I would like to let anyone who has this problem know that I have found a solution:
In your graphics option, switch from Full Screen resolution to Windowed Full Screen resolution and this will solve the problem. You can leave all your other settings on max.
You will not lose any FPS. I have 105 FPS while staring in the distance in the same spot with both options.
I see these weird black lines over textures in game when I log in and when I switch zones. I can make them dissapear by going in the graphics option and turning VSync on and off because that reloads the UI I think, but I’d like to find a way to no longer have them.
Just to be clear VSync is not causing this. I can have it on and this happens, or I can have it off and it happens, I just toggle it between on and off to reload my UI and make the black lines dissapear.
LOD. Level Of Detail. It’s the distance at which games use lower resolution textures instead of using the high resolution stuff, it’s to save memory and performance. Yours is set to Ultra so it should be using slightly higher resolution textures but it doesn’t load them immediately because you haven’t MOVED yet. If your character moves it should load the textures in.
Even if I move they’re still there. If I move close to them some of them dissapear, but as soon as I get far away again they reappear. It’s only if I do the VSync check on/off thing that all of them get fixed permanently (until I switch zones).
Either way, it shouldn’t do this because my LOD is set to Ultra. I have streaming files set to MAX and even have texture cache turned on from the Nvidia control panel, and the game itself should have a texture cache from which to load.
Streaming files is an update download thing, not a texture stream. The last update introduced quite a few bugs, can you tell me if this happened before the update or only after? If it’s after, it’s probably that gw2 is defaulting some of the in-game settings while remembering the UI position/setting of the entry itself.
Like the FOV slider, it remembers the slider position but the game itself is still using the default value for the actual FOV – I have to adjust the FOV slider every game session. Perhaps try to adjust the LOD setting to something else and see if it does the same thing.
I tried all LOD stages it still does it. This is definitely a bug. I don’t know before since I only came back to GW2 with the latest patch, but it didn’t use to do it back when I bought the game.
I had a GeForce 8600M back then now I have a GeForce 970, so obviously the settings I play now on are much different than they were then.
Here’s another clearer example. I tried lowering all the settings but it still does it. It also does it every time I alt-tab, it’s getting pretty annoying.
Well I never have any problems in other games with my current Nvidia drivers and my installations have always gone flawlessly so I doubt it’s a driver installation problem, but I can try a -repair, although like I said, the textures look fine most of the time, but it’s as if there’s a setting somewhere that shows those lines when i swap zones or alt tab.
I would like to let anyone who has this problem know that I have found a solution:
In your graphics option, switch from Full Screen resolution to Windowed Full Screen resolution and this will solve the problem. You can leave all your other settings on max.
You will not lose any FPS. I have 105 FPS while staring in the distance in the same spot with both options.
