Screen flickering, no metal spots and no starting locations on AMD RX480 driver 16.7.3

There are two options until AMD fix the opengl drivers, install a older working AMD driver, or try the dll work around.

http://support.amd.com/en-us/kb-art...are-Crimson-Edition-16.7.2-Release-Notes.aspx

Be sure to post something on the AMD forums.
https://community.amd.com/message/2740585
And/or report the bug.
http://www.amdsurveys.com/se.ashx?s=5A1E27D23A3DE979

Thank you so much, this worked for me. Had the newest version of every driver, reinstalled multiple times and just couldn't figure this one out.

Hopefully I can lead somebody in the same position here to this fix by describing my own symptoms. (It took me a lot of googling to get here.)

When I'm in a game of planetary annihilation I get these weird flickering grey lines (artifacts) that could've been stretched polygons all over my screen. They seem to affect only certain planets and gets weirder if I fo
cus on the poles of the affected planets.

In case the above link doesn't work, I've reuploaded the 16.7.2 drivers to my dropbox.
https:// www . dropbox . com/s/ot76nomqpewgfw6/16.7.2.zip?dl=0

Cheers guys! Best of luck fixing this gamebreaking bug.

Updating my AMD drivers to the latest available and then applying the dlls seemed to do the trick for me. Much appreciated.

So.... how does one apply/inject the dll I just downloaded?


AMD Radeon R9 200 Series

Place the 16.7.2 dll files from the 16.7.2.zip in the your Steam\SteamApps\common\Planetary Annihilation Titans\bin_x64 folder.

Usually.
C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Planetary Annihilation Titans\bin_x64

This AMD card will be my last ever the issues i've had compared to all my buddies that have nividia cards is a weekly occurrence So for that reason AMD im out.

Be sure to mention that here: https://community.amd.com/message/2740585

Thanks, the DLL workaround worked for me as well (once I got Win 10 to cooperate).

You only need to put the DLLs in your game folder. Don't need to mess with your drivers at all.

You should really download the DLLs directly from AMD as described here:

• https://wiki.palobby.com/wiki/AMD_Missing_Metal_Spots_/_Landing_Zones_/_Flickering

Workaround does not work for me, cant see either metal deposits or the green circle to start in, all it did fix was some flickering :/

I just saw there is a new driver version: 16.8.3 beta
Did anyone have a chance to test if the bug is fixed in this version?


Btw:

The DLLs are just driver libs. If they are present in the game directory, they have priority over the system wide driver parts. My point is that there is no guarantee that everything is properly replaced. If the system wide driver is still used partially, you can run into really weird bugs caused by using two different driver versions at the same time.

Also, downloading DLLs from an unknown source and putting it in your game directory is a good way to catch all kinds of nasty suprises. Thankfully @mikeyh pointed to the official link, which makes this particular instance of DLL juggling only half as bad.

IT'S FIXED!! (for me anyway)
How's 16.9.1 for everyone else?

Is that confirmed with a clean install of both drivers and PA?

I can confirm the fix.
Just upgraded to 16.9.1 AMD drivers on my RX480, rebooted and had a nice game without graphics glitches.

Ok I'll test and revert...

Edit: Can confirm working with 16.9.1 beta driver

I just ran the standard upgrade myself.

For the record I deleted the files from the workaround and updated the driver as normal. All working fine now.