Certain textures flicker in Windows 7 and Windows Vista

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Oh, i'm sure he can find tons of useful information in that wall of text :p.

For the record, I have the exact same problem.

lol @ above.

You're not alone, this isn't a driver issue. I never see this on non windows 7/vista. Same hardware and XP, no flicker.

Thankfully it's a really minor issue and doesn't always show up (sometimes it depends on the angle and camera distance) but when you're idling or not doing anything intensive, it's something that you see sticking out.

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Originally Posted by Alhanelem

lol @ above.

You're not alone, this isn't a driver issue. I never see this on non windows 7/vista. Same hardware and XP, no flicker.

Thankfully it's a really minor issue and doesn't always show up (sometimes it depends on the angle and camera distance) but when you're idling or not doing anything intensive, it's something that you see sticking out.

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Also depends on the angle of the "sun" lightsource in the zone as well. eg. the entrance to the area just in front of the guidestone in Jeuno as you run toward it from outside if you are the right distance from it and it's the right time of day.

Are you useing a wireless connection? If so that is the problem. I dont see any problems in the dxidag either. and sorry it took me a few days to respond back. i used a wireless connection to see if that caused the flickering and that was the cause it also would freeze for 1 or 2 seconds.

Why would an unstable network connection cause graphical glitches like we see here? It makes no sense.

To describe the bug, imagine looking at a bird (a roc). Look at the feathers, now imagine that the game can't make up its mind about which feathers are supposed to be on top of other feathers, so it changes continuously. Like way back when some games had z-buffer issues that caused the game to display things even if they were in reality obstructed by other, closer objects.

If anything, suggesting that this error is related to wireless networks indicates that you have no real idea about what sort of problem this is-

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Originally Posted by Mirage

Why would an unstable network connection cause graphical glitches like we see here? It makes no sense.

To describe the bug, imagine looking at a bird (a roc). Look at the feathers, now imagine that the game can't make up its mind about which feathers are supposed to be on top of other feathers, so it changes continuously. Like way back when some games had z-buffer issues that caused the game to display things even if they were in reality obstructed by other, closer objects.

If anything, suggesting that this error is related to wireless networks indicates that you have no real idea about what sort of problem this is-

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I'm not using a wireless router but what you said basically.

I've already figured out the cause as stated in my original post. The problem is that SE will have to fix their damn game to get rid of the problem because there's nothing the user can do except limit his graphics card to Shader Model v1.4 or less using the registry settings (you can do this with ATI cards, not sure about Nvidia) or use a video card that only supports shader model 1.4, assuming you can even get a Vista/Win7 driver for it, and that's NOT an acceptable solution because it disables Windows Aero and anything else that needs Shader Model 2.0 or higher.

I think the problem might be related to Windows 7 and Windows Vista not having "real" DirectX 8. It's my understanding that in Windows Vista and Windows 7 D3D8.dll is a wrapper. Basically it's emulating DirectX 8 by converting the API calls into DirextX 9

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Originally Posted by Atomic_Skull

I think the problem might be related to Windows 7 and Windows Vista not having "real" DirectX 8. It's my understanding that in Windows Vista and Windows 7 D3D8.dll is a wrapper. Basically it's emulating DirectX 8 by converting the API calls into DirextX 9

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This ^

Need more fix to dx9

wall of text ._.

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Originally Posted by Kaida

This ^

Need more fix to dx9

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SE might be able to make some adjustments to the shaders to fix this. It seems that when pixel and vertex shaders higher than v1.4 are available the flickering happens. My first thought was that Vista/Windows 7 was possibly using Shader Model 2.0 instead of 1.4 when wrapping DirectX 8 to DirectX 9.