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Locomotives are flashing??

Unread postPosted: Sun Feb 16, 2014 10:18 am
by BNSF650
I bought another new card. But now my graphics in the game kinda flashing?? Why is it doing this?

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Unread postPosted: Sun Feb 16, 2014 10:24 am
by buzz456
What did you get? If you tell us what it is then maybe we can make some suggestions.

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Unread postPosted: Sun Feb 16, 2014 10:30 am
by BNSF650
Radeon R7770 Core Edition 1 GB DDR5

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Unread postPosted: Sun Feb 16, 2014 3:08 pm
by BNSF650
mdurdan wrote: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 !!*ok*!!



Yea its the RSC Models.

Re: Locomotives are flashing??

Unread postPosted: Sun Feb 16, 2014 3:41 pm
by BNSF650
mdurdan wrote:Yes that's normal even at max settings I get that *!embar*!


Dang no way to fix it at all?

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Unread postPosted: Sun Feb 16, 2014 5:12 pm
by buzz456
What's flickering? The lights when distant or what?

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Unread postPosted: Sun Feb 16, 2014 5:28 pm
by BNSF650
The Locomotives them self.

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Unread postPosted: Sun Feb 16, 2014 5:47 pm
by BNSF650
Yes just like that.. !*hp*!

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Unread postPosted: Sun Feb 16, 2014 6:05 pm
by BNSF650
mdurdan wrote:Yes that's with everything all the way up i don't think it can be helped *!embar*!



Dang.

Re: Locomotives are flashing??

Unread postPosted: Sun Feb 16, 2014 6:18 pm
by buzz456
Mine doesn't seem to do that.

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Unread postPosted: Sun Feb 16, 2014 6:53 pm
by buzz456
By mine I meant the SD40 is what I tried.

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Unread postPosted: Sun Feb 16, 2014 7:51 pm
by BNSF650
Yea i dont know why it does this though.

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Unread postPosted: Sun Feb 16, 2014 11:11 pm
by 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.

Re: Locomotives are flashing??

Unread postPosted: Mon Feb 17, 2014 12:02 am
by 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.

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Unread postPosted: Mon Feb 17, 2014 1:59 am
by Ericmopar
mdurdan wrote:I have a 2gb card and with settings maxed out it still does that. *!embar*!


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.