[REPORTED]Strange Graphical Glitch

[BIGNEWY]

Thank you added to report

[KaptinKaos]

I, too, get the flashes... and it's really bad on a busy map like Operation Jupiter, :( I'm not using an Nvidia card though and get yellow flashes, not black. I will try and get a shorter track off... went a little long tonight and it's too big to upload.

dcs.log

[BIGNEWY]

if you have a shortish track replay when it happens please attach it also, thank you for the log.

[KaptinKaos]

Here ya go, I couldn't get a track short enough that showed the flashing, so here's a gdrive link to one I just took. Seems that the flashes directly correspond to either gun fire, explosions or crashes.

 

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1DU5...ew?usp=sharing

 

 

*Edit - Ew, just watched the replay and it actually looks worse on the replay than it did when I was flying, lol...

 

Radeon Sapphire 5700XT Nitro

dcs.log

[BIGNEWY]

thank you

[BIGNEWY]

Anyone still seeing this issue please let us know what graphics driver you are using and if you have them please still add track replays

 

thank you

[MarvK]

Still seeing it here.

 

Nvidia GTX 1060 6GB

Driver ver 452.06

[BIGNEWY]

Still seeing it here.

 

Nvidia GTX 1060 6GB

Driver ver 452.06

 

thanks, if you have a track replay showing it happen please attach it here.

[lipas70]

Bignewy.

A lot of players have the same thing. In addition, I noticed (and not only me) that, e.g. during a network game, the problem occurs at the same time for everyone. I guess this has nothing to do with NVidia drivers, because Radeon users have it too.

[Flappie]

Seeing I can't see these glitches and I don't own WWII assets, here's my feeble contribution. I've made a short track showing free WWII assets exploding. Can you see these glitches when you play this track? I can't.

 

EDIT: added a new one, "WWII_warbirds_explode.trk". Multiple explosions guaranteed in the first 10 seconds (sill no glitch on my side).

WWII_free_units_explode.trk

WWII_warbirds_explode.trk

Edited November 17, 2020 by Flappie

[BIGNEWY]

thanks I will check it out.

[Ithronwise]

Grahpics Card: Sapphire Radeon 5700XT Nitro+ SE

Graphics Driver: Adrenalin 2020 Edition 20.9.1 (Recommended by AMD)

 

I see this glitch only in correlation with explosions of aircrafts (missile hits, crash into the ground) even if the target aircraft is hitted or crashing BVR. Sometimes it's a yellow flashing, sometimes a gray/black flashing, probably caused by a corrupt rendering of explosions, flames and smoke trails of the hitted/crashing aircraft. I guess it came together with the rendering improvements of fire and smoke.

 

I will try to upload a track if I find one which isn't too large.

[SignorMagnifico]

Also noticing random orange flickering as many have described. Deleted fxo and metashaders, deleted terrain shaders, and ran a repair of DCS. Running 2.5.6.57949 beta patch released today, Windows 10 update 19042 (20H2), and Nvidia driver 457.30. GTX1080. Will attach a track if I can get one.

 

Here is a track and a .mp4 video of the issue: https://www.dropbox.com/s/q2v2ygitg41k98k/FlickeringBug.rar?dl=0

[Ithronwise]

Hi BIGNEWY,

 

all my relevant tracks they could show the issue are corrupt, what means, if I replaying them I am flying like an idiot and crashing into ground (nothing of this happened during the real flight). If ED wants us to send tracks to investigate issues, the tracking system should be fixed urgently.

 

Best regards,

Rene

[BIGNEWY]

Hi BIGNEWY,

 

all my relevant tracks they could show the issue are corrupt, what means, if I replaying them I am flying like an idiot and crashing into ground (nothing of this happened during the real flight). If ED wants us to send tracks to investigate issues, the tracking system should be fixed urgently.

 

Best regards,

Rene

 

I work with track replays everyday most of them work, the ones that dont are either very long multiplayer tracks, or from servers using scripts that do not function in the replay. But lets not get off topic here, keep this for the video corruption investigation

 

thanks

[Flappie]

@Ithronwise Can you try the attached track and see if you get these glitches?

WWII_warbirds_explode.trk

[Ithronwise]

Hi Flappie,

 

I see a black flickering at the beginning of the track (short after some of the planes have crashed into the ground), which only affects the sky (means, the whole sky from the horizon upwards is flickering black for about one or two seconds). I see another flickering (grey in this case) when your plane flies through the smoke columns, but this flickering effects the whole cockpit (or even the whole field of view).

 

Best regards,

Rene

[Flappie]

OK. I got none of this.

It would be interesting to find why some users are affected, and some others aren't.

 

 

Here are my rig and settings. My NVIDIA driver is quite dated. I'm wondering what it would look like with a recent one. I might give it a try.

 

2020-11-19 16:41:16.234 INFO DCS: DCS/2.5.6.57949 (x86_64; Windows NT 10.0.19041)

2020-11-19 16:41:16.234 INFO DCS: DCS revision: 177930

2020-11-19 16:41:16.234 INFO DCS: Renderer revision: 21069

2020-11-19 16:41:16.234 INFO DCS: Terrain revision: 21165

2020-11-19 16:41:16.234 INFO DCS: CPU cores: 8, threads: 16, System RAM: 32715 MB, Pagefile: 32768 MB

...

2020-11-19 16:41:31.602 INFO DCS: options.graphics =

{

['messagesFontScale'] = 1;

['rainDroplets'] = true;

['LensEffects'] = 3;

['heatBlr'] = 2;

['anisotropy'] = 3;

['water'] = 2;

['motionBlur'] = 0;

['outputGamma'] = 2.2;

['treesVisibility'] = 10000;

['aspect'] = 1.6;

['lights'] = 2;

['shadows'] = 4;

['MSAA'] = 1;

['SSAA'] = 0;

['civTraffic'] = 'high';

['clutterMaxDistance'] = 1500;

['cockpitGI'] = 1;

['terrainTextures'] = 'max';

['multiMonitorSetup'] = '1camera';

['shadowTree'] = false;

['chimneySmokeDensity'] = 2;

['fullScreen'] = false;

['DOF'] = 0;

['clouds'] = 1;

['forestDistanceFactor'] = 1;

['flatTerrainShadows'] = 0;

['width'] = 1920;

['visibRange'] = 'Ultra';

['SSLR'] = 1;

['effects'] = 3;

['SSAO'] = 0;

['useDeferredShading'] = 1;

['sync'] = false;

['textures'] = 2;

['scaleGui'] = 1;

['preloadRadius'] = 150000;

['height'] = 1200;

['terrainMapMFD'] =

{

['distance'] =

{

['mapLodDistance3'] = 200000;

['mapLodDistance2'] = 100000;

['mapLodDistance0'] = 25000;

['mapLodDistance1'] = 50000;

};

};

};

2020-11-19 16:41:31.607 INFO GRAPHICSVISTA: renderer: 'dx11backend.dll'

2020-11-19 16:41:31.649 INFO DX11BACKEND: DX11Renderer initialization (w:1920 h:1200 fullscrn:0 vsync:0 adapter:0 monitor:0 shaderErrors:1)

2020-11-19 16:41:31.710 INFO DX11BACKEND: Driver Concurrent Creates - 1

2020-11-19 16:41:31.710 INFO DX11BACKEND: Driver Command Lists - 1

2020-11-19 16:41:31.714 INFO DX11BACKEND: NVIDIA API init OK

2020-11-19 16:41:31.714 INFO DX11BACKEND: NVIDIA Display Driver Version 43200.r430_00

2020-11-19 16:41:31.714 INFO DX11BACKEND: GPU count:1

2020-11-19 16:41:31.759 INFO DX11BACKEND: commonPool: 68-128, cbPool: 4-14, samplerPool: 5-16

2020-11-19 16:41:31.765 INFO DX11BACKEND: DX11ShaderBinaries::loadCache Bazar/shaders/fxo/fxo.zip

2020-11-19 16:41:32.361 ERROR EDCORE: Can't open file 'bazar/shaders/posteffects/slot.fx.' from fs

2020-11-19 16:41:32.361 WARNING DX11BACKEND: Shader posteffects/slot.fx:DIRECTX11=true;USE_DCS_DEFERRED=1; is outdated as file bazar/shaders/posteffects/slot.fx is modified.

2020-11-19 16:41:32.745 INFO DX11BACKEND: DX11ShaderBinaries::loadCache done. Loaded 1126/1127.

2020-11-19 16:41:32.752 INFO DX11BACKEND: DX11ShaderBinaries::loadCache C:UsersFlavSaved GamesDCS.openbetafxo

2020-11-19 16:41:32.766 INFO DX11BACKEND: DX11ShaderBinaries::loadCache done. Loaded 96/96.

2020-11-19 16:41:32.779 INFO VISUALIZER: SceneManager initialization

2020-11-19 16:41:33.256 INFO VISUALIZER: cascade shadows init (preset:'default' quality:4 layers:4 size:4096)

2020-11-19 16:41:33.303 INFO SOUND: Opening audio device "{0.0.0.00000000}.{fbefecc2-5652-48b3-b54d-f50fdc4ea624}"

2020-11-19 16:41:33.303 ERROR SOUND: Failed to open device "{0.0.0.00000000}.{fbefecc2-5652-48b3-b54d-f50fdc4ea624}": 0x80070490 (?)

2020-11-19 16:41:33.303 INFO SOUND: Opening default audio device.

2020-11-19 16:41:33.309 INFO SOUND: Driver reports 2 channels with mask 0x3

2020-11-19 16:41:33.309 INFO SOUND: Using 2 channels at 48000 Hz

2020-11-19 16:41:33.309 INFO SOUND: Channel layout: Headphones/Stereo

2020-11-19 16:41:33.322 INFO SOUND: Opening audio device "{0.0.0.00000000}.{fbefecc2-5652-48b3-b54d-f50fdc4ea624}"

2020-11-19 16:41:33.322 ERROR SOUND: Failed to open device "{0.0.0.00000000}.{fbefecc2-5652-48b3-b54d-f50fdc4ea624}": 0x80070490 (?)

2020-11-19 16:41:33.322 INFO SOUND: Opening default audio device.

2020-11-19 16:41:33.325 INFO SOUND: Driver reports 2 channels with mask 0x3

2020-11-19 16:41:33.325 INFO SOUND: Using 2 channels at 48000 Hz

2020-11-19 16:41:33.325 INFO SOUND: Channel layout: Headphones/Stereo

2020-11-19 16:41:33.346 INFO DCS: gDescription: "NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti" gVendorId: 4318 gDeviceId: 6918 gMemory: 11127 MB

 

By the way, I don't own any WWII module. Maybe it's got to do with this?

[Ithronwise]

By the way, I don't own any WWII module. Maybe it's got to do with this?

 

The only WWII module I own is P-51D (but fly it very rarely). I see the same flickering in modern aircraft modules like F/A-18C, F-15C, F-16C, Su-33, MiG-29, Mirage 2000C and so on. I don't have a NVIDIA graphics card but an AMD card with the latest recommended driver. I saw this flickering already with the old 19.12.1 driver (maybe a little heavier), for the very first time at the beginning of September this year.

[mrprime]

Adding to this - I get it most commonly in WW2, for me this is 100% reproducible in the Spitfire 'Fw 190 A8 Dogfight' instant action mission in The Channel, the first few frames there'll be at least one 'flash'. It gets progressively worse as time goes on, not sure of any rhyme or reason.

 

I've attached a short track.

 

I've uploaded a quick clip of what I see during that track:

 

You can see the first few flashes right at the start of the mission, then again it starts happening at 04:23 - captured and attached a still image.

 

I'm on a 2080 with the latest nvidia drivers at time of writing (457.30)

WW2Flashing.trk

[BIGNEWY]

Thank you mrprime, added to report

[BIGNEWY]

Ithronwise thank you for your post, I think it is different from this issue so have moved it to its own dedicated thread, thank you

 

https://forums.eagle.ru/forum/english/digital-combat-simulator/dcs-world-2-5/bugs-and-problems-ai/video-corruption-and-related-card-issues-ac/7153803-ithronwise-found-a-video-corruption-thread

[Sideburns]

Seems to be evidence here in Hellreign's video at 2:46-2:55 though he admits overclocking (also this is after he has damaged a B17)

[BIGNEWY]

Thanks added to the report

[Art-J]

For what it's worth, I started noticing that glitch only after replacing some late-spring NV drivers with latest ones last week (version 457.30). Nothing in my config is overclocked. Had the yellow flashes yesterday in Bf-109 Caucasus free flight mission - strictly non-combat, with exception of some bursts fired at the ground and water to check the custom tweaks in "better smoke v8" mod by Taz. After exiting the game, purging fxo and metashaders folders, loading the game and flying the same mission again, there were no flashes anymore, but I'll try to post a track If they appear again.