investigating MFD Map - Sea Blanking Out/Intermittent During Flight - Caucasus

[Leg2ion]

Had a look through the various forums - but couldn't find anything on this. 

Set up a training mission in Caucasus - headed out towards the coast, and the sea intermittently blanks on the moving map during flight. All cockpit settings left on default from a hot start. I don't think this is the same issue reported for Kola where the map completely disappears due to scaling - it is almost like the sea has been cropped/photo-edited out using a lasso on an intermittent basis - and drops in and out. Only mods I had running was Taz tree mod and CGTC Caucasus Texture Pack. Screenshots and trackfile attached - along with a log file. Have just carried out a full (slow repair) - with no improvement.

dcs.log MFD Blanking.trk

[Lord Vader]

Hi @Leg2ion

I can observe what you say on your track, but loading a fresh mission I cannot reproduce.

I can see you are using a Helios multi-monitor configuration, can you try again with a standard configuration? 

[Leg2ion]

Hi @Lord Vader.

So - binned off head tracking, helios and dropped to single screen (1920x1080) using the '1 Screen' profile available in settings. Flew the same - same results. Then, had another thought and uninstalled all the helios patches - just in case. Restarted DCS, same results.

So - screenshots with/without blanking. Two tracks - #3 before removing Helios patches, #4 afterwards, and 2 x logs - 'dcs' for MFD3 and 'dcs2' for MFD4.

One thing to note - and not sure if you can pick it up in the tracks - but the MFD screens did appear to jump in terms of video realtime. 

 

MFD3.trk dcs.log MFD4.trk dcs2.log

[Floyd1212]

On 5/6/2024 at 3:38 PM, Leg2ion said:

Only mods I had running was Taz tree mod and CGTC Caucasus Texture Pack.

Have you tried running without these texture mods?

Also, are you using ReShade at all?  The contrast or gamma in your screenshots looks different from what I am used to.

[Leg2ion]

2 hours ago, Floyd1212 said:

Have you tried running without these texture mods?

Also, are you using ReShade at all?  The contrast or gamma in your screenshots looks different from what I am used to.

Hi @Floyd1212 - yep (and many thanks for the input - all suggestions appreciated) - emphasis on 'had' followed by slow repair with no improvement - so thus far have:

Noticed issue. Reported.

Removed Texture packs - no change.

Slow Repaired - no change.

Swapped to 'basic' 1 screen setup, no helios (viewports patched, viewports patching removed) no head tracking - no change. Included in this is no viewport exports at all - so no other screens involved.

Moved back from DLAA to MSAA - no change.

I am not using reshade - but if I recall the screenshots were with the CGTC pack installed so maybe that's why things appear different - re-installed after previously removing them with no change. My gamma - I think - set as 1.8.

Used both the basic DCS launcher and the MT Launcher (though not sure if that makes any difference nowadays) - no change.

Edited May 8, 2024 by Leg2ion

[Lord Vader]

Once more, I cannot reproduce this in a fresh mission.
Are you using the same mission over and over? Have you tried running a simple new mission or even an Instant Action one? 

 

[Leg2ion]

Ok - set up a mission out of another runway - no problems whatsoever. Then did the same out of Sochi - the MFD blanking re-occurred. 

Looking at the MFD there appears to be some type of tile mismatch on the MFD - almost as if different data sets have been used?

So, and never having used them before, installed Flappies raster charts/maps for the region (and oh my god they are awesome!!). Minor blanking still occurred - not as severe though - but definitely still there - just slightly further out to sea.

Just ran the same 'mission' in A10 - no problems -so guessing AH/Map/Location related?

MFD6.trk MFD5.trk

Edited May 9, 2024 by Leg2ion
More info.

[Lord Vader]

It could be a matter of positioning but I don't see it on my side when loading a fresh mission on the same locations.

We'll keep an eye out for this one, but for now, I cannot reproduce.