Shadow flickering but not quite

[But_It_Was_Me]

So i upgraded my graphic card to RTX 2070 and went wild with graphic preferences. However i notice some shadow lines dancin when i rotate camera. I tried change shadow quality, SSAO, texture quality, but none of that seems to cause that flickering.
Any suggestion what that could be?

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1961634386

Reinstalling drivers didnt work. But i notice that this shimerring occure in room that comes after Birkin fight. In other areas this shimerring is notisable only on leon clothing. Like this clothing have multiple bumps and every bump is casting shadow.

[Thermal Lance]

Did you uninstall and reinstall your drivers?

[But_It_Was_Me]

i didnt reinstall them, just launched nvidia experience and they already were installed. Can as well try that option
P.S. still cant find a way to attach a screenshot

[Just Aaron]

Looks to me like a problem with anti aliasing. Have you tried switching it to TAA or FXAA+TAA? I`d give that a try.

[Bansheebutt]

Are you on Interlaced mode? Because your whole game looks kind of weird.

[But_It_Was_Me]

Originally posted by Bansheebot:

Are you on Interlaced mode? Because your whole game looks kind of weird.

No

[Jeff Stephen]

Originally posted by Just Aaron:

Looks to me like a problem with anti aliasing. Have you tried switching it to TAA or FXAA+TAA? I`d give that a try.

This sounds about right. All AA solutions other than TAA in this game add a shimmering effect.

[linas.warrior]

I also have weird flickering (if set to TAA) or massive jaggies (if set to FXAA or SMAA). This happens in ALL games on several different computers. Any idea what could be the cause of this?

[Just Aaron]

Originally posted by linas.warrior:

I also have weird flickering (if set to TAA) or massive jaggies (if set to FXAA or SMAA). This happens in ALL games on several different computers. Any idea what could be the cause of this?

You said it occurs in all games and on different computers. Could the problem be your monitor or tv?

[linas.warrior]

No, I don't think so. This is what I tried:

- Different combos of graphical settings in each specific game
- Various settings in NVCP
- Reinstalling GPU drivers (using DDU), various versions of drivers, both old and new
- Doing a clean reinstall of Windows OS (tried Windows 10 and Windows 7)
- Various settings in Windows, such as changing power settings, disabling game mode, enabling/disabling page file etc.
- Many different video cards (RTX 2080 Ti, GTX 1080 Ti, GTX 1070, GTX 980, GTX 780, GTX 760)
- Completely changed every single part of my main gaming PC (new Motherboard, CPU, RAM, PSU, SSD, even got a new case and new coolers)
- Laptop (tested my games on both 860m and integrated GPU)
- Different monitors (1080p and 1440p) and TVs (1080p and 4K), also various settings on them
- Also tested the games on my secondary PC (with an old AMD CPU and GTX 980)
- High quality 8K certified DP cable, new and different HDMI cable
- High quality extension cord with a surge protection
- Different electrical outlets in different rooms
- Updating BIOS
- Changing various settings in BIOS such as disabling c-states etc.
- Disabling Steam, Origin and other app overlays (I heard it could cause similar issues)
- GPU overclocking and downclocking
- Disabling all the unnecessary processes, such as antivirus, afterburner, bluetooth etc (I keep my main gaming PC clean, just Steam, few apps and games).

[But_It_Was_Me]

Originally posted by Just Aaron:

Looks to me like a problem with anti aliasing. Have you tried switching it to TAA or FXAA+TAA? I`d give that a try.

I always play without any anti aliasing. And this flickering can be seen with any anti aliasing option.
And i repeat - i noticed this only in one room so far.

[Just Aaron]

Originally posted by But It Was Me:

Originally posted by Just Aaron:

Looks to me like a problem with anti aliasing. Have you tried switching it to TAA or FXAA+TAA? I`d give that a try.

I always play without any anti aliasing. And this flickering can be seen with any anti aliasing option.
And i repeat - i noticed this only in one room so far.

Well then. That explains it. Switch to TAA or FXAA+TAA if you ever want to fix Leons hair or get rid of that screen door effect. It`ll fix the glittering zombie beards as well. It`ll also get rid of the weird lines on everything. I`m kind of surprised people don`t complain more about the awful anti-aliasing in this game. I`ve never seen one with worse aliasing issues. Even if you do use TAA it blurs out all the details so it still might not be worth using.

[But_It_Was_Me]

Originally posted by Just Aaron:

Originally posted by But It Was Me:

I always play without any anti aliasing. And this flickering can be seen with any anti aliasing option.
And i repeat - i noticed this only in one room so far.

Well then. That explains it. Switch to TAA or FXAA+TAA if you ever want to fix Leons hair or get rid of that screen door effect. It`ll fix the glittering zombie beards as well. It`ll also get rid of the weird lines on everything. I`m kind of surprised people don`t complain more about the awful anti-aliasing in this game. I`ve never seen one with worse aliasing issues. Even if you do use TAA it blurs out all the details so it still might not be worth using.

That option only smoothes that flickering, but i guess this can't be fixed entirely. And yeah, those AA options is wierd. MSAA seems like doesnt do anything

[Illusion of Progress]

MSAA, with Supersampling Transparency AA to get what MSAA doesn't, has been traditionally what will get the best image quality in games.

Unfortunately, it doesn't work too often in many modern games, like those using deferred rendering, for example. All of these more recent AA solutions, like FXAA and the like, are awful in my opinion. I've even seen some games go the route of allowing a higher internal rendering resolution (and this game is one of them), something that was basically unheard of years ago (it was a thing and people did it, but it was usually not a game setting), in order to deal with the aliasing/shimmering and it never even seems to do much about it anyway.

Luckily, I've had good results with Reshade while using FXAA + TAA in this game. Aliasing is mostly gone, without blurring the heck out of everything to hide it, and there's no real shimmering that jumps out at you. It also fixes the color and keeps things sharp. It does introduce some of it's own quirks but they are minor compared to what it "corrects".