Black shadows bug:
Can anyone please suggest a fix for this?
Tracks load in fine and look great, but if I Alt Tab out of the game for any reason, when I next return to the game any overhead shadows have become completely black - shadows of overhead gantries, bridges, cockpit while undercover of the garage, all are solid black.
I've tried changing settings in game and on my graphics card software, but no luck so far. Any help would be appreciated.
(Sapphire HD7950, 8gb, i7 4660k Win7 64)
I had a similar issue a few months ago -
http://www.racedepartment.com/forum/threads/graphics-corruption-at-certain-tracks.75861/
I resolved it by NOT using the +fullproc command.
I have since upgraded my CPU and started using Windows 8.1. With the 1.15 update and the command being in place by default, I have just had the same shadows flickering at Montreal. I returned to the garage, and on my next outing, I got this:
The contents of the car's LCD screen either disappeared or became garbled. Moreover, the on-screen display (position, damage, etc) went totally wonky, I had the letters and graphics literally flying all over the entire screen, it looked as if a gust of wind had blown them all over the place - I wish you could see that in the screen, but for some reason the F12 screenshot does not capture the on-screen menus. I have now manually set the CPU affinity to 2 cores (previously I had all four ticked) and am going to continue testing.
DX: DirectX 9.0c (4.09.00.0904)
CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-3570 CPU @ 3.40GHz @ 3,50 GHz
QPC: 3453126 tps
SRAM: 0 MB
OS: Windows Build 9200
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650 Ti
VRAM: 4036 MB
DRIVER: 9.18.0013.3750
EDIT. No. It does not work. With the affinity set to only one core the sim runs OK with no issues, and performance-wise it is acceptable, but the force feedback response from my wheel (Fanatec Porsche GT3) gets spongy and inconsistent, so driving like that is out of the question. Besides, we're not in 2004 anymore. Starting the sim with -fullproc on one core and then adding one more core in the Task Manager ends up like this:
It's not very clear in the pic, but the selected area in reality is one tangled, flickering mess of disaster. Plus there are other flickering distasters along the whole track. I have Shadows set to High (from Max) and do not intend to go any lower.
The current state of affairs renders GSCE unusable at the moment, which does not make me a blissful individual, which I will hereby illustrate with an example:
Heeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeelp..................................