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Need some help with settings/Flickering in my ark game. It might be occurring in other games but they are far less noticeable than this one.
A bit of background: I bought this pc prebuilt/drivers installed etc, since I didn’t want to risk messing up the components and I am far from a tech expert or even hobbyist. I initially had some difficulties with playing RDR2 whereby I experienced a lot of stuttering. The pc builders were unable to help, but a fellow RDR2 player sent me a settings profile suited to the 2080ti that reduced both the stuttering and changed the strange appearance of the character’s hair and lighting to normal. The rest of the stutters I got rid of by changing around from windowed borderless to fullscreen (or vice versa, it was a while ago). I feel reluctant to contact them again on this issue, especially if it’s another settings related one.
I tried to upload an example to youtube, but the video quality seems worse on there (Idk if there’s another place to upload it?)
(Tried reuploading but can’t seem to stop the weird blur at beginning of the video. I might try and show a darker area again in another video)
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New Video after reinstall (the island map). Worth noting that motion blur was left on, but this effect happens even when it is off. The water isn’t too visible here, but if you look at the left side before I pause you can roughly see what it usually looks like when it isn’t so bright.
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My Specs are as follows (No OC)
Windows 10 Home
GPU: RTX 2080ti
CPU i9 9900KS @ 4.00 GHz
64 GB RAM
1080p Monitor with 60 Hz Refresh
Drivers appear all up to date
If it’s reliable, my iCUE software says that temps are all consistently below 70 C.
Images of my Control Panel Settings
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Can provide more info if needed. I believe control panel options are all default and ark is optimized for nvidia (though I have found games like RDR2 ran better with a custom profile provided by someone more experienced than I). I may have noticed something similar but to a lesser degree in other games, so it could be some kind of dodgey settings I’ve got. No clue?
I have tried deleting the game folder then validating. When that didn’t work I tried a complete reinstall, still no luck.
Someone said this is probably antialiasing or a low resolution monitor, but as you can see in the videos, anti aliasing is set to epic (and I have tried changing these in the control panel but this only caused lag and no visual improvement) and I have not had quite this issue on my older PC before it started to fail and despite sharing the same monitor. I could see this being said for the other games I play, which have only a small degree of this flickering (usually on sharper objects in older games or again distant/midground trees and grass in newer games) but it seems a bit extreme in this case.
Would appreciate some help! I bought the PC relatively recently before all the stuff about lockdown etc and I am somewhat concerned that I am having these issues and no-where to get it checked up.
I might find some better videos to upload, but need to sort through them first.
A bit of background: I bought this pc prebuilt/drivers installed etc, since I didn’t want to risk messing up the components and I am far from a tech expert or even hobbyist. I initially had some difficulties with playing RDR2 whereby I experienced a lot of stuttering. The pc builders were unable to help, but a fellow RDR2 player sent me a settings profile suited to the 2080ti that reduced both the stuttering and changed the strange appearance of the character’s hair and lighting to normal. The rest of the stutters I got rid of by changing around from windowed borderless to fullscreen (or vice versa, it was a while ago). I feel reluctant to contact them again on this issue, especially if it’s another settings related one.
I tried to upload an example to youtube, but the video quality seems worse on there (Idk if there’s another place to upload it?)
(Tried reuploading but can’t seem to stop the weird blur at beginning of the video. I might try and show a darker area again in another video)
[MEDIA=youtube]Eoafoopzo8U[/MEDIA]
New Video after reinstall (the island map). Worth noting that motion blur was left on, but this effect happens even when it is off. The water isn’t too visible here, but if you look at the left side before I pause you can roughly see what it usually looks like when it isn’t so bright.
[MEDIA=youtube]osNVtpkeA80[/MEDIA]
- I tried this with motion blur off, same thing occur just sharper.
- See the short, white barring on the trees when I turn? That’s new to the reinstall. It’s more obvious with blur on but shouldn’t really be happening either way.
- Basically mid ground and background foliage (grass and dense trees) have strange flickering lighting. The first video is of Valgeuro but it happens on all maps. Water reflections look strange and a bit like TV Video interference to me or that the texture is overlapping except when I look at the tiny section closest to me. I know reflections are expected, but this looks static-y.
My Specs are as follows (No OC)
Windows 10 Home
GPU: RTX 2080ti
CPU i9 9900KS @ 4.00 GHz
64 GB RAM
1080p Monitor with 60 Hz Refresh
Drivers appear all up to date
If it’s reliable, my iCUE software says that temps are all consistently below 70 C.
Images of my Control Panel Settings
[URL unfurl="true"]https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/625323971524689932/702902857577267310/unknown.png?width=1083&height=609[/URL]
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[URL unfurl="true"]https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/625323971524689932/702903021171900496/unknown.png?width=1083&height=609[/URL]
Can provide more info if needed. I believe control panel options are all default and ark is optimized for nvidia (though I have found games like RDR2 ran better with a custom profile provided by someone more experienced than I). I may have noticed something similar but to a lesser degree in other games, so it could be some kind of dodgey settings I’ve got. No clue?
I have tried deleting the game folder then validating. When that didn’t work I tried a complete reinstall, still no luck.
Someone said this is probably antialiasing or a low resolution monitor, but as you can see in the videos, anti aliasing is set to epic (and I have tried changing these in the control panel but this only caused lag and no visual improvement) and I have not had quite this issue on my older PC before it started to fail and despite sharing the same monitor. I could see this being said for the other games I play, which have only a small degree of this flickering (usually on sharper objects in older games or again distant/midground trees and grass in newer games) but it seems a bit extreme in this case.
Would appreciate some help! I bought the PC relatively recently before all the stuff about lockdown etc and I am somewhat concerned that I am having these issues and no-where to get it checked up.
I might find some better videos to upload, but need to sort through them first.
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