Screen Flicker since latest Up date

[Bobstar]

Game and Screen perfectly ok last night, Up date carried out 30 mins ago, now screen flickers. Game unplayable. Any ideas?

[ectomia]

I too had an occasional flicker when within deep fog, using VR on Quest 2 and RTX 3060
Not all the time

 

[YoYo]

Please to add the track.

[312_JS]

Same here. Extremely annoying.

Somebody at ED Discord said it has to do with fog being set to low altitude and that it's being looked at.

EDIT: Added a Discord screenshot.

Edited December 5, 2024 by 312_JS

[Bobstar]

Fog not on.....

[Bobstar]

see Track File as requested @YoYo Not just in cockpit but, when flying as well.

Flicker 1.trk

[YoYo]

13 minutes ago, Bobstar said:

see Track File as requested @YoYo Not just in cockpit but, when flying as well.

Flicker 1.trk 53.11 kB · 1 download

Ok, I'll check it.

[Bobstar]

Thanks.

[Raven (Elysian Angel)]

I wonder if that is related to this:

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[Mike145]

I too have the flickering at all times, no fog selected.

Removed all mods

Verified files through Steam

Placed one UH1 on Caucasus map, nothing else selected, flickering.  Thought it might be headtracking but still there when deselected.  Tried to make video but it didn't show up on replay.

Log attached.

Edit:

Just flown a few more missions, two on the Nevada map (F4 and UH1), very little flickering.  Two on the caucuses map (UH1), lots of flickering, especially over water and the transition from land to water. 

dcs.log  

Edited December 6, 2024 by Mike145

[ZACHI]

I have the flickering too at certain view angles.

dcs.log

[Bobstar]

Checked all my A/c out on all my maps, flickering on all occasions although the F18 seems to be the worst and the F16 the least  affected? Checked all drivers, updates, TrackIR, computer inputs/outputs etc, No joy. Sadly the game is still unplayable, no DCS for the foreseeable future I guess?

[sleighzy]

16 hours ago, ZACHI said:

I have the flickering too at certain view angles.

dcs.log 326.68 kB · 2 downloads

Your game contains a large number of mods, along with a number of IC failures for texture mods, and some script failures. Remove your mods, perform a slow repair of the game, and then delete the fxo and metashader2 caches prior to starting the game again.

A few other tuning suggestions from the log analyzer as well that may help your game performance (take it or leave it)

• Turn off SSAO.
• Turn off Depth of Field.
• Turn off SSLR.
• Set Water to Medium or Low.
• Set Shadows to Medium.
• Turn down Anisotropic Filtering.
• Set Preload Radius to max. 60000.
• Disable civil traffic.

Edited December 7, 2024 by sleighzy

[ZACHI]

3 hours ago, sleighzy said:

Your game contains a large number of mods, along with a number of IC failures for texture mods, and some script failures. Remove your mods, perform a slow repair of the game, and then delete the fxo and metashader2 caches prior to starting the game again.

A few other tuning suggestions from the log analyzer as well that may help your game performance (take it or leave it)

• Turn off SSAO.
• Turn off Depth of Field.
• Turn off SSLR.
• Set Water to Medium or Low.
• Set Shadows to Medium.
• Turn down Anisotropic Filtering.
• Set Preload Radius to max. 60000.
• Disable civil traffic.

Thanks @sleighzy !

The same setup worked perfectly before the last update, and as I saw this thread I assumed there is an issue with the new update. I’ll try out the “cleanup process” you wrote and check again. 
As for the performance, the game worked well for me but I’ll check out all your recommendations

Edited December 7, 2024 by ZACHI

[ZACHI]

I suspect that my flickering are caused due to Reshade; worked well before the last update. 
Anyone that has flickering is using Reshade as well?

[312_JS]

51 minutes ago, ZACHI said:

I suspect that my flickering are caused due to Reshade; worked well before the last update. 
Anyone that has flickering is using Reshade as well?

I do, but uninstalling Reshade didn't solve the issue.

[sleighzy]

31 minutes ago, 312_JS said:

I do, but uninstalling Reshade didn't solve the issue.

I don't know if you play in VR, but if you do then check your DCS log file for the below line in case it's still hanging around:

Name=XR_APILAYER_reshade

[SWAR1]

On 12/5/2024 at 3:07 PM, Raven (Elysian Angel) said:

I wonder if that is related to this:

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I have this also after the update in VR and 2d.

[312_JS]

1 hour ago, sleighzy said:

I don't know if you play in VR, but if you do then check your DCS log file for the below line in case it's still hanging around:

Name=XR_APILAYER_reshade

No, 2D only.

[312_JS]

On 12/5/2024 at 6:27 PM, YoYo said:

Ok, I'll check it.

Any update, please?

[ZACHI]

On 12/7/2024 at 10:00 PM, 312_JS said:

I do, but uninstalling Reshade didn't solve the issue.

I didn't uninstall Reshade, but disabling it in DCS with the hotkey (End key) stops my flickering.

Edited December 10, 2024 by ZACHI

[312_JS]

19 hours ago, ZACHI said:

I didn't uninstall Reshade, but disabling it in DCS with the hotkey (End key) stops my flickering.

That was the first thing I tried before uninstalling it. Made no difference.

Flickering still there after today's update.
Attaching a track.

flickering.trk

[312_JS]

Here's a video. (used a phone camera because it shows up much better than a straight recording for some reason)

 

And a DCS.log

 

dcs.log

Edited December 11, 2024 by 312_JS

[312_JS]

I believe it does have something to do with the fog because it started with the patch which introduced it and it flickers between more and less saturated image, as if the fog is turning on an off.

[Bobstar]

Same as before after todays update. Checked all drivers, settings, maps and ac. Disabled Windows MPO as requested by others which had no effect. Flickers in all configurations. Track File attached. Some feedback would be nice on the way ahead bearing in mind there's a lot of people with the same problem since the 4th December update. Best Regards.

Flicker 2.trk