Textures not loading/blocky?

[ReKoNr]

Hi all,

This is literally the first time I've (needed to) posted in the steam discussions for any game but I need some help.

When I start a new game, there seems to be various missing textures from npc clothing, walls, ground, foliage etc. Additionally, textures for smoke and clouds in particular appear blocky, like I'm playing a game from the PS1 days. Honestly it's so bad I cannot immerse myself into the game and knowing that it should not look like this, I refuse to play.

I have already tried the 'no more texture pop in' mod on nexusmods by changing certain values to match my gpu vram etc but to no avail.

Has anyone experienced this issue or know of it? Know of any fixes?

Help greatly appreciated as I am keen to play this game for the first time.

Specs:

Ryzen 5 3600 @ 4.2GHz
RX 5700XT - @ Stock
Corsair Vengeance 16GB 3200MHz via XMP
Sabrent Rocket Q 1TB Nvme

Tried running on Ultra High, Very High and @ 1440P and 4K

Thanks for any help

[vine]

GPU Vram settings will not work, CryEngine does not support those commands that i believe you mean.
Either play around with LOD setting or update/rollback to older - gpu drivers.
Apparently (provided KCD is on the ssd) the hard drive should not be the culprit.
One more thing - is the gpu slotted in pciex 16? Not x8? We've seen some curiosities on this forum before, from player not having a dedicated GPU and flipping about constant CTDs, to gpus slotted in wrong pciex.

[ReKoNr]

Originally posted by vine:

GPU Vram settings will not work, CryEngine does not support those commands that i believe you mean.
Either play around with LOD setting or update/rollback to older - gpu drivers.
Apparently (provided KCD is on the ssd) the hard drive should not be the culprit.
One more thing - is the gpu slotted in pciex 16? Not x8? We've seen some curiosities on this forum before, from player not having a dedicated GPU and flipping about constant CTDs, to gpus slotted in wrong pciex.

Thank you for the swift response!

Now that you mention it, I am running the latest driver but it's not the recommended one, so I will do a DDU and install the recommended. Never thought about trying that so thank you. Although no other games in my libraries seem affected - resident evil 2 & 3, witcher 3, tomb raider etc.

gpu definitely in the x16 slot, I always make sure of this whenever I install a new GPU (my motherboard even highlights the bay in a different colour to the other 2 so newbs don't choose the wrong one :) )

Will roll back the driver and reply here with results.

Cheers

[ReKoNr]

Ok so after doing a DDU and installing a more stable radeon driver, this didn't change anything. I've tried fiddling with all the graphics and advanced graphics settings in game, changing the field of view, enabling and disabling HD texture pack in the options but nothing.

However, I started a brand new game and noticed that NPC textures are as they should be, along with other textures but walls, floor are still missing textures and smoke/clouds still blocky.

Also tried verifying integrity of installed files on steam which came back fine.

Not sure what to do next other than uninstall and reinstall, but my internet is painfully slow and would mean I'd have to leave the download running for around 24 hours which isn't ideal.

[ReKoNr]

Ok, so I decided to run another integrity check and 2 files were apparently bad, in total about 1.5gb which was redownloaded and the problem seems to be fixed. Not sure why no errors weren't displaying the first time around.

So, no more blocky smoke and textures are loading perfectly now. Thanks for your suggestions

[vine]

Originally posted by ReKoNr:

Ok, so I decided to run another integrity check and 2 files were apparently bad, in total about 1.5gb which was redownloaded and the problem seems to be fixed. Not sure why no errors weren't displaying the first time around.

So, no more blocky smoke and textures are loading perfectly now. Thanks for your suggestions

Perfect, i'm so happy that you can play at the highest quality, please do enjoy the game :)