Camera flicker on the Rift

Padaxes

Padaxes
I've come back to Elite after a break and there is a new very distracting issue.

I get Camera flicker, it seems most noticeable coming out of super cruise by a sun, but is not limited to this situation. I get a one or two frame glimpse of the sun , or sometimes what appears to be part of my ship. For example if the sun is behind me it will flash up momentarily in front of me. The glitches vary in severity, sometimes happening repeatedly, other times just occasionally. I added a third sensor but that had no effect on the issue. I tried turning my settings down to "VR Low" and the game actually ran worse lol

Anyone else seen this ? Any fixes?
 

Karl Agathon

K
Is this a tracking issue? I had some issues yesterday where it would seem the HMD would lose tracking for a second, so movement appeared jerky. I will rerun my sensor setup to see if that fixes it.

Also, I had "flickering" issues with my previous 7970 in non-VR situations, not as severe as a sun behind appearing in front, but the start dust for example would have a completely different direction for a few, noticeable, frames.

What GPU are you running?
 

Padaxes

Padaxes
I'm running a GTX 970. The flickering is a new thing. it never occurred during my last stint playing this game so something has introduced it, I also notice I get the loading icon more often coming out of supercruise.

I've tried adding an extra sensor to ensure my tracking was rock solid and that made no difference. It's very annoying! It could be that my PC just isn't good enough and something has changed that highlights this.
 

Hoboner

Hoboner
Was just about to make a new post regarding the same issue, glad I stumbled on yours as I'm now having the exact same issue.

I'm also on a 970 (evga gtx 970 ftw+ w/ i5 4690k) and had no issues with this until I played the 2.4 beta oddly enough. I doubt it has anything to do with that, but that's the only thing I can seem to tie it to. I've messed with my settings repeatedly and can't seem to eliminate it. I also thought it could be a tracking issue, so I reset everything in oculus and steamvr just to be extra sure, and it still happens. I also thought maybe it was because I was streaming when it had been happening to me as well, but it's happening no matter what. I've closed everything except what's needed to run elite in vr and no change.

Here's a screenshot and clip of what it looks like on my end (I'm sure it's the same for Padaxes as well)
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[video]https://clips.twitch.tv/JollyZanySwanCorgiDerp[/video]

Hopefully someone has an idea of what causes this. I was going to file a bug report but wasn't sure if it was something minor that I may have changed accidentally. Plus side is the beta was not doing this at all, so I guess even if we can't figure out what's causing it, we should be all good when 2.4 launches...just gets super annoying seeing the flickering all the time.
 
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han

han
I think I have had this issue since I bought the game in 2015. Since then I have gone from windows 7 to 10, changed my 970 to 1070, changed hdd to ssd, gone from 8gb ram to 16, gone from dk2 to cv1 and had a fresh install of windows, but still have the issue. If remember correctly it went away in 2.0 but came back in 2.2 for me. It also happened in the 2.4 beta. Never seen anybody else have the problem so glad I'm not the only one.
Made a vid of it
[video=youtube;RsTBJcR7Ut0]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RsTBJcR7Ut0[/video]
 
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