Ghraphic Issue with FC2

[Thehouse82]

Hi, there. I seem to be having some Graphical issues with FC2. Lately I've been building some A-10 night missions for me and a friend to play online. Whenever I start a mission on my Laptop, everything outside the cockpit is flickering on the runway. It does this during the daytime missions as well. Here are some screenshots so you can see what I'm talking about.

 

 

 

Another issue I've been having is whenever you look down in the cockpit, there's some kind of texture flickering in the front of the cockpit. The affected area is highlighted in a red circle.

 

 

I think it might have something to do with the part of the cockpit you see while viewing the plane at a different angle.

 

 

I even updated my Graphics Drivers and installed the latest patch for this game. Do you guys think there's a way to fix this issue?

 

Computer Specs:

 

Dell Inspiron Laptop w/ Intel Core i5-2450M CPU @ 2.50 GHz

8 GB Ram

Intel HD Graphics 3000

Windows 7 Home Premium 64 Bit

 

Thanks, and plz reply as soon as you can.

[Kuky]

erm... you are using GPU on board the CPU for this flight sim? Not a good thing as that GPU is very basic, maybe it lacks some features that dedicated video card has and the sim needs... but this is just my guess as I don't know much about GPU on CPU die. Also don't think anyone here uses it to play this flight sim

[Thehouse82]

Ok, Thanks!

[EtherealN]

erm... you are using GPU on board the CPU for this flight sim? Not a good thing as that GPU is very basic, maybe it lacks some features that dedicated video card has and the sim needs... but this is just my guess as I don't know much about GPU on CPU die. Also don't think anyone here uses it to play this flight sim

 

It's not strictly that itr doesn't have the features - the new HD series iGPUs do have them. The problem is that their texture filtering pipeline is... well... shit. :P

 

Compare the following two:

That's a Radeon HD6620G, one of the iGPU's that AMD uses. The filtering result here is almost perfect: what is being rendered is a cylindrical tunnel and the colors indicate the texture filtering that gets applied to the wall textures at various distances.

 

And that is the Intel HD 3000. Quite simply the worst possible result ever. If possible, try to disable texture filtering.

 

(Pictures stolen from http://techreport.com/review/21099/amd-a8-3500m-fusion-apu/11 )

Edited December 24, 2012 by EtherealN

[Thehouse82]

Can I disable the texture filtering in the game, or do I have to do it on my Intel HD card?

[EtherealN]

I believe you have to do it at the driver.

 

You can also doublecheck your drivers - a dxdiag file would help there. Perhaps you're lucky enough that getting a new driver will be enough.

[RetardedViciousPanda]

If you have an additional video card in your laptop, then you most likely need to setup a profile in the GPU's config to run the game using the dedicated GPU instead of the Intel HD graphics. For example, I had the same problem running A-10 with my laptop (Lenovo Y580) initially until I setup a profile in Nvidia Control Panel pointing to the A-10 exe's.

 

This then brings up the question: what laptop do you have? I can share my Nvidia profile if you have an nvidia card, but can't help you if you have an ATI one. Still should be fairly simple to setup.