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Black dots flickering in the sky
Posted: 2013-08-11 16:15
by Mats391
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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Re: Black dots flickering in the sky
Posted: 2013-08-11 16:21
by 3ti65
Just a frisbee
Re: Black dots flickering in the sky
Posted: 2013-08-11 16:36
by Domas118
congrats,you photographed UFO's

Re: Black dots flickering in the sky
Posted: 2013-08-11 16:42
by AfterDune
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?
Re: Black dots flickering in the sky
Posted: 2013-08-11 17:41
by Mats391
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
Re: Black dots flickering in the sky
Posted: 2013-08-11 18:06
by Raklodder
I have the same issue, however with flickering shadows in the ground, with or without AA, sir.
Re: Black dots flickering in the sky
Posted: 2013-08-11 21:53
by PLODDITHANLEY
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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Re: Black dots flickering in the sky
Posted: 2013-08-11 22:40
by Onil
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.
Re: Black dots flickering in the sky
Posted: 2013-08-11 22:56
by PR0_SNIPE
Happens to me too.
Re: Black dots flickering in the sky
Posted: 2013-08-11 22:59
by PLODDITHANLEY
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.
Re: Black dots flickering in the sky
Posted: 2013-08-11 23:01
by Tarranauha200
Do you have your GPU overclocked? I sometimes OC on some poorly optimized maps and these small black dots appear sometimes.
Re: Black dots flickering in the sky
Posted: 2013-08-11 23:11
by PLODDITHANLEY
No its a laptop plus I'm too stoopid to know how to. Recent reinstall of VBF/PR.
Re: Black dots flickering in the sky
Posted: 2013-08-11 23:16
by PR0_SNIPE
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Re: Black dots flickering in the sky
Posted: 2013-08-11 23:47
by Rusty_42
Same thing.
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Re: Black dots flickering in the sky
Posted: 2013-08-12 09:07
by Mats391
Could this be the cause?
Changelog wrote:Added shader effect to fix black spots on terrain for certain graphics cards.
Re: Black dots flickering in the sky
Posted: 2015-05-17 02:56
by PLODDITHANLEY
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...
Re: Black dots flickering in the sky
Posted: 2018-04-28 18:55
by WeeGeez
Was this ever solved? I am getting this on ramiel and fallujah.