Black dots flickering in the sky

Post by **Mats391** » 2013-08-11 16:15

Since 1.0 i stared seeing black dots flashing up in the sky on almost every map.
Managed to take a screen of one on Khamisiyah:

off topic: the avenger sights are really hard to see when looking into bright sky

I never experienced this before not in air nor on ground.

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3ti65 · Post by **3ti65** » 2013-08-11 16:21

Just a frisbee

Domas118 · Post by **Domas118** » 2013-08-11 16:36

congrats,you photographed UFO's

Post by **AfterDune** » 2013-08-11 16:42

Looks more like video artifacts. Does that only happen in the sky, or other spots too?

Also, do you know the temperature of your cpu/gpu?

Post by **Mats391** » 2013-08-11 17:41

cleared shaders again and tested, didnt help.

[R-DEV]AfterDune wrote:Looks more like video artifacts. Does that only happen in the sky, or other spots too?

Also, do you know the temperature of your cpu/gpu?

mostly in the sky, very rarely on the ground and then they are way bigger.
temperatures:
cpu: ~50?C
gpu: ~65?C

Raklodder · Post by **Raklodder** » 2013-08-11 18:06

I have the same issue, however with flickering shadows in the ground, with or without AA, sir.

PLODDITHANLEY · Post by **PLODDITHANLEY** » 2013-08-11 21:53

I get EXACTLY the same artifacts, I didn't in .98, I don't think I did in Beta can't be 100% though.

Same shape too. I'll try to get a SS when I next play.

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Onil · Post by **Onil** » 2013-08-11 22:40

I get the same as well... Also had them in the Beta.

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I lowered quite alot of the video settings because of FPS drops and black dots but it didn't change much.

PR0_SNIPE · Post by **PR0_SNIPE** » 2013-08-11 22:56

Happens to me too.

PLODDITHANLEY · Post by **PLODDITHANLEY** » 2013-08-11 22:59

Specs pls Prosnipe.

Support copy to clipboard then paste pls dude.

So far we're all on HD 1920 1080 on Nvidia....

I running through an HDMI cable.

Tarranauha200 · Post by **Tarranauha200** » 2013-08-11 23:01

Do you have your GPU overclocked? I sometimes OC on some poorly optimized maps and these small black dots appear sometimes.

PLODDITHANLEY · Post by **PLODDITHANLEY** » 2013-08-11 23:11

No its a laptop plus I'm too stoopid to know how to. Recent reinstall of VBF/PR.

PR0_SNIPE · Post by **PR0_SNIPE** » 2013-08-11 23:16

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Post by **Rusty_42** » 2013-08-11 23:47

Same thing.

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Post by **Mats391** » 2013-08-12 09:07

Could this be the cause?

Changelog wrote:Added shader effect to fix black spots on terrain for certain graphics cards.

PLODDITHANLEY · Post by **PLODDITHANLEY** » 2015-05-17 02:56

I recently put in a replacement second hand GPU ( the same 9600M GT) running a different VBIOS but artifacts still there.
All of our cards run on pretty similar gpu cores...

WeeGeez · Post by **WeeGeez** » 2018-04-28 18:55

Was this ever solved? I am getting this on ramiel and fallujah.

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