Flickering Clouds

I’ve tried all the tricks nothing works, sadly it’s unplayable for me and with my pre purchase of the f18 its double the disappointment . In addition any dawn or dusk missions result in blurry images lol. There’s no escape!

Rig

I7 @ 4.5ghz

2x1070

64gig ram x 3200 MHz

asus x299 mobo

Evo960 m2

Do any settings changes made in the Nvidea control center help?

I ask this because I did and dont have this problem.

Do any settings changes made in the Nvidea control center help?

I ask this because I did and dont have this problem.

AFAIK, yes - any change that DISABLES SLI performance will "fix" the flickering clouds (at the cost of the extra GPU power and a whole lot of fps); however, if you have settings that work please share them.

I doubt we get a fix for this before they implement a new cloud system.

Any chance of getting a fix for this b4 I have an epileptic seizure :)

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Not certain its related to your issue guys, but in VR there is a nasty cloud bug, that might well cause a flicker in 2D. The problem is that whenever I move my head clouds are appearing and then dissapeering again. Clouds are also causing fps drops for me which means I've turned them off until the problem is fixed.

Dear ED team

Thank you for a great sim and all the work going into the new models. You guys are doing an awesome job. Some of the basics need attention however and this bug is a real problem, especially for those enthusiasts who invested in high end hardware. Could you please at least acknowledge that the issue is reported and receiving attention?

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The problem has now been brought over to 2.5. This is a real problem and those affected can't play the game. Its either being overlooked or just ignored.

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I too get flickering and pop up clouds, no vr just 2d. 1080 ti 8700k, all high end. If I put clouds into a mission I get random hicups every two minutes or so. Dynamic weather seems fine, hard to create heavy cloudy weather though. Maybe thats why dynamic weather runs better.

And for the life of me I can't eliminate those slight stuttering that occurs when you look out your window in an certain angle. Low level, about 45 degrees its microstuttering. Grrrrr :-(

I too get flickering and pop up clouds, no vr just 2d. 1080 ti 8700k, all high end. If I put clouds into a mission I get random hicups every two minutes or so. Dynamic weather seems fine, hard to create heavy cloudy weather though. Maybe thats why dynamic weather runs better.

 

And for the life of me I can't eliminate those slight stuttering that occurs when you look out your window in an certain angle. Low level, about 45 degrees its microstuttering. Grrrrr :-(

Personally, I convert many missions with dynamic wheather, saving again. With dynamic wheather, clouds doesn´t disappears and doesn´t cause many stutters as regular wheather cloud system (stutter everytime that you move along the scenary, apart of cloud disappears issue).

Check this for a partial solution

https://forums.eagle.ru/showpost.php?p=3597425&postcount=15

Not only the clouds, the whole landscape flickers with sunlight on or off, if I move my head in VR. Especially in sunset/sunrise conditions.

Maybe it has something to do with the clouds, cause they cast shadows.

This is really no fun to fly in these actually beauty sceneries. If the main sun light and complete clouds are flickering...

And pls add the ambient lighting to the clouds. Cause they are getting completly black, if the clouds are behind a mountain...

looks like the latest OB updates fixed all cloud flickering in SLI. Can anyone else confirm?

Flickering for me is gone since the update from last Friday!

what SLI settings are you using?

I use a special DCS Profile created with NV Inspector (I deleted the default NVidia Profile for DCS). The new profile is a simple setting change - SLI Compatibility Bit for DX10 set for 'World of Tanks'. Leave the rest of the SLI settings at default. You can verify whether it works by switching on the SLI indicator or by monitoring that BOTH GPUs are at near 100% utilization with a better framerate. I am not at my computer right now, but see if you come right with that. Otherwise I will try to upload my NV Inspector Profile in some way.

yea if you could upload your NVinspector settings that would be great :)

yea if you could upload your NVinspector settings that would be great :)

here you are. SLI-Specific changes from default blank profile linked to dcs.exe are in red.

thanks, don't know how you got those compatibility bits though, i have to choose an option it seems. as in i can choose the DX bits, but not the compatibility bits.

Edit: after trying numerous profiles, i still seem to be getting much lower performance with sli on than off. but the flickering issue does seem to be resolved on all profiles but the dirt 3 rally one

looks like the latest OB updates fixed all cloud flickering in SLI. Can anyone else confirm?

Yes! It seems that the cloud flickering with SLI is fixed in 2.5.3.21235

Thanks ED

thanks, don't know how you got those compatibility bits though, i have to choose an option it seems. as in i can choose the DX bits, but not the compatibility bits.

 

 

Edit: after trying numerous profiles, i still seem to be getting much lower performance with sli on than off. but the flickering issue does seem to be resolved on all profiles but the dirt 3 rally one

On this exact profile as i posted i get for example 30 FPS without SLI and same scene with SLI at around 47 FPS. I run a massive resolution with three main screens and additional monitors for exported viewports, so i really need the SLI performance boost.... maybe check your in-game settings.....?

PS: don"t forget to delete the original dcs.exe NVIDIA profile and associate a new freshly created profile as posted with dcs.exe.

nope, new profile, exactly the same settings as you, 87fps, single gpu 100 (maxed)