System wide broken specific AA or texture rendering in relation to camera angles.

[trigen]

Hello

Windows 10 multiple versions. 

First computer. 

i7700k 1080 TI all drivers

Second computer. Completely new system. 
msi tomahawk x570, 5900X, 3090 All drivers.  Worked fine for 5-6 months.  Then boom. 

Tested in 2d and multiple VR HMD

 

Ive decided to make a new post here in the hope that some light can be shed on this issue. This however is nothing the end user can fix nor DCS but there needs to be pressure to have this issue fixed.  I no longer think this is an issues with anti aliasing but rather something underlying. This is also reinforced by the fact that i can do 6000 super sampling (and that is fixed so steamVR does not reduce it or limit) and it wont really make a difference. You do however notice a difference when setting it very low.  So is it somehow limiting the texture/line size so you cant fix it? 

I do also think this is more common that people realize but may not notice so much in 2d. I remember especially thinking when a guy said to me for spotting in  VR, Jaggies, alive, no jaggies dead. Taking HMD and SS into account of course i thought. Ok well i dont really see any jaggies so i cant use that. Boy is it different now. And no its not something i just suddenly noticed and cant un notice. The difference and boiling picture is rather extreme in the HMD: 

I have made a post in VR issues before back in 2018 and some updates on that but it warrants a new post. 

 

This is something that has happened overnight (the difference is huge) and the only commonality between the cards is that both has been used for bit mining. I do however not see that in other cases around the internet. I've compiled some videos but i can give more examples if needed. 

From another person. There are multiple around if you search for broken AA but this is the best illustration of the same issue.  Its like something just stopped working on the transitions and give jagged reflective lines which any amount of SS or AA just wont do anything about.
 

 

 

Doing a tilt test here. When tilted  its what everything used to look like pre issues. If i tilt the camera about 45 degree you have a little bit of shimmer. Level and its a shimmer mess. It just feels like the picture is boiling inside the HMD. 

4x AA 3900 super sampling. Tons of issues which again tilting the HMD does help. 
 

Here's a 2d video with 4x AA and while YT compression does reduce it a tiny bit you can see there is lots of shimmer especially in the shoreline and ridges in the distance. 

Video of the screen 0x AA  Absolutely atrocious.
 

Video 4x AA. Its better but not by much
 

 

 

 

 

Works on some but marginal difference on the white line marked by pointer. 

 

Growing and shrinking white line top right. 
 

Mouse pointer flicker. 
 

AC

8x AA 3500 SS. Hud and lines flicker like crazy. Same with the white writings/spray textures on track on the Nordschleife. Same deal as runway textures etc in DCS.
 

 

Edited June 25, 2021 by trigen

[trigen]

Im going to add this a couple of places as im assuming very few actually bother to read this. 

This is quite impossible to miss really. The shadows and im guessing other details as well given all the AA issues and such i have seem to render at really low res outside of 10-20 meters causing extreme flickering. 

3900 SS 4x AA 16x AF All shadows high and default. 
 
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[trigen]

Here's the same issue in 2d 

 

[Mik32]

@trigen

I have same issue with flickering, with my PC configuration: i9 11900K, RTX 3090, RAM 32GB, PCIE 4.0 SSD. Using Oculus Quest 2 VR.

MXAA 4x, AF 16x, DCS graphic settings very similar to yours......

I was looking a lot of forum subjects in order to find the way how to solve this with no success unfortunatelly.

Agree, probably DCS still not optimized enough related to this issue.