[1.07] Graphics bug - completely unplayable

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I'm running an ATI Radeon 5600 HD.  Whenever I get into the game proper, I've got a huge spitball of shifting, blinking graphics artifacts all over the center of the screen.  I can zoom in and out, and it looks like the junk only covers the areas NOT covered by the fog of war, and are "projected" from the left (as though there's a point off to the left where they're being generated from).  I can see the game's graphics under the junk, but they're so bad as to render the game completely unplayable.  I've updated my drivers, to no avail.  Anyone else had this problem?  

I also have to say it's extremely disappointing to buy a game and find it not merely buggy, but completely unready for release.  

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Reply #1 from Elemental Forums Top

Please open your debug.err file in notepad, and link the contents into a post here via pastebin. This will give us some technical information that can help troubleshoot your problem.

The file can be found in My Documents\My Games\Elemental

Be sure to copy the debug immediately after the error occurs; if you start the game again, the debug log will be erased and recreated for the new session.

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Reply #3 from Elemental Forums Top

The pastebin link for my debug.err file is:  http://pastebin.ca/1935242

Lots of warnings therein about being unable to find 'lambert2SG' and 'InitialShadingGroup'.

@ArcaneBoozery:  They artifacts look similar, although in my case it's the whole landscape blowing up, not just particular elements of scenery and such.  Also, mine takes place immediately, as soon as I start a game, every time.

 

Reply #4 from Elemental Forums Top

Did a complete reinstall; did nothing to fix the problem.

Reply #5 from Elemental Forums Top

Can you check what temperature your GPU is running at when this occurs? If you don't have a temperature monitor currently, ATITool will allow you to do this.

Reply #6 from Elemental Forums Top

My GPU bumps up about 5 degrees (from 46-47C at idle to 51-52C) while running Elemental.

 

FYI, ATITool doesn't run under Windows 7, although I found a gadget (GPU Observer) that does the same thing.

 

Thank you for your help and attention.

 

 

Reply #7 from Elemental Forums Top

Those temps are fine, you don't have to worry about that until they get into the upper 80's. Kryo, the ATI driver also has a temp indicator in the ATI Overdrive section.