Issues with Granblue Fantasy Relink rendering
Issues with Granblue Fantasy Relink rendering
Hello, the game appears this way on my laptop and seems to be the only one affected. It also frequently crashes during cutscenes, though I can navigate through them using Vulkan with dxvk. The textures generally fail to render, even though the gameplay itself runs smoothly. The hardware is in good condition—played games recently while traveling, and I just played a long session of Baldur's Gate 3 to confirm. I think this problem might be linked to how the game handles rendering on older GPUs like this one. It’s worth noting that I’m not alone in facing similar issues, and the game had a rough launch overall, with many crashing and rendering problems reported (including flashbang effects).
I only use this laptop when traveling, so I’m not overly concerned, but I remain interested in understanding the cause better. Anyone here has insights on how to track this issue more effectively? It seems challenging because the engine is custom-built, though it might offer some clues.
Here are the relevant details: Intel i76700hq and a GTX 960m. I’ve ruled out disk or file problems by trying multiple installations on different drives.
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Welcome to the forums, newcomer! Important details include intel i76700hq and a gtx 960m. You may wish to omit your laptop's brand, model, and SKU. Verify if there are any pending BIOS updates. Then check for OS update needs. Afterward, use DDU to eliminate all GPU drivers (Intel, AMD, Nvidia) from your machine, then reinstall manually using the newest driver from Nvidia's support site via an elevated command—right-click installer > Run as Administrator. I've already addressed disk/file issues by trying multiple installs on different drives. Where did you obtain the OS installer?
Hello and thank you for the welcome
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, everything is up to date and I've already tried removing the drivers and reinstalling them just in case. Everything seems to be working fine so it's pretty much this game only, no irregularities at all on anything else. To be honest It might just be a waiting for a patch kinda situation but I'm still curious lol. I forgot to mention but the issue seems to be affecting people with radically different gpus so it might be something else completely, pretty hard to pinpoint.
When talking about installations I meant the game since I've seen faulty installations producing bad rendering before but on this case it doesn't seem to be related to either the files or the drive speed.
I'll post the full system specs from the steam help page here:
Computer Information:
Manufacturer: LENOVO
Model: 80Q0
Form Factor: Laptop
No Touch Input Detected
Processor Information:
CPU Vendor: GenuineIntel
CPU Brand: Intel® Core™ i7-6700HQ CPU @ 2.60GHz
CPU Family: 0x6
CPU Model: 0x5e
CPU Stepping: 0x3
CPU Type: 0x0
Speed: 2592 MHz
8 logical processors
4 physical processors
Hyper-threading: Supported
FCMOV: Supported
SSE2: Supported
SSE3: Supported
SSSE3: Supported
SSE4a: Unsupported
SSE41: Supported
SSE42: Supported
AES: Supported
AVX: Supported
AVX2: Supported
AVX512F: Unsupported
AVX512PF: Unsupported
AVX512ER: Unsupported
AVX512CD: Unsupported
AVX512VNNI: Unsupported
SHA: Unsupported
CMPXCHG16B: Supported
LAHF/SAHF: Supported
PrefetchW: Unsupported
Operating System Version:
Windows 10 (64 bit)
NTFS: Supported
Crypto Provider Codes: Supported 311 0x0 0x0 0x0
Video Card:
Driver: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M
DirectX Driver Name: nvldumd.dll
Driver Version: 31.0.15.5123
DirectX Driver Version: 31.0.15.5123
Driver Date: 1 18 2024
OpenGL Version: 4.6
Desktop Color Depth: 32 bits per pixel
Monitor Refresh Rate: 60 Hz
DirectX Card: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M
VendorID: 0x10de
DeviceID: 0x139b
Revision: 0xa2
Number of Monitors: 1
Number of Logical Video Cards: 1
No SLI or Crossfire Detected
Primary Display Resolution: 1920 x 1080
Desktop Resolution: 1920 x 1080
Primary Display Size: 15.04" x 8.46" (17.24" diag), 38.2cm x 21.5cm (43.8cm diag)
Primary Bus: PCI Express 16x
Primary VRAM: 4095 MB
Supported MSAA Modes: 2x 4x 8x
Sound card:
Audio device: Altavoces (Realtek High Definit
Memory:
RAM: 16211 Mb
VR Hardware:
VR Headset: None detected
Miscellaneous:
UI Language: English
Media Type: Undetermined
Total Hard Disk Space Available: 1207062 MB
Largest Free Hard Disk Block: 464232 MB
OS Install Date: Sep 02 2022
Game Controller: None detected
MAC Address hash: 81f96a29d56c32be66b2535c23adae6d209d214c
Storage:
Disk serial number hash: 714e52e8
Number of SSDs: 1
SSD sizes: 250G
Number of HDDs: 1
HDD sizes: 1000G
Number of removable drives: 0