Really terrible performance - what happened ?

rennarda

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Firstly, I think this was a one-off. But I'm curious what happened last night:

I played a bit pf Planet Coaster after downloading it - it was great btw! Then I slept my machine for a while, and when I came back to it I launched ED with all the usual settings.

Straight away I could tell something wasn't right. The posterisation was even worse than normal ( I could see the individual shades of the smoke when the ship gets too hot, and see them popping in and out as they faded away).

I docked, and when the missions board was up the judder was terrible. The board was almost unusable.

I then flew down to a planet surface, and saw really strange visual tearing, similar to when your vsync isn't turned on on a conventional monitor.

In the end I just decided to give up - it was making me feel ill, and was unplayable.

I'm sure a reboot would have fixed it, but I'm really curious what happened ? It's almost as if ½ of the graphics cores on my card just never woke up again.
 

bitstorm

bitstorm
rennarda said:
I'm really curious what happened ? It's almost as if ½ of the graphics cores on my card just never woke up again.
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NVidia happened...

Like ctrl + f is snowing really low fps?

You upgraded to NVidia drivers 375.86 and you have a 1080?

If so drivers are broke, I had to roll back the the previous driver version, problem solved.
 
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rennarda

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That could be it - although I'm running a 970 not a 1080 - but it's possible a driver update nerfed something.

I'm really getting sick of the posterisation though - things used to look beautiful back in the pre 0.8 runtime days, but now the galaxy skybox looks comically bad ½ of the time, and stars have terrible halos. :-(
 

dogbite

dogbite
rennarda said:
That could be it - although I'm running a 970 not a 1080 - but it's possible a driver update nerfed something.

I'm really getting sick of the posterisation though - things used to look beautiful back in the pre 0.8 runtime days, but now the galaxy skybox looks comically bad ½ of the time, and stars have terrible halos. :-(
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Color issues finally being looked into by FDevs as reported here by CMDR Vanguard from Frontier support https://forums.oculus.com/community/discussion/45093/1-10-broke-elite-dangerous
 

Cmdr Spencer

Cmdr Spencer
rennarda said:
That could be it - although I'm running a 970 not a 1080 - but it's possible a driver update nerfed something.

I'm really getting sick of the posterisation though - things used to look beautiful back in the pre 0.8 runtime days, but now the galaxy skybox looks comically bad ½ of the time, and stars have terrible halos. :-(
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definitely an Nvidia driver issue - i rolled back in device manager and back to zero judder. I'm on a 970 with dk2
 

Badben

Badben
I have the newest drivers and I don't see any problems, I have a 970. I have to say I'm incredibly impressed by the quality I'm getting, I have a i5 2500k and the oculus home is always telling me my PC isn't up to it's min requirements, but I have ED on VR High, and it's smooth, even on planets.
 

Exigeous

Exigeous
rennarda said:
That could be it - although I'm running a 970 not a 1080 - but it's possible a driver update nerfed something.

I'm really getting sick of the posterisation though - things used to look beautiful back in the pre 0.8 runtime days, but now the galaxy skybox looks comically bad ½ of the time, and stars have terrible halos. :-(
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Forgive me if I've missed the details in a previous post but can you share your full system details? What graphics level are you using, are you running with one of the presets or have you customized on a per-setting basis? I run an i7 4770k 3.5G, 32GB DDR3, GTX 1080 with my Rift CV1. I don't use a preset but rather customized each setting based on research of each. Are you using ASW and if so which mode? It seems you're saying the issues just started but also seem to note you've seen them before, have things gotten worse over time? Are you manually updating drivers or have it done automatically? Personally I never auto-update drivers as I'm very much a fan of "if it an't broke don't fix it". Can I assume Windows 10? Anything notable running in the background or while you're playing Elite?

I think you're right that a reboot would have cleared things up for you but I'm also pretty stubborn about that myself. Fortunately Windows reboots rather quickly these days, gone are the multi-minute startups of Windows past.

Hopefully we can help get things better for you once again, Elite can once again look glorious and VR can continue to be the amazing experience it is.

~X
 

Raptoyd

Raptoyd
I have the new drivers all week on my 1080 founders have not seen any of these issues either. Is it possible it was caused by planet rollercoaster and maybe you did need a restart to straighten whatever it was out?
 
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