DirectX 11 Graphics Issues

[Euste Ylhes.1095]

Crashes occcuring when taking part to large crowds events (even if I have all characters settings on low). Didn't happen before with Dx9. I had crashes at Piñata, Triple Trouble and in the Silverwastes, but these are all that I tried so other large scales events might also be included. 

 

Running Windows 10 (64-bits), with a Ti-1050, intel core i5 8400 (16Gb ram)

[Agrios.1957]

My glider (https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Feathers_of_the_Zephyr)  stopped showing since this update..

 

Also..I'm getting constant crashes, specially in more intense areas, like wvw, Drizzlewood and Thunderhead Keep.

I've submitted reports ingame but I thought it would be a good idea to post in this forum.

 

To whom it may concern my machine is composed of:

 

        Operating System
            Windows 10 Pro 64-bit
        CPU
            Intel Core i5 6600 @ 3.30GHz    45 °C
            Skylake 14nm Technology
        RAM
            16,0GB Dual-Channel Unknown @ 1064MHz (14-14-14-32)
        Motherboard
            ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC. H110M-C/BR (LGA1151)    51 °C
        Graphics
            Philips 236V4 (1920x1080@60Hz)
            3071MB NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3GB (Gigabyte)    40 °C
        Storage
            111GB SanDisk SDSSDA120G (SATA (SSD))    31 °C
            931GB Western Digital WDC WD10EZEX-00WN4A0 (SATA )    36 °C
        Optical Drives
            HL-DT-ST DVDRAM GH22NS50
        Audio
            Realtek High Definition Audio
Operating System
    Windows 10 Pro 64-bit

[das Keks.5403]

Haven't looked into all screenshots here but only issue I've had so far are some colorful rocks:

https://imgur.com/a/JeNQE4z

[malevolence.9487]

Got a weird issue here with DirectX11 on my high end PC (RTX 3090 + i9 10900k). In DirectX11 the GPU Utilization is around 30%~40% but with DirectX9 the GPU utilization is around 70%~80%, obviously the performance in DirectX11 is worse than DirectX9.  

[firewire.4813]

4 hours ago, malevolence.9487 said:

Got a weird issue here with DirectX11 on my high end PC (RTX 3090 + i9 10900k). In DirectX11 the GPU Utilization is around 30%~40% but with DirectX9 the GPU utilization is around 70%~80%, obviously the performance in DirectX11 is worse than DirectX9.  

Out of curiosity, do you run in Fullscreen mode? I'm wondering if this has anything to do with the fact that DX11 only has windowed modes.

[Taniniver BlindDragon.9503]

5 hours ago, malevolence.9487 said:

Got a weird issue here with DirectX11 on my high end PC (RTX 3090 + i9 10900k). In DirectX11 the GPU Utilization is around 30%~40% but with DirectX9 the GPU utilization is around 70%~80%, obviously the performance in DirectX11 is worse than DirectX9.  

Not necessarily. Does that increased GPU utilization also come with a higher frame rate?

[TristisOris.2165]

cutscene

https://ibb.co/1sY52Pp

https://ibb.co/YLW9JPq

 

and DF after.

https://ibb.co/GJ5LqRP

Edited September 28, 2021 by TristisOris.2165

[eyelogix.1654]

35 minutes ago, TristisOris.2165 said:

cutscene

https://ibb.co/1sY52Pp

https://ibb.co/YLW9JPq

 

and DF after.

https://ibb.co/GJ5LqRP

 

Had that issue as well, and Lions Arch became weird after the i left the epilogue. 

[Incurve Giidis.7829]

btw did everyone's encounter fps get nuked down to 30 range? like 5man fractals and 10man raids, where its not even that demanding

like my addons broke so i first removed everything

default was really bad

default with dx11 beta was also really bad

 

and then opting out of that and reinstalling the dx12 mod its still bad. is dx12 the cause or this update?

Edited September 28, 2021 by Incurve Giidis.7829

[Ornitha.5862]

i haven't really experienced anything weird with dx11 until i played the "descent" instance of war eternal

 

some screenshots i took of the final cutscene + aftermath:

https://imgur.com/a/6UZ7zTd - kralk's death seemed to have some unexpected consequences for rytlock

https://imgur.com/a/DYBXq1u - chat bubbles would not appear over character's heads or in the chatbox

https://imgur.com/a/39i0JFf - everything would disappear when i moved my camera at certain angles, experience bar would also randomly appear + disappear as i ran around

 

screenshot of after returning to lion's arch:

https://imgur.com/a/ACYiaY5 - everything except for terrain disappeared. i could move normally and collision/physics/whatever still worked properly even though i couldn't see anything. my ui would not work at all

[Kabi.4320]

i5 9600k  16 GB Ram 

1660 ti  DX11

https://imgur.com/9Y8Z5AP

What  hapend ? 🙂

Edited September 28, 2021 by Kabi.4320

[malevolence.9487]

7 hours ago, Taniniver BlindDragon.9503 said:

Not necessarily. Does that increased GPU utilization also come with a higher frame rate?

 

Yes, in DX9 when there is more gpu utilization my fps is higher. DX11 gpu utilization is not right for my setup.

 

7 hours ago, firewire.4813 said:

Out of curiosity, do you run in Fullscreen mode? I'm wondering if this has anything to do with the fact that DX11 only has windowed modes.

Yes in Fullscreen mode. What do you mean with 'DX11 only has windows modes' ?

[Decinomicon.4619]

I have some visual bugs from the end of LWS4 EP6 Descent. First two are from the cutscene after kralk fight. The other is on the airship. Yes my graphics card drivers are updated, updated them today in fact.

Link: https://imgur.com/a/O4xfD9o

[Ronin.4501]

Not really sure how or why this would relate to the DX11 beta, but I was decorating in my guildhall and swapped over to the DX11 as I finished up on a project I'd been working on.  I decided to swap out one item for a similar item and was informed I had exceeded the decoration cap.  I removed probably a dozen decorations before I was back under the cap.  Frustrated beyond words (as this particular project had taken several hours to create), I decided to turn the DX11 back off.  Suddenly I was able to restore what I had built and even add another piece or two.

 

So it would seem that the DX11 affects decoration cap limits as well.

[firewire.4813]

4 hours ago, malevolence.9487 said:

Yes in Fullscreen mode. What do you mean with 'DX11 only has windows modes' ?

The DX11 beta only has windowed mode options available (that includes borderless). True fullscreen usually has better performance (if you only have 1 monitor), because it gives the game full control of the framebuffer.

[Dawdler.8521]

I noticed yesterday in WvW that spark mobs at shrines where basicly rocks with spark legs, lol.

I also noticed that bamboo fence on DBL was purple... but ONLY at lod0. All other lod looked fine. Verfied it by changing the lod setting. Jumping to another map and back again made it dissapear.

Pretty random that probably have the same origin. Wonder when we get the next DX11 update.

[Bingus.4236]

19 hours ago, TristisOris.2165 said:

cutscene

https://ibb.co/1sY52Pp

https://ibb.co/YLW9JPq

 

and DF after.

https://ibb.co/GJ5LqRP

 

I also had this happen during that cut scene and had to restart the game because everything was a mess afterwards.

[Ashantara.8731]

I would love to reactivate the DX11 beta - but only after these severe glitches have been taken care of.

Any estimate, dear devs? 🙂

Edited September 29, 2021 by Ashantara.8731

[malevolence.9487]

18 hours ago, firewire.4813 said:

The DX11 beta only has windowed mode options available (that includes borderless). True fullscreen usually has better performance (if you only have 1 monitor), because it gives the game full control of the framebuffer.

That is strange because I can put fullscreen with dx11 enabled. I have only 1 screen so usually I play fullscreen and for the performance too 🙂

[MadLysol.7901]

4 hours ago, Ashantara.8731 said:

I would love to reactivate the DX11 beta - but only after these severe glitches have been taken care of.

Any estimate, dear devs? 🙂

I agree DX11 is defiantly a step in the right direction performance wise. A little Dev feedback would be useful. What information do you need from us to help troubleshoot and fix these graphical glitches?

[Dawdler.8521]

37 minutes ago, malevolence.9487 said:

That is strange because I can put fullscreen with dx11 enabled. I have only 1 screen so usually I play fullscreen and for the performance too 🙂

Have you tried pressing the windows key? Yeah. Its not fullscreen no matter how much you set your resolution to fullscreen. Its windowed fullscreen.

[Faelash.2436]

I've noticed that changing Gamma on fullscreen doesn't do anything with DX11 on. Works fine with DX9.

[Kaliwenda.3428]

On 9/28/2021 at 3:53 PM, Ornitha.5862 said:

i haven't really experienced anything weird with dx11 until i played the "descent" instance of war eternal

 

some screenshots i took of the final cutscene + aftermath:

https://imgur.com/a/6UZ7zTd - kralk's death seemed to have some unexpected consequences for rytlock

https://imgur.com/a/DYBXq1u - chat bubbles would not appear over character's heads or in the chatbox

https://imgur.com/a/39i0JFf - everything would disappear when i moved my camera at certain angles, experience bar would also randomly appear + disappear as i ran around

 

screenshot of after returning to lion's arch:

https://imgur.com/a/ACYiaY5 - everything except for terrain disappeared. i could move normally and collision/physics/whatever still worked properly even though i couldn't see anything. my ui would not work at all

The same thing happened to me in the Descent cutscene & epilog.  The characters all appeared against a completely black background, half of Rytlock's body was gone, chat was really wonky, and panning the camera got the same glowy mess, plus lots of the ship deck glitched in and out of view.

When I got to Lion's Arch, most of the UI didn't appear, most of my skills were missing, couldn't pull up any options, the "end of chapter" award box showed only one of the  crossed swords and a few dragonite ore, with no way to click to accept it.  I forced the game to exit and came back in and it was back to normal, was able to claim the final loot.

I was looking forward to seeing Aurene's transformation again, so that was a disappointment.

Edited September 30, 2021 by Kaliwenda.3428

[firewire.4813]

4 hours ago, malevolence.9487 said:

That is strange because I can put fullscreen with dx11 enabled. I have only 1 screen so usually I play fullscreen and for the performance too 🙂

That's not true fullscreen if you can see your taskbar at the bottom when you press the Windows key with the game in the background. That's "fake" fullscreen (aka, borderless window).

[Manamari Tsunami.2049]

Daily T4 fractals had Aetherblade today. Apparently having DX11 on can cause all graphics and the UI to suddenly converge into the mists and disappear. Happened around the 50% Mai Trin boss phase. 

https://imgur.com/a/zQAT564

Had to restart a few times after this happened. Dx11 does NOT like multiple AoEs spawning on the screen. It weirdly turned the npcs invisible first.  I tried typing  out of shock and then the chat disappeared, and the floors became see-through. It then kept swapping a few things to be slightly visible, and then gone again. Wild experience. 

Edited September 30, 2021 by Manamari Tsunami.2049
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