Flashy dots when i walk around : Fallout: New Vegas

» Mon Dec 07, 2009 9:39 pm

I have these flashy things when i move around. Sometimes they turn into black squares..
My gpu is a gtx 460 (sli). I disabled sli but the flash thing continues.
Running at maximum settings (1920x1080). Didn't try to disable HDR yet.

Edit: Took a http://img508.imageshack.us/img508/6613/falloutnv20101019085148.jpg.

Windows 7 (64bits)
i5 760 (3,6ghz)
Sli GTX 460 1gb (stock clocks)
4gb Ram

Latest driver 260.89. Did a clean install.

» Mon Dec 07, 2009 11:18 pm

Same exact problem.

Windows 7 64bit
AMD 550BE OC'd @ 3.5Ghz
MSI GTX 460 HAWK 1GB
6GB DDR3

Latest Nvidia drivers (260.89) w/ clean install as well.

» Tue Dec 08, 2009 12:00 am

Same thing here

Win 7 64bit
i7 970 3.2GHz
GTX 460
8gb RAM

Latest Nvidia drivers

» Tue Dec 08, 2009 9:38 am

Same here.

Was using the latest betas, switched to WHQL and now I see major performance issues. But the flashing white/black boxes remain.

Windows 7 64bit
i7 860
GTX 480
4GB RAM

This problem seems to be AA related. Disabling AA, I haven't seen them again.

» Tue Dec 08, 2009 1:08 pm

I'm noticing the white flashes as well, almost as if there's camera flashes and I notice some edges of objects have fine white pixel like spots.

My system is:
Windows 7 64bit
i5 750
GTX 470
4GB RAM

Running the latest WHQL Nvidia drivers myself.

» Tue Dec 08, 2009 3:42 am

Wonder if it's a 400 series only issue.

» Mon Dec 07, 2009 11:35 pm

This problem seems to be AA related. Disabling AA, I haven't seen them again.

Agreed. Same results after disabling AA.

Was using the latest betas, switched to WHQL and now I see major performance issues. But the flashing white/black boxes remain.

So, you're gotten better New Vegas performance with the 260.93 beta drivers?

» Tue Dec 08, 2009 10:40 am

Same problem,

I see white flashing randomly on the screen. Never happened in Fo3

I am running 3 GTX 480's with the latest drivers

» Tue Dec 08, 2009 5:10 am

I Found the problem.

It is HDR in the options menu causing it.

Simply change HDR to Bloom or None to fix this problem.

A shame as I like the look of HDR much more then Bloom.

Note to the DEV team, can you please look into HDR on the Nvidia 400 Series?

» Tue Dec 08, 2009 9:40 am

I Found the problem.

It is HDR in the options menu causing it.

Simply change HDR to Bloom or None to fix this problem.

A shame as I like the look of HDR much more then Bloom.

Note to the DEV team, can you please look into HDR on the Nvidia 400 Series?

Yeah, I can confirm this as well the white dots go away with Bloom, but HDR did look so much better.

» Tue Dec 08, 2009 9:05 am

I Found the problem.

It is HDR in the options menu causing it.

Note to the DEV team, can you please look into HDR on the Nvidia 400 Series?

If it is nVIDIA only, and not also reported by Radeon users, you should be addressing nVIDIA's software engineers, I believe.

» Tue Dec 08, 2009 1:15 pm

If it is nVIDIA only, and not also reported by Radeon users, you should be addressing nVIDIA's software engineers, I believe.

Guess Nvidia will have to release newer drivers if FO:NV is not at fault here. Which it does appear to be a nvidia only issue.

» Tue Dec 08, 2009 7:06 am

GTX 460 - flashy dots

» Tue Dec 08, 2009 12:32 am

Ran into same issue. Tried disabling HDR and did not resolve the issue, but disabling AA did.

System:
Windows 7 x64
Core i7 965 3.2
2 GTX480 in SLI mode
6 GB RAM

Drivers - WHQL 260.89

Will also bounce over the the Nvidia forums and see if it's been reported/discussed there.

» Tue Dec 08, 2009 11:47 am

same here

EVGA GTX 465 SC
260.89 beta
card keeps underclocking itself at times while running New Vegas

this is New vegas specific. no similar issue in other games.

» Tue Dec 08, 2009 12:44 am

Same Prob. GTX480

» Tue Dec 08, 2009 2:16 am

I have a GTX 460 and I get the same flashy dots and sparkling edges. If I disable anti aliasing they go away, but the game looks bad w/o it. . Tried latest beta and nonbeta drivers w/o any change. Obviously a 400 series nvidia issue.

» Tue Dec 08, 2009 9:38 am

I have a GTX 460 and I get the same flashy dots and sparkling edges. If I disable anti aliasing they go away, but the game looks bad w/o it. The game works fine on my other computer with a gt 260. Tried latest beta and nonbeta drivers w/o any change. Obviously a 400 series nvidia issue.

people with 200's are having issues too. its more than likely a nvidia specific issue regarding drivers.

this means we might be sol until the next iteration of drivers

» Tue Dec 08, 2009 7:44 am

I disabled AA from the in-game options, and then forced AA from my Nvidia control panel, and that seems to have solved this particular issue.

» Tue Dec 08, 2009 6:26 am

I disabled AA from the in-game options, and then forced AA from my Nvidia control panel, and that seems to have solved this particular issue.

I am not able to get my nvidia control panel to force anti aliasing on when it's turned off in the game prefs.

» Tue Dec 08, 2009 7:19 am

I am having the same issue as you all are having. I haven't been able to get the nvidia control panel settings to take in-game, global or game specific. The problem does go away with AA off but it looks awful. I haven't tried turning HDR off but I would rather have the weirdness than no HDR

» Tue Dec 08, 2009 3:37 am

I am having the same issue as you all are having. I haven't been able to get the nvidia control panel settings to take in-game, global or game specific. The problem does go away with AA off but it looks awful. I haven't tried turning HDR off but I would rather have the weirdness than no HDR

So between the massive NPC related slow downs on older NVIDIA cards and the anti aliasing issues on newer ones.... this game is non-NVIDIA playable. Yay!

» Tue Dec 08, 2009 1:34 pm

GTX 460 1GB on Windows XP. I'm tempted to install my 8800 GTX to see if a much older card has the same issue.

» Tue Dec 08, 2009 1:42 pm

im having the exact same issue. i feel like a movie star walking down the red carpet with all these flashing light bulbs...minus the movie star paycheck.

obsidian you svck, can you make one game that is not a total nightmare to play??

Phenom II x4 CPU
GTX 460 - video card
Win 7 64bit - OS

» Tue Dec 08, 2009 5:36 am

After using the DX9 fix, the HDR+AA white flashy dots has gotten better. They are still there, but to a lesser extent. I hate using bloom, so I might just put up with them assuming they don't get worse.

I wonder though, if dropping a different .dll in the folder fixed the NPC slow down problem, is there something that we can "drop in" to fix this problem? FO3 and Oblivion didn't have this problem for me, so it makes me wonder.