Asteroid rendering issues.

Tormentor89 · Aug 3, 2021

Decided to fly to Coeus in Colonia since I get a kick out of visiting Foster Terminal and noticed that the asteroid field around the ship was further out, almost like they were removed or perhaps not rendering correctly. Wasn't sure what the hell was going on so I decided to reload the game and it fixed the issue. Just wondering if anyone has had any issues with asteroid fields not rendering correctly the first time? This is the first time I have witnessed this in Elite, not sure if it's a problem that was introduced recently, or perhaps it's always been there to some degree.

These are from Odyssey (update 6). Something isn't right here as you can see.

The following screenshots are from Horizons. See how much closer the asteroids are to Foster Terminal.

Here's how it looked after reloading back into Odyssey. Seems like the issue was fixed after loading back in.

Ian Doncaster · Aug 3, 2021

Yes - I've also seen this where there's a station in the ring (Moore's Charm in Luchtaine has a similar problem).

For me, not only are the rocks oddly displaced, but they disappear from view if I look straight at them.

It seemed to start after they tried to fix https://issues.frontierstore.net/issue-detail/36945 in Update 5 (or 4? I can't remember) but it doesn't seem to have quite worked.

Darrack · Aug 3, 2021

Same issue here.

Dropping out of SC to Hauser's Reach in Robby i nearly always have to negotiate rocks, this evening did the same but they kept appearing / disappearing,
Obviously a glitch or the crafty sods have installed cloaking devices to lure us onto the rocks for salvage

Fly safe

Bottom Hat · Aug 3, 2021

Be interesting to see if people have this in the non Colonia ring stations (forgive me if the above examples after the OP are). I imagine they will be the same, but you never know.

CptXabaras · Aug 4, 2021

The issue i'm (and at least another forum user) having on asteroid fields is AMD FSR related and it shows like this:

EDO and AMD FSR, more FPS.

FDev have put FSR in to EDO as a way to bring performance up. For those who don't know FSR is an AMD technology which renders at a lower than native resolution and using alsorts of clever stuff up-scales its back to native resolution for the screen at near native image quality, the benefit is...

forums.frontier.co.uk

It looks even worse in movement.

Edit: link to issue tracker https://issues.frontierstore.net/issue-detail/41165

Tormentor89 · Aug 5, 2021

CptXabaras said:
The issue i'm (and at least another forum user) having on asteroid fields is AMD FSR related and it shows like this:

EDO and AMD FSR, more FPS.

FDev have put FSR in to EDO as a way to bring performance up. For those who don't know FSR is an AMD technology which renders at a lower than native resolution and using alsorts of clever stuff up-scales its back to native resolution for the screen at near native image quality, the benefit is...

forums.frontier.co.uk

It looks even worse in movement.

Edit: link to issue tracker https://issues.frontierstore.net/issue-detail/41165

Interesting, didn't know FSR had this issue. Can't say my issue stems from using FSR though since I always play with the native renderer.