Spinning prop animation bug and artefacts

grafspee · April 26, 2023

As per title i noticed it also in Spitfire, Mosquito, Fw190-D, P-47.

Ala13_ManOWar · April 26, 2023

ST or MT? Did you delete FXO and Metashaders2 folders? Checked for graphics card drivers?

grafspee · April 27, 2023

20 hours ago, Ala13_ManOWar said:

ST or MT? Did you delete FXO and Metashaders2 folders? Checked for graphics card drivers?

ST or MT what is it.

FXO and Metashaders2 deleted.

Yes GPU driver is installed

Ala13_ManOWar · April 27, 2023

Single Thread, or Multi Thread, it's one of the latest big things added to the sim and MT can cause some problems sometimes.

I know GPU driver is installed, I mean which version? Latest? Old one? Have you recently updated the drivers? Haven't you? Whenever it's about graphical glitches that's one of the firsts things to think about, Nvidia drivers sometimes mess up whatever it is, either because they're new or because they're "old".

grafspee · April 28, 2023

14 hours ago, Ala13_ManOWar said:

Single Thread, or Multi Thread, it's one of the latest big things added to the sim and MT can cause some problems sometimes.

I know GPU driver is installed, I mean which version? Latest? Old one? Have you recently updated the drivers? Haven't you? Whenever it's about graphical glitches that's one of the firsts things to think about, Nvidia drivers sometimes mess up whatever it is, either because they're new or because they're "old".

Don't know how to turn off/on MT.

I always use latest drivers.

Anyway for me this doesn't look like any gpu driver artefact.

For me it looks like prop animation was messed up. I noticed it very long time since then i upgraded gpu driver at least 3 times.

Art-J · April 28, 2023

Graf is right. The glitch is there, latest OB, latest NV drivers, both ST and MT.

Recent DCS updates generally caused some extra glitches in warbird prop animations.

For example, apart from what's shown above, there's a faint extra outline of the prop arc where there shouldn't be any (outside of yellow-painted tips) - see the screenshot below. I've noticed it in P-47 as well, and saw someone else reporting the same thing for Mosquito. Wouldn't be surprised if German birds were also affected, but since they don't have yellow tips, maybe it's just not noticeable.

It's not a major problem, but I wouldn't mind seeing it fixed.

Ala13_ManOWar · April 28, 2023

This @grafspee, thanks @Art-J. That's how you retrieve information for a bug report, and what I meant to pay attention to.

Art-J · April 28, 2023

The only question is, will it be more effective / visible to create a single compund bug thread with a bunch of different warbird screenshots in "Western Europe 1944" section, or create similar threads in each individual warbirds sections. I guess it's the latter, but I haven't flown Mosquito in a while .

Edited April 28, 2023 by Art-J

grafspee · April 28, 2023

@Art-J Problem is that western Europe 1944 section does not have bug section, and bug report in general section will drown quick.

There is new damage model bug section there and i see ppl reporting things not necessary connected with damage model.

I will do couple screen shots, and i already noticed that this prop bug stretch across all ED warbirds including German's too.

I will and that not only this strange artifacts appeared but overall shape and size of the blade when spinning are different and does not match the actual shape.

unfortunately i don't have any old screens for comparision.

Edited May 3, 2023 by grafspee

NineLine · May 2, 2023

Hey guys, I am not seeing this internally in Multithreading, it might be that its fixed and not merged. I will leave these reports open and if you guys still see issues in the not too distant future ping me again please. Thanks!