Millips

Hi ! Same issue here : as soon as I hit FLY : boom >>> crash to desktop ! And sure enough, my user name is accented ! The fact is that none of my other 20+ DCS modules mind that. I am convinced that you will easily iron out that glitch in the next update. I suppose you wouldn't want to be the only accent-unfriendly developer in DCS !?? Best wishes for India FoxT Echo 2023. dcs.log-20230103-180736.zip

Nothing to do with your TIR by any chance ??

Well, at long last, problem solved : The kind of flicker I was experiencing, by no means random and causing eventually DCS to crash, was traced to a faulty chip of GDDR6 in my RTX 2070. I do wish a speedy recovery to those still plagued by this problem !

@BoneDust Can your flickering be linked to any specific action/scenery/module or does it appear straight off as soon as you take off ? Do you manage to fly at all in those conditions ? Does the game ever crash ? I suppose a 2080Ti-based rig can stomach any situation in DCS ...although some had to fiddle with their overclock :

Those flickers can have many causes it seems. For some it still may be DCS related. For me, things seem to be getting worse at each crash and since MSI Kombustor detects many artifacts, I'll send my card back to ASUS a second time to check for a stability problem. I still go for a hardware issue ...

Awkward solutions ASUS has run 3DMark to test my RTX2070, and I’ve been using OCCT to test and monitor my CPU/GPU/RAM/VRAM load while flying DCS. For some reason (out of desperation probably), and although it is not meant to be used that way, I chose to run OCCT MemTest while running DCS and – for some reason too - that made the black flicker disappear !!! … at the cost of a big chunk of fps (up to 50%). See video link (each time the game is paused, I turn MemTest first on –no BF- then off- BF are back-). Most obvious from 00:04:00 on. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1wRkkCarS6XvLCHIjFCv01g8NeEoOQG3G/view?usp=sharing&ts=5e18b8dd It seems that saturation of RAM and VRAM (see screenshots attached) keeps black flickers at bay. Or is it just my rig ?? Of course it doesn’t tackle the source of the problem, since DCS ultimately crashes, and I still don’t know what to make of this reaction (ASUS support & OCCT developers don’t either). I tried replacing my Display Port by an HDMI cable : of course it reduces significantly the black flickering since it makes the refresh rate drop from 144 to 60 Hz. But the same result can be achieved through DP and selecting 60 Hz in the nVidia control panel. It amounts to reducing the workload of our hardware just like lowering the in-game settings managed to solve the problem for some of you (Water down to medium etc.). The fact is that my PC can’t handle DCS at previous settings anymore … Clues anyone ?

Whom is still plagued ? Hi all, I’m quite new to DCS (Summer 2019) and, after barely 4 months of smooth flying, I started experiencing those black flickers eventually followed by a freeze up … and still do. I could not link this anomaly to any update, change of settings or any “abnormal” event. ED IT support team advised a GPU Driver re-install, altering registry TDRdelay values then deleting metashaders2 and fxo folders but none of these actions have solved the problem so far. At this point, I realised that the onset of that nasty flicker was usually prompted by a change of mission or my flying away from the start up point : up to this day, I still can fly “flicker-free” for hours within the boundaries of the original area, but as soon as a supplementary load up is required, the black flashes are back. That’s with any plane or any map. There is more: I soon realised that both “IL2 Great Battles” and “Cliffs of Dover” crashed too along the same pattern, that is as soon as I extend from the initial position. Unlike DCS, these sims do not issue any “flicker warning” before crashing. Suspecting a hardware failure (VRAM could logically be indicted), I returned my RTX2070 to ASUS but they sent it back untouched, tested as fully functional. At this point, I discovered this very thread: 2 years old and still kicking!!! I’ve read it all carefully – quite a cliff-hanger! – and it seems to me that, in the end, even if ED (after fixing actual bugs – sea shaders, mirrors, rotor blades ) continuously strives to “smooth out” the way their program put its strains on our hardware, the black filtering issue probably lies upstream in our own computers’ settings ( or troubleshooting ? in my case, all three sims crash !). And since there are NO TWO RIGS ALIKE, no wonder if the ways it affects simmers and the fixes they come up with are so different! Putting aside the lucky ones relieved of the problem by a DCS update, what kind of feed-back have we got so far from the happy few (?) who got rid of this black plague? - Fiddling with overclock values - Turning off the full screen option /or SSAA - Changing res of cockpit What else? Are there still many people around here who are still “black framed” ? @NineLive : Maybe could you issue some sort of “Call for Witnesses” that would bring the ones who solved this anomaly to share their tips with those who did not ? Thanks in advance. DxDiag 16jan2020.txt