Shader issue?

[Furiz]

I have, I think, some shader problems, I have tried deleting fxo and metashader2 folders with no success.

Time 01:00, 1st, October. Nothing on cloud preset.

Sea and black sky look very strange at night

 

 

any suggestions?

 

Edit: no mods, all drivers up to date. Full repair also didn't help.

Edited December 26, 2021 by Furiz

[Flappie]

I don't see what's wrong in these screenshots. Can you please attach a track so we can compare?

If you have an NVIDIA GPU, you might want to purge this folder: 'C:\ProgramData\NVIDIA Corporation\NV_Cache'.

This folder is used by games and other apps, such as web browsers. Windows will not accept the removal of some files: just hit 'Ignore'.

[Furiz]

2 hours ago, Flappie said:

I don't see what's wrong in these screenshots. Can you please attach a track so we can compare?

 

You see these curves in the sea and stains on the black sky?

 

Will try clearing that folder later, thnx.

[Flappie]

Now that you mention it, I see what you're talking about.

No idea if that's a shader issue or not.

[Furiz]

@Flappie Cant find that folder

[Flappie]

I guess it means you're not using NVIDIA Shader Cache. Are you?

[Furiz]

Seems so, its set on Driver Default, should I set it on some value?

Don't think it will fix the issue I have tho:/

Edited December 27, 2021 by Furiz

[Flappie]

Like you, I have it on Driver Default. Still, I have this folder, and it's filled with files.

Apparently, the path has recently changed. Try this: %localappdata%\NVIDIA\DxCache (I have more recent files in this one).

Edited December 27, 2021 by Flappie

[Furiz]

Yea found it, should I delete everything inside?

 

[Flappie]

Yes, you can. You will only find '.bin' and '.toc' files in there.

As I said, Windows will prevent you to delete some of the files: it's OK, simply click "Ignore".

[Furiz]

I tested again and deleting those files had no effect on the game.

 

[Flappie]

OK Then please attach a short track and I'll see if I get the same rendering.

[Furiz]

@Flappie Here you go:

 

 

 

Track:

Shader issuetrk.trk

 

All my drivers and related is up to date.

[Flappie]

Many thanks. I think I'm getting the same rendering.

I agree it's ugly, but I have no idea if this is new or not. I've been seeing this in many games before.

[Furiz]

Yea its ugly,

Thanks for your help, and your time ofc ;D

I guess Im not alone getting this issue if you saw it as well on your machine, hope ED team will take a look.

[Furiz]

View these in full screen to fully see whats going on,

No clouds, clear sky

No mods, everything up to date, I have these grey renders ....

 

ED team aware?

 

[mastah]

It's most likely a 8-10-12bit problem.

[Furiz]

1 hour ago, mastah said:

It's most likely a 8-10-12bit problem.

Can you elaborate? I'm not familiar with that

[mastah]

If you make a gradient, and use different type of coding (8bit, 10bit, 12bit etc.) you'll get more and more banding as the bits goes low.

See an example here : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colour_banding

To sum up, it's probably an engine problem. Wouldn't surprise me, since the engine is old and is starting to be irrelevant on lots of things.

[wilbur81]

The color-banding in the sky at night in DCS has been around for years now... though it has improved a bit in the last year or two. Playing with your NVIDIA gamma and contrast settings, along with in-game gamma can help.

[mastah]

37 minutes ago, wilbur81 said:

The color-banding in the sky at night in DCS has been around for years now... though it has improved a bit in the last year or two. Playing with your NVIDIA gamma and contrast settings, along with in-game gamma can help.

It's most likely a skybox texture, or some texture with not that great alpha ^^

[Furiz]

So anyone from ED can solve this? do I have to do something or it is an issue that will be fixed in a patch? night missions look terrible atm.

 

[Flappie]

In the meantime, you can set a lower Gamma ingame if you like.