Directional Occlusion grid bug

[Agony]

I know this is an old issue but does anyone have any news about a potential fix? Have the devs ever said anything about it?

[Salamand3r-]

Sadly no, it's still there and still reasonably annoying, and I haven't seen any community fixes.

Sorry.

[Agony]

I just can't believe a great game like this to have that kind of bug in its engine. Because i think it is clearly a dithering problem of the game engine.

[Salamand3r-]

Originally posted by Agony:

I just can't believe a great game like this to have that kind of bug in its engine. Because i think it is clearly a dithering problem of the game engine.

It only happens on Vulkan, which was a post-launch addition. The post-launch support has been abyssmal aside from the Vulkan and 6.66 patches, so I'm frankly not surprised they haven't bothered. Disappointed, but not surprised.

Especially since most people don't even seem to notice it.

[Agony]

I see. Well it seems that we must live with it i guess. FYI, besides Vulkan, it also happens on OpenGL that i am using.

[Salamand3r-]

Originally posted by Agony:

I see. Well it seems that we must live with it i guess. FYI, besides Vulkan, it also happens on OpenGL that i am using.

Hmmmm. I hadn't seen it on OpenGL before. Maybe try switching to Vulkan?

[Agony]

Same results on Vulkan unfortunately.

[Salamand3r-]

Originally posted by Agony:

Same results on Vulkan unfortunately.

Interesting. What GPU and driver version?

[♡バニラ♡]

Only thing you can do is render at twice the resolution, then downscale. Or you can just turn it off.

[Agony]

My specs are: Core i5 4690k 4GHz
GIGABYTE Z97-X Gaming 3 motherboard
16GB DDR3 Corsair Vengeance RAM at 2400Mhz
ASUS STRIX GTX 960 4GB OC at 417.35 GeForce drivers
EVGA SuperNova 850W Platinum.
I play with everything on Ultra at 1080p 60Hz awith no stuttering at all even in the most intense scenes. The only problem is the Directional Occlusion grid.

[Salamand3r-]

Originally posted by Agony:

My specs are: Core i5 4690k 4GHz
GIGABYTE Z97-X Gaming 3 motherboard
16GB DDR3 Corsair Vengeance RAM at 2400Mhz
ASUS STRIX GTX 960 4GB OC at 417.35 GeForce drivers
EVGA SuperNova 850W Platinum.

Drivers up to date?

[Agony]

Yes.

[Salamand3r-]

Originally posted by Agony:

Yes.

That is super weird.

I don't know if I have a 960 still, but I have a couple other Maxwell cards, I'll see if I can replicate it.

I've just never seen it on OpenGL, which is annoying me, I don't like new problems :D

Edit: Can you screenshot it for me, so I know we're on the same problem?

[Galdelico]

Necrobump (apologies for that!) just because I'm playing the game only now, and I noticed this bug too. Tbh, I didn't until I reached the Argent Energy Tower - in retrospect, I can now spot it around in previous maps as well - but I confirm what Agony said: the grid is there both in Vulkan and OpenGL video modes.
It completely goes away if I turn Directional Occlusion off (which I don't like, as it seems to make the whole scene a bit too flat for my tastes) or if I run the game in 4K downsampled (not a chance my laptop can handle that at an acceptable frame rate, though).

All that said, it doesn't seem to be a game-breaking deal, as it's not everywhere all the time, but it looks like it affects only specific parts of the scenery. There are instances where the grid covers the glass windows of a building, for example, but not its walls. Nonetheless, it can be quite aggressive.

Guess it's never been fixed (and there haven't been other workarounds) since last January, isn't it?

[eyeofsplendor]

Rtx3070 1440p the bug is still here!
Only way to turn it off