GeForce GTX 680 - Graphic Glitches - Icons

[Eld_Deran]

Hi there! Luckily I do not experience all the game crashes with the GTX 680 that others are having, but I do have an annoying glitch:

The icons in-game seems to have broken transparency. I can see the icon, but the transparent areas of it is completely pitch black. This happens in the menus and dialogs that show items, inventory, gear, etc.

In addition, the action icons on the bottom of the screen is only semi-transparent, creating a thick dark stripe where they overlap.

The rest of the graphics seem to have no issue at all for me.

An image is worth a thousand words:


Note: The red boxes were drawn by me to highlight the problems.

I have also reported it on the nVidia Forum and in that post attached a much larger image for a better view.

Card: Single GeForce GTX 680
Driver: v301.42
OS: Windows 7 Prof x64

[Eekiki]

Are you using the FFXIV program settings in the NVIDIA Control Panel?

I'm using a GTX670 (just upgraded last weekend!), and this doesn't occur for me.

[Eld_Deran]

All the nVidia Control Panel settings are default, except for VSync which I enabled.

Ambient Occlusion: Not supported for this application
Anisotropic filtering: Application-controlled
Antialiasing - FXAA: Off
Antialiasing - Gamma correction: On
Antialiasing - Mode: Application-controlled
Antialiasing - Setting: Application-controlled
Antialiasing - Transparency: Multisample
CUDA - GPUs: All
Maximum pre-rendered frames: Use the 3D application setting
Multi-display/mixed-GPU acceleration: Multiple display performance
Power management mode: Adaptive
Texture filtering - Anisotropic sample optimization: Off
Texture filtering - Negative LOD bias: Allow
Texture filtering - Quality: Quality
Texture filtering - Trilinear optimization: On
Threaded optimization: Auto
Triple buffering: Off
Vertical Sync: On

[Eekiki]

Could also be something wrong with DirectX. You may try running the update.

http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/downl...ils.aspx?id=35

It's a long shot, but you never know.

[Eld_Deran]

Tried it, and got a message that the latest version of DirectX is already installed, install aborted.

[Zien]

If you haven't tried already, reinstall drivers but choose custom install and put a check mark on clean installation.

[Eld_Deran]

I have uninstalled 301.42, removed all the nVidia folders I could find, and all the nVidia registry settings.

Installed the new 304.48 beta drivers.

The icons draw correctly, transparency and all. So I set out to figure it out. Tried every setting in the nVidia control panel one at a time. Finally, I think I found the trigger:

Anialiasing - Transparency: Multi-sample

With that enabled I get the same problem. Disable it and it works again! Strangely, it was disabled with the older drivers. I remember checking it explicitly. Edit: Actually, I had it on multisample before as well. Oops.