Help! Black Blocks on horizon! pics of problem incl.

[Bounder!]

Hi BadPat,

I had a read of your updated forum post, still no joy with the black blocks appearing in game.

I did a google search of the problem "black blocks in game graphics" which yields a number other threads discussing this problem in a number of different games. I would suggest trying the same and reading around a bit. I think I had covered many of the suggestions from these sorts of threads - in general people suggested either driver software conflicts or hardware problems including overheating or dying / defective graphics card(s) (where the game in question was perhaps pushing the graphics card to it's limit). As I said in my previous reply, I have the same graphics card as you with a similar spec pc, so in theory it should be capable of running CoD without such problems.

Something that would be useful to know and would help in diagnostics would be the nature and appearance of black blocks - namely, do they appear whenever you load the game or do they appear during the game, that is, over time?

I hope other forum users can pitch in as I have limited knowledge and have never personally come across this problem before, maybe others may have a better idea as what is causing the problem.

Best of luck, I know the pain and hope you can get it fixed!

[GF_Mastiff]

I would bet bad card RMA it and get another.

[FFCW_Urizen]

Please go to

http://www.techpowerup.com/gpuz

and download the tool GPU-Z. After downloading, unpack it to a folder of your desire and run it as an administrator (!).

go to the sensors tab, you should see something similar like



You see that black arrow next to GPU temperature, click and make sure log to file is checked (for now we only need to log temperatures, feel free to add the others later on for your own convenience). Why this is necessary, i´ll explain later.

now start clod and run the black death, after completion, close clod and click that black arrow again, choose "Show Highest Reading" (and that´s why it has to be logged ) and post its value in here or you can make a snapshot of gpu-z using the cam symbol and upload it right from there, giving you a link to post it here.

I might be wrong, but it could be hardwarerelated, so we start by ruling out your GPU.

[BadPat]

Thank you all for the info!

The problem is only when I am in the cockpit and is immediate, not over time.
The blocks only flicker on the horizon, the water(which looks awesome BTW) and the sky look OK. The problem doesn't improve or worsen over time. The menus run fine.

Here is the requested GPU-Z snap, thanks for the time and info FFCW Urizen.



I really hope its not a hardware problem. No other game suffers any issues and I run them all at 1680x1050, including FSX.

I have e-mailed Ubisoft support without answer yet. I'll keep you all posted.

Thanks again!

[6BL Bird-Dog]

Try turning Anti-Aliasing down to x 2 or even off both in the game video setup
and in Catalyst Control Center.I remeber way back this solved the problem in other games so it is worth a try.