Borderlands 2 - FIX for black screen in "Second Wind"

[Andrew Rybenkov]

1) Turn ON "Depth of Field"

AND

2)
in WillowEngine.ini
(most probable path - Documents\My Games\Borderlands 2\WillowGame\Config\WillowEngine.ini)
replace string
RenderingOverrides=(bAllowAmbientOcclusion=True,bAllowDominantWholeSceneDynamicShadows=True,bAllowMotionBlurSkinning=True)
with
RenderingOverrides=(bAllowAmbientOcclusion=True,bAllowDominantWholeSceneDynamicShadows=False,bAllowMotionBlurSkinning=False)

ENJOY!

--
Andrew Rybenkov

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Furthermore I think Bioware must be destroyed.

[Xocyll]

"Andrew Rybenkov" <aryb...@gmail.com> looked up from reading the
entrails of the porn spammer to utter "The Augury is good, the signs
say:

>1) Turn ON "Depth of Field"
>
>AND
>
>2)
>in WillowEngine.ini
>(most probable path - Documents\My Games\Borderlands 2\WillowGame\Config\WillowEngine.ini)
>replace string
>RenderingOverrides=(bAllowAmbientOcclusion=True,bAllowDominantWholeSceneDynamicShadows=True,bAllowMotionBlurSkinning=True)
>with
>RenderingOverrides=(bAllowAmbientOcclusion=True,bAllowDominantWholeSceneDynamicShadows=False,bAllowMotionBlurSkinning=False)
>
>ENJOY!

I was wondering what on earth you meant by a black screen in second
wind, but a bit of googling shows this is one of those problems that hit
ATi users.

I wonder if there will ever be a game that runs flawlessly on ATi cards
without new drivers or fixes like the above?

Xocyll
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[Andrew Rybenkov]

On Tue, 16 Oct 2012 21:58:49 +0400, Xocyll <Xoc...@kingston.net> wrote:

> I was wondering what on earth you meant by a black screen in second
> wind, but a bit of googling shows this is one of those problems that hit
> ATi users.
>I wonder if there will ever be a game that runs flawlessly on ATi cards
> without new drivers or fixes like the above?
>

They used special PhysX effects for "Fight for you life/Second wind" sequences in B2.
And guess who writes PhysX drivers.

--
Andrew Rybenkov

There are trash, there are junk, and there are Bioware

[Xocyll]

"Andrew Rybenkov" <aryb...@gmail.com> looked up from reading the
entrails of the porn spammer to utter "The Augury is good, the signs
say:

>On Tue, 16 Oct 2012 21:58:49 +0400, Xocyll <Xoc...@kingston.net> wrote:
>
>> I was wondering what on earth you meant by a black screen in second
>> wind, but a bit of googling shows this is one of those problems that hit
>> ATi users.
>>I wonder if there will ever be a game that runs flawlessly on ATi cards
>> without new drivers or fixes like the above?
>>
>
>They used special PhysX effects for "Fight for you life/Second wind" sequences in B2.
>And guess who writes PhysX drivers.

Oh I know nVidia does, now, but ATi had issues with PhysX back when
those drivers were third party - I remember friends with ATi cards
having all kinds of issues in City of Heroes which used PhysX before
nVidia bought it. PhysX wasn't the only issue ATi cards had in that
game before ATi sorted out their drivers.

Face it, ATi posts high FPS rates in various tests, and sell
"equivalent" power for less, but you really do get what you pay for, a
card from a company known to have issues with games due to their driver
writing style - optimized for FPS only and to hell with compatibility.

I'd rather have a "slower" and/or more expensive card that just plain
works every time without issue so there's no price point at which an ATi
card will ever be a "value" to me.
Having to edit config files just to get basic performance or having to
wait until ATi releases a new driver in order to play a newly released
game _at_ _all_ (RAGE) is a HUGE entry in the negative column and they'd
have to be _hundreds_ of dollars cheaper to make that balance out.

Your mileage obviously varies.