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Shadow Flickering?
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Major Nova
Ello Pus Corporation
#1 - 2012-05-14 15:55:26 UTC  |  Edited by: Major Nova
Sorry if this has been posted somewhere else.

I'm getting shadow flickering on large objects such as the stations and jump gates whenever I look at them.
Im using a Radeon 5850 with driver version 12.3.
My other mate also gets this problem but not sure what card he uses, I'll update when I can ask him.

I'm sure someone will suggest to turn shadow off, and yes this will solve the problem. But if I can I'd like to have it turned on.

Thanks for your time.

Fly Safe

Nova
Major Nova
Ello Pus Corporation
#2 - 2012-05-15 12:35:34 UTC  |  Edited by: Major Nova
BUMP

EDIT: now using driver 12.4, but shadow problem is still there.
Major Nova
Ello Pus Corporation
#3 - 2012-05-20 12:52:31 UTC
BUMP
Lara Sidewinder
State War Academy
Caldari State
#4 - 2012-05-20 22:02:56 UTC
also having a sim issue but with certain textures flickering, sun, gates, stations some times there fine other times its so annoying

im using dual amd 6870's

any help would be ace
Major Nova
Ello Pus Corporation
#5 - 2012-05-22 15:58:25 UTC
Just spoke with my mate, he is also using a Radeon card and having the issues.
Maybe this is a Radeon problem and not EVE related.

Anyone with a Nividia card having these issues?
Romedda
Indy Blasters
#6 - 2012-05-22 16:15:40 UTC
using a laptop with Intel HD 3000 getting the same issues.
Cameron Zero
Sebiestor Tribe
#7 - 2012-05-25 06:05:42 UTC
I'm using a Radeon 6870 and also experience this problem.

"I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. …"
Major Nova
Ello Pus Corporation
#8 - 2012-05-26 14:47:59 UTC
CCP can we get some response on this, 5 people now reporting this problem over a varied GPU range. Must be a game side problem.

Thanks
Hethor
Sebiestor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#9 - 2012-05-26 17:11:39 UTC
I've experienced the same problem, and use two AMD 7970s. Seems like the game isn't playing nice with non Nvidia cards in this situation.
Fairhand
Aliastra
Gallente Federation
#10 - 2012-05-26 20:16:07 UTC
If you look a few pages into the General Forum thread about performance drop with the new missile system, you will see that a GM asked us to submit bug reports of hardware used and driver version when we spotted the shadow flickering issue.

I have not seen it for a few days so I am waiting till it reoccurs before I report, but I am on a 5870 1Gb and drivers 12.4 and got it.

Is there a reliable way to recreate it on demand?
Major Nova
Ello Pus Corporation
#11 - 2012-05-26 23:32:01 UTC
Fairhand wrote:
If you look a few pages into the General Forum thread about performance drop with the new missile system, you will see that a GM asked us to submit bug reports of hardware used and driver version when we spotted the shadow flickering issue.

I have not seen it for a few days so I am waiting till it reoccurs before I report, but I am on a 5870 1Gb and drivers 12.4 and got it.

Is there a reliable way to recreate it on demand?


This post was created a week before the Inferno expansion. and so far I haven't found a way to force it to happen, best bet is to leave frags open and record as soon as it happens.
Sabotaged
Veritas Vincit
#12 - 2012-05-27 00:45:18 UTC
I already opened a bug report several days ago, surprisingly I was the first cause they said they hadn't heard about it.

Description:
Tranquility - EVE-EVE-TRANQUILITY - 7.41.377452

On certain Stations/Objects there is massive shadow flickering. Ati Radeon 4870 12.3 catalyst. Problem is intermittent. Docking/Undocking and warping back to the station a 2nd time was no shadow flickering. Difficult to reproduce. The Sun will also sometimes flicker.

Other people are experiencing this issue as well, it could be an ATI issue - https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&t=108957

Shadow Quality set to Disabled has no effect.

My brother has Radeon 6950 and my laptop has an ATI 4200 and neither have this issue.

My brother has the exact same setup just different video card and no problems. I don't know why.

I have Interval set to default, Catalyst AI disabled. Triple buffering in OpenGL, High Quality Textures, High Quality Mipmaps, Ansiotropic Filtering Optimization disabled, Trilinear Filtering Optimization Disabled

I usually play in Fixed Window Mode as opposed to Fullscreen - I've gotten mass
Major Nova
Ello Pus Corporation
#13 - 2012-05-27 12:11:56 UTC  |  Edited by: Major Nova
Sabotaged wrote:
I already opened a bug report several days ago, surprisingly I was the first cause they said they hadn't heard about it.

Description:
Tranquility - EVE-EVE-TRANQUILITY - 7.41.377452

On certain Stations/Objects there is massive shadow flickering. Ati Radeon 4870 12.3 catalyst. Problem is intermittent. Docking/Undocking and warping back to the station a 2nd time was no shadow flickering. Difficult to reproduce. The Sun will also sometimes flicker.

Other people are experiencing this issue as well, it could be an ATI issue - https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&t=108957

Shadow Quality set to Disabled has no effect.

My brother has Radeon 6950 and my laptop has an ATI 4200 and neither have this issue.

My brother has the exact same setup just different video card and no problems. I don't know why.

I have Interval set to default, Catalyst AI disabled. Triple buffering in OpenGL, High Quality Textures, High Quality Mipmaps, Ansiotropic Filtering Optimization disabled, Trilinear Filtering Optimization Disabled

I usually play in Fixed Window Mode as opposed to Fullscreen - I've gotten mass


I found that disabling the shadows stopped this from happening, but I want the shadows lol. Its a feature, and one that isn't working correctly. As you said very hard to reproduce the effects, mostly on Stations, stargates; anything really big that casts a shadow, it seems as though it is getting lighting sources from every angle. I play in fullscreen mode and still get the problem, even with the new 12.4 drivers this problem is still there.
Dagger deRuyter
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#14 - 2012-06-28 21:22:30 UTC
I'm having similar issues with flickering - especially near the top of my screen - with an AMD Radeon HD 6750M 1GB card. Hoping it's fixed soon.