fixed Black blinking spots in the cockpit of some modules

[Ithronwise]

Hi all,

I am pretty sure there is an older thread describing this issue, but unfortunately I couldn't find it. I notice small squared black blinking spots in the cockpit of different modules (official modules and community modules), e.g. F-14, F-5E, UH-60L. In other modules like F/A-18C, F-16C, AV-8B, A-4E-C I couldn't see this issue yet. 

Here is a short video (F-5E) to demonstrate it (Shoulder Harness lever on the left side of the ejection seat and Emergency Canopy Jettison Lever on the lower right side of the front panel):

Best regards,
Rene

[Mustang]

SSAO enabled in options? If so disable and see if they go away.

[Ithronwise]

51 minutes ago, Mustang said:

SSAO enabled in options? If so disable and see if they go away.

Thank you very much for this hint. You are right, with SSAO = OFF the blinking black spots are gone.

@ED, is there a plan to fix this issue?

Edited February 5, 2022 by Ithronwise

[Flappie]

This issue has been reported internally. I added your video to the report.

I'm unable to reproduce this bug. There must be some hardware/softwae/settings combination that causes this, and we need to find it. Can you please attach your dxdiag log (howto), your options.lua file (Saved Games/DCS/Config) and screenshots of your NVIDIA or AMD graphic settings?

[Ithronwise]

Here they are (sorry, the Radeon settings are in German):

DxDiag.txt

options.lua

 

Radeon - DCS settings

 

Radeon - Global display settings

 

Radeon - Global graphics settings

 

Radeon - Tuning settings

Edited February 5, 2022 by Ithronwise

[Ithronwise]

I have a new graphics card now (again an AMD card), but even with this I have the same issue, when I set SSAO to ON. I tested it with the newest optional AMD driver (22.2.2) and with the latest recommended driver (21.10.2 WHQL). Before I installed the new card I deleted the old driver by using the Display Driver Uninstaller and did the same when I tested the named two different drivers. So it seems, this issue is caused by an incompatibility of AMD cards and/or drivers with the DCS rendering engine.

Edited February 19, 2022 by Ithronwise

[Flappie]

Thanks for your feedback, @Ithronwise

[Flappie]

@Ithronwise It's supposed to be fixed, now. Can you please confirm?

[Ithronwise]

Hi Flappie,
I tested it and can confirm, the issue is gone. No more black flickering spots in the cockpit with SSAO = On. (But I leave it OFF now, because I didn't miss anything without it in the last months and with it ON I have some light performance hits). Thanks to you and the ED team.

[Flappie]

Thanks for your precious feedback.