fixed Screen flickering since 2.5.4

[Flappie]

Please attach a track showing this bug. I'll try to replicate the issue.

[DINO]

Same here.

[Amarok_73]

@FlappieCould You and let us know if we can expect any correction of this issue, and in what timeframe?

I have the problem on the non-overclocked hardware.

 

[Flappie]

The better way to get issues fixed quickly in DCS is to get testers like me to replicate these issues. Can you please reproduce the issue, save the track, then attach it here?

Even if I'm unable to replicate, I'll send it to other testers.

[Amarok_73]

Heavy Flickering.zipHere You go, including the log file.

It looks like multiple light sources, when are in line with the sun, causes such flickering.

[Flappie]

Thanks. This is what I get on my end. I see some rare black flashes but I assume they are produced when the camera goes underwater. Are they the flashes you talk about or do you see more on your end?

 

Edited November 1, 2021 by Flappie

[MAXsenna]

Thanks for checking, though it's not the same.
Watch his video again. You can also see that some of the black flashes don't even cover the whole screen. More like there are some black window tiles that suddenly come on top.

Little OT.
Sometimes I will have large trees in front of my cockpit, high up in the air.
They have been with me for the past couple of years though. Probably not the same issue.

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[Flappie]

7 minutes ago, MAXsenna said:

Sometimes I will have large trees in front of my cockpit, high up in the air.
They have been with me for the past couple of years though. Probably not the same issue.

The grass over deck issue is reported (and I've seen it as well) but I had not heard about trees... Please open a new thread about this issue, along with a screenshot, a track, and your dcs.log.

[Amarok_73]

@FlappieYour flashing occurs the same time as in mine, but way less times than on my computer. These are not the moments when camera comes underwater.

Sorry I'm not inclined to show the movie but I have the ADSL 12Mbit/700kbit, so it's quite a lot of waiting for any materials upload on the Youtube.

[Flappie]

If I understand correctly, we get the same episodes, but mine last half a second and yours last several seconds. Is that it?

[Amarok_73]

@Flappie...one hour later...
This is how it looks for me, in 0:42 starts the most intense flickering.

 

[MAXsenna]

Right, I did a rather lengthy test in the F-5 around Tbilisi. But I was testing the TACAN issue in the F-5 as well, to see if I could trigger it too. But I forgot to turn off mods and the microphone, so no point in uploading either track or YT vid.

But on a positive note, I now know exactly where I can trigger the flickering. As mention in a post above, it seems geographical for me.
Start on the end of runway 13, Tbilisi. Flickering starts when I start roll. Fly over the city with flickering. Head to the mountains away from the city. It stops.
Go back to Tbilisi, it comes back. Now, I do several overhead passes over Tbilisi, heading 130ish. Flickering starts exactly at the same spot, about where the tallest trees in the front of the runway are. I went around about three times, different altitudes, last one when landing.
First time I noticed this was in the Mirage, after the clouds update when coming in for landing at Tbilisi.
Gonna test some more, sans any mod and after a full slow repair.
I really appreciate you looking into this @Flappie!
Cheers!


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[Flappie]

Many thanks, I'll give it a go right away.

[Flappie]

@MAXsenna I couldn't replicate the flashes with your method. Here are my tracks. Can you replicate the issue using my tracks?

Tbilisi130_dusk_no_flashes.trk Tbilisi130_dawn_no_flashes.trk

Edited November 1, 2021 by Flappie

[MAXsenna]

@MAXsenna I couldn't replicate the flashes with your method. Here are my tracks. Can you replicate the issue using my tracks?
Tbilisi130_dusk_no_flashes.trk Tbilisi130_dawn_no_flashes.trk

Will try tomorrow.

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[Amarok_73]

@FlappieFor me the easiest way to replicate is to put the carrier early morning, when the sun rises and is low over the horizon, so on the deck are lot of lights enabled, then look through the carrier into the sun. The second way is to look from the plane cockpit with the interior lights enabled into the sun that is low over the horizon.

Edited November 2, 2021 by Amarok_73

[REDEYE_CVW-66]

In a multiplayer session a week ago, we had to members have their screen turn all black mid flights. It seemed like a CTD, but the way it was fixed then was by jumping into F2 view and then back inside.

Never had it before.

[Mike_CK]

I’m not sure how a track file helps you with a video display issue in my hardware. Doesn’t even show up on track files sometimes. There are dozens of video clips of this issue on this thread alone…over a years worth

[Baz000]

I get this exact behavior in the F-14 IA mission "takeoff" in Caucasus... The black screen covers the whole left side of my monitor and sorta splits it in half.

Edited November 4, 2021 by Baz000

[Baz000]

My screen goes half black on the left side

[silverdevil]

this issue was confronted in May of this year.

My video of it

 

[MAXsenna]

this issue was confronted in May of this year.
[/url] My video of it
 

Hmm, that looks kind of similar, but my "boxes" flashes rapidly like a camera shutter.

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[Ithronwise]

I have experienced a similar black flickering which only happens at night probably caused by lights. In daylight I cannot reproduce this bug.

Here is a video:

Here is a second video captured from the same track but in daylight:

 

Here is the trackfile:
Black Flickering Bug at Night Track Marianas.trk

My CPU, RAM and GPU aren't overclocked nor undervolted. My windows drivers are up to date. My graphics driver is the second last WHQL driver recommended by AMD (the newest WHQL driver has only optimizations for some new games, no bug fixing in the release notes).

Best regards Rene

Edited November 6, 2021 by Ithronwise

[Baz000]

Is this issue even reported yet?

[Captcosmos]

I have the same issue. In my case all the screen goes black and it seems like it´s at particular angles when the sun is reflecting directy to the "camera" from the canopies glass.