and so on). That's...not good...

If you also have a GTX 970, 980 or 980ti it is actually a hardware related problem. I hope they fix it though because it is unplayable for me like this.My GTX 980 is stronger than the 1060 minimum requirement so I don't get why it wouldn't work, and why they have not yet fixed or even acknowledged it. Maybe one of us should make this thread in the technical problems forum, maybe it will be treated as a more serious problem there.

Product: EA SPORTS™ WRCPlatform:Steam-PCSummarize your bug Everything being black (ground, trees, car and etc.) except sky box.How often does the bug occur? Every time (100%)Steps: How can we find the bug ourselves? On a new career choose to drive the Lancia, during the two first events everything is fine. When inside the third event the bug will appear.What happens when the bug occurs? Everything will be black except the skybox, there is some headlight light being visible far ahead but the stage is unplayable.What do you expect to see? I just expect the stage to not be all black.No clue if it has to do with the game or my pc, i dont really wanna skip the stage because i dont know if the same issue will be at the next stage.

Graphics Issue: Distracting Artifacting, Makes Night Stages Impossible

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FifalCZ
2 years ago
I have the same problem and I have found out that it has something to do with the anisotropic filtering. If you turn it off for night stages, the flickering disappears.
DanielKrt93
2 years ago
I too can confirm this game has a issues with my RX 7900XTX. There are a lot of small black spots popping in on the road momentarily, multiple times per second. Switching off anisotropic filtering didn't fix it for me, but it did make it less apparent.
Auto exposure is also broken, Mexico is unplayable. The road surface is way too bright. I'm using a mod to fix that otherwise the game would burn my eyes out.
rmilianti
2 years ago
@daniellearmouth Anche io riscontrato lo stesso problema
FifalCZ
2 years ago
This is the difference for me - the first picture is without anisotropic filtering, and the second picture is with 16x. On Rally Iberia the difference is even more noticeable.
optionaljack
2 years ago
Hello Support Team,
I've had issues with my AMD 7900 XTX with blackpolygon flickering on the ground of the Track on Night Races. Today I've updated to the newest AMD Drivers and voila the issue is gone. I just wanted to inform you, and i am looking forward to the VR Patch later. Another Issue that seems to be is the anisotropic filtering beeing to sharp or causinj noising effect on the ground, but i disable it in the game and forced it to 16x via the AMD Driver Settings -> Game Profile Settings and this works better to a certain degree. Another thing i noticed that if the shadow quality is set to higher than very low in the night, that shadowcasts from the headlights look very low resolution, somehow this causing the lights to strobe a little bit, even on the ultra settings. on very low it looks somehow better in the night. I hope there will be a way to make shadows from the headlights looking better on ultra than how it is now. I think this should be more important when the VR Patch is coming.
Greetings and have a nice day!
marekzukal
2 years ago
I have the same issue, night stage turns completely black after a few meters.
nVidia GTX 970 driver 546.33
Kamil2177
2 years ago
This happens on GTX 9xx series cards. I had the same problem on GTX 980 Ti and I replaced the card with RTX 3060 and everything works as it should.
Lawstorant
2 years ago
I just confirmed that this is a problem with mip mapping not applying to the road textures (all environments actually?). I changed r.MipMapLODBias to 15.0 which is always the worst quality. This is the confirmation of the setting:
There's just one thing that mip mapping is not applied to. Guess what it is?
Even worse during the night (AA set to low):
Mip mapping seems to not be applied at all or something is missing with it's bias.
Bump mapping seems to be too aggressive and flickery too.
bman4465
5 months ago
Hi,
I just played through the 5 hour trial of WRC 24 with EA Play.
I have the same issues with my 7900 xtx, there are black polygons flickering on the Road structure. Sometimes more and sometimes less and in certain areas of the game there is no problem. I have been trying all different graphics settings under advanced in the game from Ultra Low to Ultra and also tested individual settings but with the same result. I also tried with the settings under basic: with/without vsync, all different options of anisotropic filtering från 2 to 16 and AA from lowest to highest and I don't use any upscaling. I tried with stock settings in AMD Adrenaline too and no overclocking and I even cleared the shader cache from Adrenaline. None of this got rid of the black polygons flickering on the Road structure(They look like blank black textures and is then replaced by correct textures, sometimes they are greyish in color and flickering.) I love this game and is interested in buying it but I would like to know if this problem is still experienced by others and if there is a way to resolve it.
Did not get any good screenshots of this since it was so fun playing and now the 5 hours trial have passed, but I saw earlier in this thread this picture that I have attached to this post that looks very similar to my problem.
I don't have this problem with any other games.

Hope that someone have advice about how to fix this fllickering of black polygons with black or greyish color on the road structure.

Best Regards
bman4465
5 months ago
Hi,
I bought the full version of the game and the problems I experienced in the 5 hour trial version are gone.
Have no idea why there were black polygons flickering on the road structure in the trial version but I'm happy the problem does not exist in the full version.
Best Regards

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