I managed to fix mine by changing to 720p until I reached a checkpoint then back to 1080p. Sorted!

its not the systems fault... its simply the engine...

I'm not saying it's the systems fault...it would help them pinpoint causes though.
maybe the engine reacts differently to fat or slim.

Anyone with the slim experiencing this?

I have a 250 GB Slim and it started with the first raining level and only got worse from there. None of the suggested fixes worked and it never goes away - it only got more blocky and more wavy. Frankly, the game looks terrible it so muddy and dirty looking. I want to and could love this game but the MP issues and this huge blocky film grain and wavy lines currently is ruining it for me.

I wish Crytek would say something about a list of known issues, because I feel like trading it in - everytime I think about playing it (the campaign on the hardest difficulty or MP), I'm completely turned off by the grain and randomness of MP hits detection and/or gun damage, then I just go play Reach instead because the online just works like it should.

Since i don't have time to sift through 24 pages, I'll tack on this video link that demonstrates the glitch.
Two great evident pics and a video...what more does Crytek need to at least post a reply on this issue.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8d_CHC5fXc0&feature=player_embedded

Well whatever...just trying to help.

I'm giving this game 2 weeks...if this issue isn't addressed by then...I'm moving on to other games.

I and I think all of us appreciate any help, but we have been over your suggestion already. It is not system specific or config specific. It's the game period. Once again, we appreciate the help, but the only one who can really help on this issue is Crytek.


Or trading standards.

Have you tried my fix (above)?

Have you tried my fix (above)?

I will try your fix if you come back here from a day or so of playing Crysis2 and let us know that the 'Grain Glitch' hasn't reoccured.

Keep us updated John23

Lorenso your a gimp!

I too am having this grain glitch problem, noticed it first on skyline looking at the blue sky, looks like tiny rectangles, so i jumped in a private match on the same map right away and it was gone.... came back though soon after, this along with framerate issues are really ruining the quality of the game ;/

xbox 360 slim 250gb
hdmi/720p
panasonic 32inch.

The solution to this is to lower your lightning on your game settings but rise it on your TV settings.
It works for me!

that doesn't work either

when you go into nano vision it's still as plain as day

Are they going to fix this bug? Have they even acknowledged it or what?

I'm sick of this bug now. I actually don't want to play the game because of it. I'm deliberatly not playing the game because of it. It really does make it look bad, especially in nanovision. In nanovision it's just plain awful.

The Replay Mission "workaround" doesn't work properly either. First time I tried it, it worked. The interference/noise bug started again when I was halfway through Semper Fi or Die. Now the workaround isn't working.

What's the deal here with it?

I found a way to temporary fix the "Grain/Static Bug" problem:

**Method 1** When you see it turn off your console. Restart the game, go to the Main Menu, and reload the Campaign Chapter you were playing from the beginning with "Repeat Mission". You will get the default weapons of the level, but the bug will disappear.
It seems to be a problem with "Resumed Savegames" in the middle of the levels...


**Method 2 (if Method 1 doesn't work for you)** Turn Off your Console. Restart the game, go to Multiplayer->Private Match, and launch a Private game with only you inside. Just let the map load, and go around the map. The problem should disapear (even on Campaign side, just reload the Chapter from the Beginning like in Method 1)

Let me know if it works for you. It worked for me

Hope it works for you too...

Honestly, do you guys think this will get fixed?

Is it possible that they will say "screw everyone with a xbox we dont care"...i sure hope not. This bug drives me insane, its really keeping me from loving this game. I advised two people not to buy it yet due to the grain..

^^^They better not say "screw 360" since like every other game this gen it will outsell the PS3 version 3/1.

Seems like a purposeful way for EA to once again show favortism to PS3 by purposely leaving the 360 version gimped. It's not our fault Sony makes backwards ass hardware with lack of RAM and a GPU with half the features of the 360's but we're the ones paying for it and it's an easy way for EA to make the PS3 hardware seem better by intentionally screwing up and holding back the 360 version.

Not just the grain bugs and such, the entire game has an overall cheap look to it like all PS3 games with low res textures, lots of jaggies, flickering on all objects in the distance, lots of pop-in and grain to cover up all of this. And I've never seen a 360 grain with this awful type of shadows but plenty in all my time on PS3 since early 2007.

360 is capable of so much more than this game even when it isn't glitching up. Just look at Bioshock, Gears 1/2 and Farcry 2 and tell me the PS3 didn't hold this game back on all platforms then tell me EA and Crytek didn't intentionally put this or leave this grain bug in to save face on PS3 after all their talk over the years of all versions being identical and the "power of PS3" bull****. There's better looking games on 360 from 2007 and this game would look so much better if Crytek focused on 360 instead of what looks to be a PS3 port to 360 with all these issues that PS3 games usually have. When's the last time a 360 game ran at a low framerate like this? I'll wait because you can go through the entire library and you won't find one UNLESS it was ported from PS3 in which even then the 360 version turns out better 9 times out of 10.

How this conspriracy theory hasn't been put together yet makes me wonder if anyone else actually owns both consoles and really sees the difference in what they both do. Because if you did, you'd fully agree with me on this one. Especially after how bad the PS3 demo was and right away Crytek and EA both scrambled to save face on the situation. PS3 games usually look good when they're very scripted, linear and pushing you quickly past everything as to not give up it's smoke and mirrors tricks. This game doesn't do that and look how it turned out on both consoles. We got a port from PS3 ensuring the 360 RAM and graphics card were not utilised beyond what the PS3's more outdated graphics card and half the RAM could do.

Yet they've said nothing about how awful this problem is on 360 when they would be scrambling to remedy the situation if it were the PS3 version with the problem. See where I'm going with this?

They used a high end PC engine and downscaled the product for the 360 and PS3; that's the result. If you just look at the first Gears of War on 360, it looked sharper than Crysis 2.

I really don't care about the 10 000 details if I can't even see them properly at a few meters away, because there is too much film grain, crappy depth of field, post process or lack of anti-aliasing. (well I resumed Call of Duty and Crysis 2 MP)

As a game dev, a designer, I once asked to our programmers what platform was best to develop games of amazing quality. They answered:

''In an ideal world with a team made of multiple geniuses and with a very long production time, the PS3 would be a better platform. In the real world, the 360 is a great platform to develop games.''

Still, I would like to see a FPS that really pushes the 360 hardware to the limit, but also offer smooth frame rate, clean and sharp graphics (unlike Crysis 2).