wave texture flashing

[mike stryczek 23]

I am slightly struggling with the water wave texture flashing as I'm crossing 1600 feet.

On the climb and descend all my water will flash bright white for fraction of a second, I wonder if there is a way of fixing it .

I have tried all kinds of different textures from quite small to very large from 2meg up to 10meg size and they all flash about the same so I don't think it is the size of the file.

My computer is quite decent with 4770K OC 4.4 and GTX 780 TI.
I realize that water is made completely different in DX10 .

I understand that different level of textures is loading at that time but it gets me every time.

mike

[SteveFx 258]

I feel that I am always the bearer of bad news.

 

The white flashes (there are two) at 1500ft and 11,000ft are the transitions points at which the scaling of the bump maps changes - the way the shaders were shipped requires a switch between different compiled shader versions at this point and somehow that is causing a stall even if the new shader version is already compiled.

 

I experimented by changing the water shader and removing all the texture sampling and it still occurs.

[mike stryczek 23]

Thank you for your reply Steve

I was suspecting something like that and was blaming my system

Hopefully at some point you can crack it

best

mike

[mwa05 108]

Sorry to necropost but this is the only thread anywhere that sets out the issue and has a clear explanation of the cause.

 

In building a new dedicated flight sim PC over the last month, replacing a 7 year old system (which could never run DX10 as well as DX9), DX10 shines on the 2016 build computer with FSX Acceleration but for this issue.

 

However, there is a solution, which is to not use a Water 2x setting. Water 1x High eliminates the issue, so it has just been a matter of finding the best REX texture set that looks the best in 1x high.

 

For those who may be "living" with the limitation.

 

Regards,

 

Mark

[maxhades 8]

Since yesterday i have installed dx10 fixer same problem! Good to know i am not the only one.

 

Max

[HighBypass 2,339]

Not using water 2x unfortunately means that Cloud Shadows (if you have it installed) will not show up I believe.