Textures flickering on distant object

[Lt. Staumeier]

Originally Posted by sqk7744

Thanks been tinkering with those and nHancer on a overclocked Asus board.

There are a few SLI posts on nHancer profiles. We should all get pretty close on that eye candy vs. non-slideshow curve.

cheers

Why do I get the feeling you were meaning to type 2x7900 and not 2x9700?

[Stary Wuj]

Any idea how to remove flickering ?
Some graphic card options, in game options or something ?

Very frustrating bug for me......

Best Regards

Stary Wuj

[Stary Wuj]

I see flickering all this time, no need to damage ships :-)
newest drivers for 7800 GTX,

Stary Wuj

[MONOLITH]

I have the flickering too.

Radeon X1950 Pro. Latest driver.

I even get it on the ocean surface..a quick flash like a lightning reflection would look like.

I also get it on the outlines of all the clouds across the sky at once, a white flash, again, like lightning would do.

I get it on the masts of freighters.

I did NOT have this with 1.1.

It looks to me to be similar behavior as when a card is overheating, but too many people are having it....

[Stary Wuj]

Originally Posted by MONOLITH

I did NOT have this with 1.1.....

Strange.

Stary Wuj

[Anvart]

Originally Posted by akdavis

Well, here's something interesting. I found the most obvious mipmapping setting on my card and changed it and then went back to the same scenario I saw the artifacts in above and it seemed gone...until I was messing around later and fired my deck gun at the ship and hit her once. All of sudden the flashing black areas were back along the whole length of the ship. Went to graphics options and slid the "3D damage" slider all the way to the left. The flashing areas went away again.

So, any damage seems to cause this to appear. However, even with the slider all the way to the left, certain areas of ships still exhibit these artifacts until you zoom all the way in (when viewing them in the museum). One of the most obvious areas is elevators on carriers, e.g. Bogue class fore and aft elevator:


The life rafts hanging vertically along the sides of ships are also prime suspects, albeit in a much smaller form.

Yes, you have approached to the reason very close ...
When I did lit ships (SH3), i had the same problem, when crack models did not coincide absolutely precisely with the basic model ...
I think it's not videocard bug ...

[MONOLITH]

Originally Posted by MONOLITH

It looks to me to be similar behavior as when a card is overheating, but too many people are having it....

*next day*

Some may disagree, but I just have to report what I am actually finding...

I'm only getting these flickerings (artifacting?) after my vid card crosses the 77' Celcius threshhold. Not before.

That would indicate overheating.

All my in-game graphics settings are on max, at 1680 x 1050. If I set my anti-aliasing to 4x with adaptive AA, my cards temp will cross beyond 77C. Then I get the flickerings.

If I drop my AA down to 2 x with 'performance mode adaptive AA', there's less strain on the card, and it never crosses 74 to 75C. No flickering then.



Now, the same exact thing I'm seeing may not be what you guys are seeing, there may be two completely different issues here, but I'm just adding to the conversation what I know is happening on my end.

It would be good if you guys could say if you see the flickerings immediately when the game starts, or not until you are 5 to 10 minutes into it. (that would mean heat buildup in the card over time).

Also, do you see any texture flickering while inside the sub views (command room, etc) where the graphics load is low, or do you only see it on the exterior ocean views (where graphics load is high).

Thanks.

[Zepheron]

Ship flicker and water flashes for me at start up. Highest I've seen my card get
to temp wise is 62' c. and that's playing ArmA Combat Operations with settings at very high.

P4 3.2
2gig corsair dual
ATI X1950 pro 512

[Stary Wuj]

From the start too, ships flickering (many parts of the ships), water looks good.
GeForce 7800 GTX, newest DirectX and drivers, almost clean WinXP.

Stary Wuj

[MONOLITH]

After playing awhile longer, I'll add that I am in fact having two seperate issues.

My card does heat up a bit (X1950Pro..known for heating issues), and that causes me the "lightning flashes" on the ocean and clouds...

I also get the black flickering on the distant ships, and that's right from the start up.

I'm thinking driver version issue, but this is on both Nvidia and ATI, yes?

[Stary Wuj]

Yes, and with different drivers......

Stary Wuj

[akdavis]

Originally Posted by MONOLITH

*next day*

Some may disagree, but I just have to report what I am actually finding...

I'm only getting these flickerings (artifacting?) after my vid card crosses the 77' Celcius threshhold. Not before.

That would indicate overheating.

All my in-game graphics settings are on max, at 1680 x 1050. If I set my anti-aliasing to 4x with adaptive AA, my cards temp will cross beyond 77C. Then I get the flickerings.

If I drop my AA down to 2 x with 'performance mode adaptive AA', there's less strain on the card, and it never crosses 74 to 75C. No flickering then.



Now, the same exact thing I'm seeing may not be what you guys are seeing, there may be two completely different issues here, but I'm just adding to the conversation what I know is happening on my end.

It would be good if you guys could say if you see the flickerings immediately when the game starts, or not until you are 5 to 10 minutes into it. (that would mean heat buildup in the card over time).

Also, do you see any texture flickering while inside the sub views (command room, etc) where the graphics load is low, or do you only see it on the exterior ocean views (where graphics load is high).

Thanks.

I was concerned about this as well, even though it didn't seem likely since the flickering was only on very specific parts of ships, and since I could control it in many circumstances by moving the damage graphics slider. Anyways, I totally opened and cleaned out my case, bringing the running temp of the card down over 10 deg. C. No changes whatsoever. The same flickering is still there and it is there from the moment the sim loads.

[Stary Wuj]

Yes, I see the flickerings immediately when the game starts.
And NO flickering in the sub, only distant ships.

Best Regards

Stary Wuj

[Stary Wuj]

Hey NVIDIA users, after long time new (6.xx, 7.xx) drivers are available,
version 94.24, I will test it, but now at work.

Any "flickering" fixes ???

Best Regards

Stary Wuj

[Stary Wuj]

Hmmm, any info about ?
Someone have solution for this ?

Stary Wuj