Recently came back to playing GW2, and I remember back at the beginning I had an issue with small squares appearing on textures. After all these years I come back and the issue is still here! The thing that puzzles me is that this is not an issue that only I have experienced, I have watched videos on youtube with people using the same spec laptop as I am and they also have this issue. It seems that GW2 software is incompatible with the 540m graphics card?
I have done literally EVERY SINGLE THING to try and fix this issue. This ONLY happens in GW2 and NO OTHER GAME. My graphics card is NOT OVERHEATING either. It is NOT OVERCLOCKED.
Some things which I’ve tried:
- updating graphics drivers with clean installs
- repairing GW2
- playing with Nvidia settings
- playing with the ingame settings
- running the program in compatibility mode, as administrator
- reinstalling GW2
I’m attaching my dxdiag. Before you say it, GW2 is running on my dedicated graphics card.
This issue is especially visible on stairs and sharp edges. It rarely happens on terrain. It usually happens on props and especially any sort of mines. I would also LOVE to know the technicalities behind something like this. Why would this happen only in one game and why is specific to textures at an angle?
I’d also like to add that I felt extreme neglect on the part of anet team, as there was little to no interest in the thread whatsoever aside from the “post your dxdiag” post. I’d love for some awareness on this.
Just had a small breakthrough, I figured out whats causing the issue – the setting Render Sampling when set to anything below supersampling is causing these artifacts. The thing is I can’t run the game smoothly on anything above Native. What could be causing this? Is it something in my nvidia settings that I have to change?
Another thing I’ve noticed that even if I have Supersampling on Render sampling and reduce the resolution, as soon as I go below my native resolution these artifacts seem to come back.
On my machine, if I enable either version of the new SMAA antialiasing options, the flashing squares go away. Not a fix, but maybe this work around would also work for you?
