So, what's the cure against flickering shadows (ATi)

[Rattlehead]

Originally Posted by Codex

Well I must be the odd one out because I haven't had any flickering problems until installing the April 27 beta patch.

I haven't installed any beta patch, and I'm still getting flicker...it seems a bit better now after checking out the shadowmaps, but it's still there.

[MegOhm]

Originally Posted by Goanna

@W0ef...You may very well be right... at this point I'm just happy that I can fly

@ MegOhm CCC and Ingame settings attached

Cheers

Goanna

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Thanks, I have completed several suggested tweaks and our settings are close but a little different. CLOD is running pretty smooth again and is very flyable. Two Things I did was change the render line in the config.ini from
Render=D3D10_0 to Render=D3D11_0 and Process Affinity Mask to 63. That made the difference for me.

I went from large black areas on the ground, constant stutters, seeing the prop spinner through the cockpit gauge panel, irregular river banks and coast line, just funky rendering, to a now stutter free and graphically "normal" Sim. It actually runs smooth now and looks good again!

Today I will remove the UBI video, logo.wmw at start up that is reported to lock card clock speeds to 400 in the EU version.

I guess the next patch will be another start all over LOL!

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[Wolf_Rider]

I tried the DX11_0 setting and got FPS halved, no real image quality improvement and a black circle around the edge of the viewing area, plus rough chunky beaches Dx10_1 was worser, with rough chunky beaches.

[W0ef]

I would not recommend setting dx11 myself, but if it helps people great!

I think it actually reverts to rendering in DirectX9 though when you set it to 11.

I have been tweaking lots with my conf.ini and had some success setting FastTransparancy to 0, but it was very inconsistent and I lost my no flicker shadows when trying to replicate what I had done.

I think the best thing we can do is stay patient and hope that the next patch will have shadows sorted, I don´t think it should be too tough to fix (flying outside your plane instead of inside the cockpit has the correct, no flicker shadows)

[FZG_Immel]

same here with a Gef 570..

flickerring of shadows is a plague