FEAR and 3dmark06 issues

[SiiRuHs]

FEAR -
The performance test runs as expected but when starting an actual single or multiplayer game, walls don't render (results in characters floating in black space) and runs at less than 1fps. I've tried running at minimum system system/video settings, no luck. The performance test timedemo runs fine, I've tried over and underclocking the system, other games run fine. Quake 2/3/4, Doom 3, HL/cstrike, all good.

3dmark06 -
test 2 (firefly) demo halts just after loading, before anything is rendered. dxerror OutOfVideoMemory.

System:
7800GT/NF41 EVGA combo
3200+ (venice)
xfi audio (in game mode)
using the onboard NIC
2x512 OCZ platinum (2.5-3-3, 2T since 1T won't fly)

Using latest video/mobo drivers, latest video/mobo BIOS, and out of ideas. System is otherwise stable. I've gone through FEAR tech support but they weren't any help.

 

[Humble_Magii]

Check the fear boards official ones they have stickies of any problems for the devs to respond to. This could be one of them I am at work atm but will link you once I get a chance .

 

[Brent_Justice]

got the latest patch for FEAR installed 1.02?

make sure soft shadows is OFF ?

maybe try uninstall and re-install of game and drivers

 

[SiiRuHs]

Thanks for the feedback.

I've tried it with everything down to the lowest settings (i.e. looks like original HL but still less than 1fps in game mode, flies in the timedemo)

Tried reinstalling

It is 1.02

Checked the FEAR message boards, it seems my problem is unique. Yay.

 

[heatlesssun]

Have you tried turining down all settings, textures, resolution, physiscs and see if then the game works? Then try tuning stuff up until you can isolate what's causing the problem.

 

[SiiRuHs]

I've tried it with everything down to the lowest settings (i.e. looks like original HL but still less than 1fps in game mode, flies in the timedemo).

Yep, 640x480 and everything looks quite terrible, minfps in timedemo is 78 but in single player or multiplayer the walls don't render at all (characters floating in black space) and it's well under 1fps in the opening scenes. Actual game is even worse.

 

[kyaku00x]

did the problems with FEAR start after you installed 3DMark06? because after i installed 3dmark06 hl2:lost coast bloom effects and water reflections started acting funny (flickering and freezing). after i rebooted my machine (I thought since 3dmark06 installed a DX9c december update, so to get things functional again a reboot might be inorder) all went back to normal. I'll test FEAR to see if there are any problems.

edit: checked FEAR and its running ok.

 

[SiiRuHs]

The problems with FEAR came first, about 2 weeks ago. I only tried 3dmark06 the other day and the fact it also had problems got me digging around again.