Clouds Flickering

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Everytime i fly and there are clouds i notice the flicker black once in awhile.I have a brand new comp with a 15-3570k and ati 7850 2gb gpu with 8 gigs of ram.I play some other games and everything works fine.I have all settings maxed out with 8192 shadows and full antialis.Is there anything i can do to fix this problem?Please advise.\

Thank you

[Skuzzy]

Your video card does not have enough video RAM to run with a shadow size of 8192 with full anti-aliasing (note, 8x anti-aliasing with a shadow texture size of 8192 requires a full 2GB of video RAM all by itself).  Your card would need more than 4GB of RAM to do so.

Reduce the shadow texture size.  If you are running with environmental mapping enabled, and full anti-aliasing, set the texture size to 1024.  That should help.

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Ok i will try this.When i hit ctrl i it says i am only using 17mbs of my vid card memory.

[Skuzzy]

Ok i will try this.When i hit ctrl i it says i am only using 17mbs of my vid card memory.

That is due to Microsoft changing the way the function we use to get the available memory from the video card.  They broke it for DirectX 9 games in Vista/Windows 7 & 8.  We have to figure out a different way to do it.

[numb1]

Still have the same problem with the clouds flickering.Its not all the time but its annoying.Is there any other way i can try to fix this?

Thank you for helping Skuzzy.

[Skuzzy]

Still have the same problem with the clouds flickering.Its not all the time but its annoying.Is there any other way i can try to fix this?

Thank you for helping Skuzzy.

Try going to the extreme and disable all the advanced graphics and do not force anything in the driver.  I know there have been some issues with the latest ATI drivers, but this is a new one.

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I have tried everything.I turned of vsync with everything off and get around 470fps but clouds still flicker.I play other games with no issue at all.I have run benchmarks on my gpu and everything seems fine.I didnt have this problem with my 6 year old Nvidia card.Of course nothing looked as good but the clouds didnt do this.Anything else i can try?Should i try calling ATI support?

[Skuzzy]

I have tried everything.I turned of vsync with everything off and get around 470fps but clouds still flicker.I play other games with no issue at all.I have run benchmarks on my gpu and everything seems fine.I didnt have this problem with my 6 year old Nvidia card.Of course nothing looked as good but the clouds didnt do this.Anything else i can try?Should i try calling ATI support?

Have you tried different drivers?

Be sure to enable vertical sync.  I assume you were only testing without it enabled, but the game will not run right with vertical sync disabled.

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yes sir my vsync was only off for testing.I have tried 12.08 12.10 and beta driver 12.11 and same thing with all of them.Everything else in game is amazing its just the clouds.I sent a email to HIS which is my gpu manufac.

[Skuzzy]

yes sir my vsync was only off for testing.I have tried 12.08 12.10 and beta driver 12.11 and same thing with all of them.Everything else in game is amazing its just the clouds.I sent a email to HIS which is my gpu manufac.

Did you purge the drivers before swapping each of them out?

[gyrene81]

did you turn off anti-aliasing in ah and in the amd vision control center? if you haven't done it yet, set up a graphics profile with the correct settings for ah in the vision control center to use when you're going to play ah.

[numb1]

How do you purge the drivers?

[numb1]

did you turn off anti-aliasing in ah and in the amd vision control center? if you haven't done it yet, set up a graphics profile with the correct settings for ah in the vision control center to use when you're going to play ah.

Why would i want AA off?Game doesnt look good with it off.

[Skuzzy]

Why would i want AA off?Game doesnt look good with it off.

It is a suggestion to see what could be causing the problem.

[numb1]

I will try turning it off.How do i purge the drivers?