Intense Flickering on distant objects

[spyrounas]

One day after not having played arma for a week, i start the game and i begin to notice that in the distance all things (buildings/trees/everything) are flickering so bad that the game is unplayable and tiring for the eye. The flickering consists of black tiles flashing rapidly in the surfaces of buildings etc. My rig consists of gtx 1070+ i7 6700K. Everything was updated. I tried many things: Installing older drivers as far back as 3 editions and every time using DDU. Reinstalling the game/deleting all files related to arma. Messing with every possible option in arma + nvidia settings. Even changing monitor/monitor cables.The flicker appears with or without using scopes. I have tested it both in vanilla and modded servers This thing is driving me nuts cause it suddenly decided to appear one day. Might be related with arma patches etc. Any help would be appreciated so i can start playing the game again

[SgtNickFury]

Delete the following file arma3.cfg found here c:\documents\arma3\arma3.cfg. Game will make the file again when you start it up.

[Fraali]

Without having a screenshot of the problem, speculation is all I can give. One could be your GPU having too high of a clock, giving artifacts. If it's only happening in arma, I would suggest trying another memory allocator like JEMalloc_bi. It also could be your GPU/CPU overheating, causing artifacts.

[spyrounas]

Thank you both for the answers!
SgtNickFury, i did what you mentioned but it didnt work.
Fraali, how do i change my memory allocator? Also you can go to my profile and check screenshots i uploaded which contain the problem

Originally posted by SgtNickFury:

Delete the following file arma3.cfg found here c:\documents\arma3\arma3.cfg. Game will make the file again when you start it up.

Originally posted by Fraali:

Without having a screenshot of the problem, speculation is all I can give. One could be your GPU having too high of a clock, giving artifacts. If it's only happening in arma, I would suggest trying another memory allocator like JEMalloc_bi. It also could be your GPU/CPU overheating, causing artifacts.

[spyrounas]

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=872126151

Here is a screenshot of my problem, you can find more in my profile public pictures

Originally posted by Fraali:

Without having a screenshot of the problem, speculation is all I can give. One could be your GPU having too high of a clock, giving artifacts. If it's only happening in arma, I would suggest trying another memory allocator like JEMalloc_bi. It also could be your GPU/CPU overheating, causing artifacts.

[SgtNickFury]

funny thing I just started Arma3 and I also have some weird flickering, but mine seems to be across the screen when I move.

[spyrounas]

Originally posted by SgtNickFury:

funny thing I just started Arma3 and I also have some weird flickering, but mine seems to be across the screen when I move.

Oh man! I hope it doesnt get any worse. Mine is so apparent it will make me tear off my eyes after 30 mins of gameplay

[SgtNickFury]

So part of mine was my ATI Radeon settings, which I messed with playing Ghost Recon Wildlands Beta the last few days. So I reset my ATI setting to default. Open Arma3 and changed the following
Bloom to 10
Radial Blur to 10
Rotation Blur to 10
Sharpen Filter to 50
VSync On

Under Lighting
HDR Standard
Dynamic Light Ultra

No everything looks ok again.

[spyrounas]

Originally posted by SgtNickFury:

So part of mine was my ATI Radeon settings, which I messed with playing Ghost Recon Wildlands Beta the last few days. So I reset my ATI setting to default. Open Arma3 and changed the following
Bloom to 10
Radial Blur to 10
Rotation Blur to 10
Sharpen Filter to 50
VSync On

Under Lighting
HDR Standard
Dynamic Light Ultra

No everything looks ok again.

I own an nvidia gtx 1070 card and i have tried every possible combination from in game settings + nvidia settings but nothing seems to work! The card is brand new and i dont have any overheating problems because its stock

[SgtNickFury]

Originally posted by spyrounas:

Originally posted by SgtNickFury:

funny thing I just started Arma3 and I also have some weird flickering, but mine seems to be across the screen when I move.

Oh man! I hope it doesnt get any worse. Mine is so apparent it will make me tear off my eyes after 30 mins of gameplay

Here are my ingame settings
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=874293500
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=874293476

And I suppose this doesn't happen in any other game correct?

[SgtNickFury]

Just thought of something else. Did you reinstall Direct X from here?
C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\SteamApps\common\Arma 3\_CommonRedist\DirectX\Jun2010\
DXSETUP.exe

[spyrounas]

Originally posted by SgtNickFury:

Just thought of something else. Did you reinstall Direct X from here?
C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\SteamApps\common\Arma 3\_CommonRedist\DirectX\Jun2010\
DXSETUP.exe

I just did, but nothing changed unfortunately.. thanks for the suggestions anyway!

[SgtNickFury]

do you have built in graphic on motherboard? If so open Nvidia Control Panel - 3d Settings - gobal - GPU - make sure nvidia gpu is picked for all games

[spyrounas]

Originally posted by SgtNickFury:

do you have built in graphic on motherboard? If so open Nvidia Control Panel - 3d Settings - gobal - GPU - make sure nvidia gpu is picked for all games

Its nvidia gpu picked, no i dont have built in graphics!

[SgtNickFury]

Here is what i posted when I used an Nvidia card, to fix game issues and fps.

FIRST Uninstall the Geforce Experience as it's a resource hog, and not needed. When you install new Nvidia Driver, do a custom and uncheck the boxes for it along with the Audio if you don't use them.

Right click on desktop and open the Nvidia Control Panel
1.Go to 3d Options and click on Use the advance image settings
2. Click on Manage 3d Settings
3. Click on Global settings. We are going to change the setting here first which means I'm going down the whole list.

Ambient Occlusion: performance
Anisotropic Filtering: Application Controlled
Antialiasing: ON
Antialiasing - FXAA: ON
Antialiasing - Mode: Application Controlled
Antialiasing - Setting Application Controlled
Antialiasing - Transparency: OFF
CUDA - GPUs: ALL
DSR - Factors: OFF
DSR - Smoothness: OFF
Maximum Pre-Rendered Frames: Use the 3D Application Setting
Multi-display/Mixed-GPU Acceleration: Single Display Performance Mode
Power Management Mode: Prefer Maximum Performance
Shader Cache: ON
Texture Filtering: ON
Texture Filtering - Anisotropic Sample Optimization: ON
Texture Filtering - Negative LOD Bias ALLOW
Texture Filtering - Quality: High Performance
Texture Filtering - Trilinear Optimization: ON
Threaded Optimization: AUTO
Triple Buffering: OFF
Vertical Sync: OFF
Virtual Reality Pre-Rendered Frames: Use the 3D application setting

4. Click on Program settings, then check the box (Show only applications on this computer box) Once it refreshes click on the drop down box and pick ARMA3 (arma3.exe) from the list. Next we are going to change some settings here for the game itself.

Ambient Occlusion: performance
Anisotropic Filtering: Application Controlled
Antialiasing - FXAA: Not supported for this application (ghosted out)
Antialiasing: Gamma Correction - ON
Antialiasing Mode: Application Controlled
Antialiasing - Setting Application Controlled
CUDA - GPUs: Use global settings all
Maximum Pre-Rendered Frames: 1
Multi-display/Mixed-GPU Acceleration: Single Display Performance Mode
Power Management Mode: Prefer Maximum Performance
Shadier Cache: Use global settings (on)
Texture Filtering: ON
Texture Filtering - Anisotropic Sample Optimization: ON
Texture Filtering - Negative LOD Bias ALLOW
Texture Filtering - Quality: High Performance
Texture Filtering - Trilinear Optimization: ON
Threaded Optimization: ON
Triple Buffering: OFF
Vertical Sync: OFF
Virtual Reality Pre-Rendered Frames: 4

[Fraali]

To change your memory allocator, you can either find it under "Parameters - All Parameters" in the launcher, or add -malloc=JEMalloc_bi to your launch parameters.