Severe graphical artifacts: black polygons and missing world geometry
Description
During gameplay in Marathon, severe graphical issues occur consistently:
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Weapons, environment objects, and world geometry turn into solid black polygons
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Parts of the map disappear or become heavily distorted
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Large stretched planes and broken geometry appear in the world
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The issue often becomes more noticeable while moving or changing camera angles
These issues significantly impact gameplay and make the game difficult or impossible to play.
🔁 Steps to Reproduce
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Launch Marathon
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Load into a match / game area
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Move around the map and play normally
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After some time, black models and broken geometry appear
⚠️ The issue occurs consistently, not randomly.
✅ Expected Result
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All weapons, characters, and environment objects render correctly
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No graphical artifacts or missing geometry
❌ Actual Result
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Black polygons replacing models
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Missing or distorted world geometry
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Severe visual corruption of the environment
🖥️ System Information
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Operating System: Windows 10
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GPU: AMD Radeon RX 480 (8 GB VRAM)
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CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 3600 (6 cores)
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RAM: 16 GB
Comments
Hi there,
Thanks for reaching out.
We’ve received reports of graphical texture issues affecting AMD users, and these have been flagged to the dev team. We apologize for the inconvenience!
ive spoken to some on reddit, and im going to copy/paste this into the similar reports as its not on the known issue list and seems to affect quite a few people
so far, ive seen it happen mainly on RX cards, 570, 580, and 590. I have tried running older versions the most up to date versions of the drivers, specifically 26.1.1 (latest), 24.9.1, and 25.5.1.
the issue mainly affects buildings, runners (hands) and weapons, i am yet to meet an actuall runner in game so cannot confirm if it happens to other runners, but it also affected my npc enemies.
I wish they would fix this soon.
Same issue with me this has happened to me in the past and it was due to a bug with older AMD GPUs.
CPU: AMD 5600
GPU: Radeon RX 580 8gb
This applies to RX Vega cards as well, but not my RX 6950XT. Had to swap my partners GPU to an ARC a380, which was enough for the weekend, was hoping to get just a bit more time out of my venerable Vega 56.
R7 3700X / RX Vega 56
I will get driver versions later
@bungie this is so frustrating! Just bought the deluxe version of the game on launch. I was so excited to play the start mission. Models are black polygons and made the first mission unplayable. I couldn’t see a single thing and dark rooms were just black polygon shapes. Outside, buildings were glitching/stretching unrendered black polygons. I want my refund!!
RojoCuarenta download the old 22.8.1 drivers for your graphics card and see if it fixes the issue. Heard it has worked for some.
RedSuprise is it the 22.8.2 version or the 22.9.1 version because I cannot find 22.8.1 anywhere
same. RX570
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