Question Granblue Fantasy Relink rendering issues

[xKoc0]

Hello, the game looks like this on my laptop and it's the only game that has this issue. It also consistently crashes on cutscenes and if I run the game on vulkan using dxvk I can get through the cutscenes but the textures straight up do not render for the most part. Hardware is in a good state(played games last weak while traveling and I just had a long session of baldurs gate 3 just to make sure) and I suspect this issue is related to how the game does the rendering on old architecture gpus like this one. It's to be noted that I'm not the only user with this kind of problems and the game had a pretty rocky launch overall in terms of the port performance (I've seen multiple crashing issues reported as well as rendering issues like this one or ones that cause flashbang effects for example)

I only use this laptop when I'm traveling so I'm not too worried but I'm still curious about the root of this issue. Anyone here knows how this issue could be better tracked? Seems kinda hard since they used a custom engine but maybe somedy has some ideas.

Relevant specs are intel i76700hq and a gtx 960m, I've already discarted disk/file problems since I tried multiple installations on different drives

https://imgur.com/7zkUJlc

https://imgur.com/ZEE76sE

 

[Lutfij]

Welcome to the forums, newcomer!

Relevant specs are intel i76700hq and a gtx 960m
You might want to pass on the make and model of your laptop and it's SKU.

Check to see if your laptop is pending any BIOS updates. Following that, see if your OS is pending an update. Once done, use DDU to remove all GPU drivers(Intel, AMD and Nvidia) from your laptop, then manually reinstall with the latest GPU driver sourced from Nvidia's support site in an elevated command, i.e, Right click installer>Run as Administrator.

I've already discarted disk/file problems since I tried multiple installations on different drives
Where did you source the installer for the OS?

 

[xKoc0]

Hello and thank you for the welcome 😊, 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(R) Core(TM) 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