Water Mark

[klem]

I am seeing 'watermarks' (see attached), almost like reflections although there is no suitable background to reflect. As I raise and lower my head with TrackIR the watermark follows, moving up and down the screen from it's position over the water and disappears when I 'point' it over land (perhaps 'absorbed' by the land textures?)

 

 

I am running four screens, 3 over 1, in 5040x2100 using the new EVGA GTX980 4Gb Superclocked GPU. Top 3 are running in Surround. I have never run this screen configuration before, it used to be 1 over 1 with a GTX570 and I never noticed the problem before.

 

I am running latest 344.48 Nvidia drivers.

 

Is anyone else seeing this? Any ideas?

[Flagrum]

On one or two occassions I saw something similar. I think, it is sand - some land textures that extend beneath the water line. Or supposed are to. But somehow, seems to depend a bit on the angle you look at it, it is refracted and/or detached from the coast/beach. In my case I was flying at the crimean coast and had the sensation of some kind of mirage - a new sand bank suddenly appeared in the ocean but moved further out when I tried to fly towards it. :o)

 

I would consider this a DCS bug - we will have to wait for 2.0 how it looks then. :o)

[klem]

Thanks Flagrum. I don't think it's meant to be sand - if it is it's a pretty poor way of doing it. And it occurs over what would be deeper water too. As you say, probably a bug - let's hope it gets picked up and looked at.

 

I can live with it but it's a bit of a distraction.

Edited November 3, 2014 by klem

[Isegrim]

If you turn up your graphics it will probably look better. I mean i cant even see all Buildings in that City over there.

[klem]

If you turn up your graphics it will probably look better. I mean i cant even see all Buildings in that City over there.

 

I did have graphics on medium due to my high resolution but I switched everything to High (fps still > 30 all the way!) and if anything it made it worse, A larger more extensive effect, about x2 on what I saw before. I tried to take a screenshot but it froze the graphics until I hit PrtScr again and there was nothing on the clipboard. Actually I think I hit Alt+PrtScr so that may have caused it. But the problem remains even on max settings.

[Shahdoh]

Reflections off of glossy objects with the current graphics engine are not true reflections. Its simulated off of another standardized image. So, you will see reflections of clouds where there are none and will not see clouds where you should. This changes with the new edge graphics engine where we will be able to see true reflections of objects.

[klem]

Reflections off of glossy objects with the current graphics engine are not true reflections. Its simulated off of another standardized image. So, you will see reflections of clouds where there are none and will not see clouds where you should. This changes with the new edge graphics engine where we will be able to see true reflections of objects.

 

Bring it on... ermmmm when?