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[Peter Lynn]

I am sorry if I have posted this in the wrong place but I have suddenly started having issues with ship smoke in up to date BAT. The flashing it particularly bad in carrier launches. It begins maybe 2 secs into the mission and there is a simultaneous very slight screen flicker. It continues after take off and affects other ships in the same group. There are white and black patches appearing in the smoke, and sometimes the complete smoke trial flashes fron white to black. Could someone please help me out here?

Thank you.

[PO_MAK_249RIP]

Try here m8  https://www.sas1946.com/main/index.php/topic,54580.0.html

[Peter Lynn]

Thank you for your help. I looked carefully at the link you kindly provided but could not find where it provided any of the necessary information. If I could just obtain some guidance as to whether this is a driver or a config.ini issue it would be helpful. This topic does not seem to be covered anywhere I have looked. I have cleaned out the drivers and reinstalled, tried several config.inis that I have saved over time. I have also trawled the web extensively but found nothing on this particular issue. Any contributions received with humble appreciation....

[citizen67]

Try here m8  https://www.sas1946.com/main/index.php/topic,54580.0.html

Me too I have the same problem, and the link above is broken...

[Vampire_pilot]

the advise in that link is no longer valid and therefore removed.

Also, it would not solve your graphics issue anyway, as you can read. Sounds like general a graphics setting issue to me...
Sorry.

[citizen67]

the advise in that link is no longer valid and therefore removed.

Also, it would not solve your graphics issue anyway, as you can read. Sounds like general a graphics setting issue to me...
Sorry.

Thanks, meanwhile I found this:

I got this shadowa flickering using Gurners effects on the side of the smoke, the shadows blink continiously. I am sure it has nothing to do with the mod but my conf.ini settings.

... yep, I had that very same shadows flickering until I changed Effects=2   >>> to =1 ... 

Maybe can solve the problem.

[WxTech]

Effects=2 adds shadowing to smoke, in the same way as done for the cumulus clouds. This increases CPU load and hence imposes a not inconsequential drop in frame rate. When things are on the busy side, as when many smoke particles are being generated, this flicker occurs.

I hate it so much that I won't use Effects=2, even if it didn't cause a drop in fps. To circumvent the lack of shadowing with Effects=1, I use many smoke textures that are in color, with some contrast in hue and/or tone. In some ways I find this to be superior.