Cloud coloration, layering, and shadowing glitch(?)

[Pesanta]

Hello all! I'm making a short film in DCS, and the cloud layering, coloration, and shadows will not stop ruining my shots. (See link)

 

I've tried changing all the settings I can think of, reinstalling, verifying integrity of game files, changing the time of the scene, the location, the aircraft involved, and even changing the scene to an online mission.

 

Any ideas? PC specs are in signature.

 

(If this is the wrong place to post this, I apologize, and will post in the correct place if directed there.)

 

 

Edited July 27, 2019 by Pesanta

[BIGNEWY]

Hi

 

what is your pre-load radius and visibility range set at in options?

 

try increasing them they maybe set to short.

[Pesanta]

Hi

 

what is your pre-load radius and visibility range set at in options?

 

try increasing them they maybe set to short.

Thanks for the reply! My preload radius is set to 124100, and visible range is set to high. I messed around with both of those settings, and it seems to be happening regardless of what values my settings are at.

 

(As a side note, while messing around with the settings DCS froze up a couple of times, which is somewhat normal. However, it also hard crashed my entire PC upon exiting the program one time, which is highly abnormal in my experience.)

[BIGNEWY]

feel free to post your dcs.log here after a crash we can take a look at it to see if there is anything obvious.

[Pesanta]

Hope this works

 

Attached should be the log from the hard crash

 

dcs.log-20190727-180347.zip

[Pesanta]

Attached should be the log from the hard crash

 

[ATTACH]214395[/ATTACH]

Seems like it was due to low virtual memory?

[BIGNEWY]

Thanks

 

I have taken a look at the track, no crash for me unfortunatley.

 

 

Is your pagefile set manually? or does windows manage it?

[Pesanta]

It is windows managed, but I should have more than enough memory. Maybe it's just one of those things, or maybe my computer just wants to die. Like father like son.

[Nealius]

Well it's certainly not your processor or graphics. I also have a 7600, but with an RTX2070, and have never experienced cloud glitching to that extreme. I noticed you have 16GB RAM, which I suspect could be an issue. DCS doesn't like 16GB very much. Is your DCS installed to an SSD?

[KTFBGB]

So I don’t really know anything about this kind of stuff but I had a thought, maybe it’s dumb. The video was super slow motion. Could the slow mo frame rate be higher than what the game was running? So if you were getting 60 FPS in game, if the video was running at 61 or higher for the slow mo wouldn’t you get clouds and other stuff jumping in and out.

 

Also any time there is a graphics issue, I always delete the fxo and meta shaders2 folders. Lots of times this fixes stuff like this.

[Pesanta]

Nealius, DCS is installed to my SSD, and thank you for your reply!

 

KTFBGB, I don't fully understand your suggestion as far as the frame rate goes. The video is slow motion, yes. This is to negate any frame stutter that might show in the final product. I typically speed up my videos so it appears real time, and therefore do not have any frame loss. If you mean that the recording software was set up for 61 frames a second, and my game was at 60, then yes, I suppose that might cause this issue. However, the flickering and layering occurs in game regardless of whether or not the recording software is running. Also, I have tried deleting the folders you've suggested, with no success. However, I appreciate your contribution!

[KTFBGB]

Nealius, DCS is installed to my SSD, and thank you for your reply!

 

KTFBGB, I don't fully understand your suggestion as far as the frame rate goes. The video is slow motion, yes. This is to negate any frame stutter that might show in the final product. I typically speed up my videos so it appears real time, and therefore do not have any frame loss. If you mean that the recording software was set up for 61 frames a second, and my game was at 60, then yes, I suppose that might cause this issue. However, the flickering and layering occurs in game regardless of whether or not the recording software is running. Also, I have tried deleting the folders you've suggested, with no success. However, I appreciate your contribution!

 

Ya the second one is what I was getting at. That’s strange as I don’t experience that layering and things popping in and out. Wish I could be more help but I got nothing.

[Ironhand]

FWIW, I got similar flickering for a bit at first, when I ran the TRK as a mission. After a short time, however, it stopped. No crash nor anything else other than the introductory flickering.