NVidia 516.40 Problem

[blaunarwal 432]

Today I installed this new driver and some transparent textures have black boxes now (blinking lights on radio towers) and waterspray at waterfall has white boxes. Deleting shaders had no effect. Any other ideas? 

Dan

[lownslo 590]

The 516.40's are working fine here.  Only did a short 30 minute flight with them but they're a nice driver.  And your problem certainly is not a weak video card!😁  If you are experiencing the anomalies with multiple aircraft, perhaps DDU the drivers and then do a clean reinstall.

[georgio1952 52]

did you delete prepar3d cfg?

[Joseph29 225]

9 hours ago, blaunarwal said:

Today I installed this new driver and some transparent textures have black boxes now (blinking lights on radio towers) and waterspray at waterfall has white boxes. Deleting shaders had no effect. Any other ideas? 

Dan

 

I am having the same problems with this new driver.

Edit: I rolled back to the previous driver.

Edited June 16, 2022 by Joseph29

[blaunarwal 432]

55 minutes ago, Joseph29 said:

Edit: I rolled back to the previous driver.

me too 😉

[blaunarwal 432]

2 hours ago, georgio1952 said:

did you delete prepar3d cfg?

I only do that, if the sim crashes from the begin. 

[blaunarwal 432]

5 hours ago, lownslo said:

The 516.40's are working fine here.  Only did a short 30 minute flight with them but they're a nice driver.  And your problem certainly is not a weak video card!😁  If you are experiencing the anomalies with multiple aircraft, perhaps DDU the drivers and then do a clean reinstall.

I assume there´s a setting that need to be changed and you already have it. Maybe we find out or wait another month or the hotfix driver.

[Emile 28]

3 hours ago, blaunarwal said:

me too 😉

Win 11 back to 512.95

Let's wait ...

A guru will find the solution

Have a nice day

[Juliett Alfa Romeo 508]

Delete shaders?

[markoxley 0]

Tried deleting Shaders and also using fresh copy of Shaders HLSL still no joy.

Going back to old driver does not cure it either have used DDU as well 

[adam77 63]

After investigating this issue, I believe Nvidia have messed up with the latest driver update and will be issuing a fix soon. 

 

It only happens when the user installs the latest driver and uninstalling, repairing or even uninstalling the sim doesnt fix it. To me, this suggests its the driver update that has changed some Windows files or the way the opacity for transparency is shown, revealing the black box (which should be invisible) on the strobe light of selected planes. 

 

I have yet to hear from anyone that the default planes are affected, its selective users and selective planes. This could be a permanent change, meaning the plane devs (oh dear) will need to update the strobe effects (fx) file to rectify it. Im confident that Nvidia have messed up and will issue a fix for it in the near future. 

If not, then its gonna be down to the devs to alter that strobe file to reverse the transparency on the effect file. 

[Joseph29 225]

1 minute ago, adam77 said:

 I have yet to hear from anyone that the default planes are affected, its selective users and selective planes. This could be a permanent change, meaning the plane devs (oh dear) will need to update the strobe effects (fx) file to rectify it. Im confident that Nvidia have messed up and will issue a fix for it in the near future.

I saw it with the default F-22.

[adam77 63]

ah okay, brill. So its a global change. Have you seen this in games as well? 

Edited June 16, 2022 by adam77

[Benbo 53]

Experienced the exact same problem with the Aerosoft Airbus and the Mooney Acclaim(default aircraft),rolled back to the previous driver and issue fixed,so for me at least its not a windows problem but a Nvidia driver issue.

Edited June 16, 2022 by Benbo

[cadetski 4]

On 6/15/2022 at 9:16 PM, blaunarwal said:

Today I installed this new driver and some transparent textures have black boxes now (blinking lights on radio towers) and waterspray at waterfall has white boxes. Deleting shaders had no effect. Any other ideas? 

Dan

Same problem here. On navigation lights. Also on some ground flashing lights in airports. Also the "dirt" animation when you roll your gear over somewhere non-asphalt you get white boxes instead..