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    So frustrated. Black boxes on 7970m

    Hey guys, sorry to make a new thread but I've been trying to solve this for 8+ hours now and can't find anything.

    So Far Cry 3 runs just fine, great, actually. Except I get giant black squares everywhere on my screen at all times. They seem to be tethered to objects. Like, if I look at a house, I can see a dark black square over the whole structure, but this square also pops out if I move around and goes through objects, so even if I'm in the jungle I will still see 3+ giant black squares everywhere I go just from structures way off in the distance. It's basically unplayable.

    I've tried updating catalyst drivers as well as switching to dx9 to no avail. I can't find any settings in-game that change this at all.

    PLEASE someone tell me there is a solution that has been found for this :/
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    Hey, I get this same problem on my HD 7690m xt (Laptop card) and was also wondering why this is happening,
    For an example click below.

    http://i619.photobucket.com/albums/t...ps8e590d02.png
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    Switch to SSAO rather than HBAO....that really helped with the dark shadows/fur around everything! Good luck!
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    Thanks Corrupt! I'm sorry you're experiencing the same issue, it really sucks.

    shaken: I've tried that, unfortunately, and it had no effect for me : (
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    Just giving this a bump in the hopes that someone has figured something out, as I still can't seem to remedy this.
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    I am having the same problem trying to run the game on a laptop I just bought. it does the black box thing no matter what I set the graphic to,. like the OP said, it is so frustrating.
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    I had the same issue on a 7670m with switchable graphics and the Steam version of Far Cry. Strangely the thing that fixed it for me was to verify integrity of game files. 1 file was re-downloaded and it reinstalled UPlay and the black boxes were gone, but only in DX9 mode. If I switched to DX11 the boxes would return, and I'd have to verify again to get rid of them.

    If you don't have the steam version then perhaps a complete reinstall of everything including UPlay might do the same.
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    Originally Posted by CheesyWeasel Go to original post
    I had the same issue on a 7670m with switchable graphics and the Steam version of Far Cry. Strangely the thing that fixed it for me was to verify integrity of game files. 1 file was re-downloaded and it reinstalled UPlay and the black boxes were gone, but only in DX9 mode. If I switched to DX11 the boxes would return, and I'd have to verify again to get rid of them.

    If you don't have the steam version then perhaps a complete reinstall of everything including UPlay might do the same.
    thanks for the tip. i'll have to try this and report back
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    cheesyweasel. you are the man. thank you for the help. doing what you said fixed the black boxes.
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    Is there any solution? I'm using amd 13.10 beta 2
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