Can't believe the issue of flickering NPC faces during cutscenes has still not been fixed.

[Vik]

The game has been out on PC for half a year now and this issue has been prevalent in my playthrough. From what I found online, it has been present since launch and its unbelievable that it still has not been fixed. The face textures just kinda blink in and out and the faces turn pitch black when that happens like the texture did not load at all. Its very off putting. The face textures look fine outside of cutscenes though. When is Nixxes going to fix it? The game runs fine otherwise apart from a few random crashes that I've had. Are there other current players who are experiencing this?

[kotor_fan]

Disabling Nvidia reflex fixed the issue permanently for me. Try it.

It was one random post in another thread about same issue, when it occurred next time in cutscene for me, I paused game, found Nvidia reflex option, turned it off, bam, black faces textures gone and never came back.
Their body armor still shined like beacon for angels sometimes, but faces were always fine.

There are some other recommendations for Shader, Cache etc., but none worked for me.
And yes, it's annoying.

[longjohn119]

It's a Nvidia driver issue and the same thing happens with Zero Dawn Remastered. Downgrade the drivers to 561.09 or below should fix it.

[kotor_fan]

Originally posted by russell_john:

It's a Nvidia driver issue and the same thing happens with Zero Dawn Remastered. Downgrade the drivers to 561.09 or below should fix it.

I was on the old drivers and updated them to try and resolve the issue.
So not necessarily drivers.

Again, there's 2nd thread with 3 pages of comments and lots of suggestions, drivers were mentioned as well, yes.

[Vik]

Not sure exactly what it is. I'll try turning reflex off but thats not an ideal solution. Its one of the best features of modern games and I'd prefer it on.

[kotor_fan]

Originally posted by Vik:

Not sure exactly what it is. I'll try turning reflex off but thats not an ideal solution. Its one of the best features of modern games and I'd prefer it on.

Take a look at "Flickering facepaint on Tenakth/black faces" thread (currently on page 3).
There were lots of suggestions and things to try recommended there.

I just took easy way out with Reflex. If you don't mind spending time, there are more time-consuming things you can do to try and fix it (that also worked for some).
Best of luck

[darktime7676]

Originally posted by kotor_fan:

Disabling Nvidia reflex fixed the issue permanently for me. Try it.

It was one random post in another thread about same issue, when it occurred next time in cutscene for me, I paused game, found Nvidia reflex option, turned it off, bam, black faces textures gone and never came back.
Their body armor still shined like beacon for angels sometimes, but faces were always fine.

There are some other recommendations for Shader, Cache etc., but none worked for me.
And yes, it's annoying.

Thank. That's work