Anyone else having graphics issues post-update?

[finamenon]

I don't think your case diode that is monitoring the temp is right, if the other program says it went up to 120. Try other temperature monitors to be sure.

[miokomioko]

I had recently begun running into some crashing issues and I hadn't done anything different besides work in Photoshop more than usual (though it did recently get an Open GL update). However, this was not while running XIV simultaneously. When playing XIV, I would get a black or random-colored screen, killing XIV, followed by a "graphics drivers failed" kind of error and Windows would end up recovering. I could try to play again but the crash was inevitable and usually within a few minutes of just running to town... though my framerate seem to have improved (Huh??). I have no idea what happened so I got the newest ATI drivers and CCC just to be safe. I started messing with some settings, putting them back to how I had them before I updated, making sure CrossfireX was on. But... the "Enable CrossfireX" box would never stay checked on and the CrossfireX Diagnostics was always blank. So, I left it unchecked... whatever, I guess it was never on all this time.

Ever since that driver/catalyst update, my second monitor had been flickering like crazy every time I did anything on my primary monitor and it was driving me mad. My XIV continued to now freeze my entire system within 5 minutes of running like it was overheating instead of just a driver error (definitely was not overheating). I was getting rather frustrated and ended up eventually going back into the CCC and finding CrossfireX actually checked on even though it acted like it couldn't enable before. I turned it off and my problems are gone again.

What the shit? Does XIV even take advantage of CrossfireX/SLI? Also, I had read that the flickering on a secondary/tertiary monitor could mean that your graphics card(s) can't handle pumping out the resolution to that monitor. Both my monitors are coming out of my primary GPU, so why would CrossfireX being enabled start flickering my secondary monitor and causing XIV to freeze my system? For the flickering, would CrossfireX need me to switch my secondary monitor to the output on my secondary card so they each support one monitor? I would prefer that my two GPUs work together on my primary monitor first and foremost as it is where I do all of my photo work and gaming... but I would also like to get the best performance I can out of this machine as I believe it's capable of a lot more than I'm getting, though I'm not quite sure what I'm doing wrong with the whole CrossfireX shit.


My system specs:

CPU: AMD Phenom II X4 3.5 Ghz
RAM: 8 GB
GPU 1: Radeon HD 5700 (1 GB)
GPU 2: Radeon HD 5700 (1 GB)
OS: Windows 7 64-bit
Dual Monitors, both at 1920x1080

I'm not sure what else would be relevant...

I don't think I have anything over-clocked at the moment, I had been tampering with it recently but I ended up with some instabilities without removing the side panel of my tower, even with a decent Cooler Master fan/sink... then it gets a little noisy. Currently, with XIV running, my temps on both my CPU and GPUs are all about 45~47c which seems rather normal. I feel like my shit gets unstable when it starts hitting the mid/high 50s.

[Drakath]

I skimmed through this thread but didn't see it mentioned: I've noticed that since the update, if I have my camera positioned at a specific point (it has to be looking downwards at my character from above) the game will start to get choppy while I run. The choppiness goes away the moment I change the angle, but comes back the moment I put it back to the same postion. It's pretty weird, but the choppiness isn't so bad it's actually a serious problem. It's just something that definetly never happened before the last update and I was wondering if I was the only one.

[miokomioko]

I skimmed through this thread but didn't see it mentioned: I've noticed that since the update, if I have my camera positioned at a specific point (it has to be looking downwards at my character from above) the game will start to get choppy while I run. The choppiness goes away the moment I change the angle, but comes back the moment I put it back to the same postion. It's pretty weird, but the choppiness isn't so bad it's actually a serious problem. It's just something that definetly never happened before the last update and I was wondering if I was the only one.

I noticed this exact same thing. I want to say it happens when I have the camera at close to a 45 degree angle. Doesn't happen when I have it low or high, mostly just about in the middle. Ugly choppiness.

[Jerseyprophet]

Keep your fingers crossed. I bought a new video card, for 100 bucks. A PNY Verto GeForce GT 220.

It's running the game, although at low everything settings, smooth as can be. And my temperature is a consistent 32 degrees.

I had a parts warranty from Cyberpower PC, and they're going to mail me back a new Radeon when they recieve mine. Best buy has a 100% cash back policy on defective merchandise, so a quick shuffle with socks on the carpet, a static shock, and my cash back.

[Milks]

so uh, i updated to the drivers and got the game running again without the crash...but when i'm on switchable graphics mode, the graphics are screwed up like they are in those screenshots. however, if i go into the bios and set it to discrete graphics mode, the graphics are perfect. what gives?

[Jerseyprophet]

It has to be the software, and or specifically the recent patches. Unfortunately there really isn't any way to send SE feedback that actually gets read to tell them.

[Olo401]

http://lodestone.finalfantasyxiv.com...f97ff39500f74b

We have confirmed an issue wherein users using a certain version of graphics card drivers will experience a white screen when starting up FINAL FANTASY XIV.

If you have experienced such an issue, we ask that you please review your video settings through the FINAL FANTASY XIV Config application, and also update your graphics card drivers.

As of Dec. 20, 2010, we have confirmed the issue with the following graphics card drivers.

- NVIDIA® GeForce® 8, 9, 200, 400 series; Driver Version 260.99
- NVIDIA® GeForce® 500 series; Driver Version 263.09

We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.

Great.. and I just upgraded to 260.99 too. That explains the wild artifacting at least.

[Milks]

meh, my laptop is running a 5650m, so its not just nvidia drivers having issues...

[Purrrfect]

so uh, i updated to the drivers and got the game running again without the crash...but when i'm on switchable graphics mode, the graphics are screwed up like they are in those screenshots. however, if i go into the bios and set it to discrete graphics mode, the graphics are perfect. what gives?

That sounds a lot like something another poster was talking about way back trying to get the benchmark or alpha to run on their macbook I think. Something about it having 2 different video units in the system or something, sorry don't remember the specifics. I imagine the switchable mode lets the bios share memory with video+ram, whereas the discrete locks a certain part for video.

Also I just updated from catalyst 10.10 to 10.12 last night and it seems to me from a short play that it is loading the gpu quite a bit more than it used to. Haven't seen any visual problems though, and my 5850 gets up to about 75C with it set to 900mhz which isn't really too surprising. I agree with whoever said dude's temp sensor wasn't reading the right temp at all. If it ran to 120C before crashing that's pretty amazing actually lol.