Locomotives are flashing??

[BNSF650]

I bought another new card. But now my graphics in the game kinda flashing?? Why is it doing this?

[buzz456]

What did you get? If you tell us what it is then maybe we can make some suggestions.

[BNSF650]

Radeon R7770 Core Edition 1 GB DDR5

[BNSF650]

Do the faces flicker when you zoom? If so this can't be fixed. Its a problem with the models themsalves. Better models don't do this

Yea its the RSC Models.

[BNSF650]

Yes that's normal even at max settings I get that

Dang no way to fix it at all?

[buzz456]

What's flickering? The lights when distant or what?

[BNSF650]

The Locomotives them self.

[BNSF650]

Yes just like that..

[BNSF650]

Yes that's with everything all the way up i don't think it can be helped

Dang.

[buzz456]

Mine doesn't seem to do that.

[buzz456]

By mine I meant the SD40 is what I tried.

[BNSF650]

Yea i dont know why it does this though.

[arizonachris]

I'm presuming y'all mean those little black squares flashing on and off in random places? My GTX670 2Gb doesn't do that either. That's not caused by an "AA" (anti aliasing) setting, that's for jagged lines. This could be an "AF" setting (anisotropic filtering), or it could be an in game graphics setting, but I'm not sure. It could also be settings too high and your card is running out of video memory, like with a 1Gb card.

BNSF, if I remember, you just had an Nvidia card installed, now changed to an ATI card? (if not then I just had another senior moment) When switching brands of cards, you must uninstall ALL the current card's drivers. I use Driver Sweeper http://www.majorgeeks.com/files/details ... er%29.html Run that, telling it what drivers to remove, reboot then install new drivers.

[Ericmopar]

That's "normal" I think it depends on certain things like scenery quality, GPU capabilities, LOD of the particular asset etc.
I usually see it on trackside signage. Sometimes setting the LOD bias to "clamp" instead of "allow" will help that some, but it will cost some in FPS.
That last one is for Nvidia, but I assume AMD cards have the same function somewhere.

I almost forgot to mention, if you are using the Anisotropic Filtering, the LOD bias is supposed to be set to "Clamp" on most GPU drivers.

Also: Chris is right about unistalling all remnants of the other brands drivers first.

[Ericmopar]

I have a 2gb card and with settings maxed out it still does that.

Yeah, I have a 3 GB GTX 780 and it still can't take advantage of those specs with this sim. I can however run 2X2SSAA now which make a noticeable difference. I thought I'd try going back to 8XMSAA and was appalled the other night. I had forgotten about "spinning" telephone pole tops etc.