[RESOLVED] P3D v4 Black Flickering

[Brit128]

Hello

So I'm doing a flight from Heathrow to San Francisco and at the moment I'm over Greenland with overcast cloud.

I've noticed that sometimes the sim flickers on and off. Comes and goes it seems.

PC is i5 8600k @4.9GHZ, 1080, 16gb RAM

Any idea why this happens?

Thanks

[Brad Shiver]

To help us narrow down the cause of this issue, can you please run through the general debugging steps and post your results here? You can find them here: http://www.prepar3d.com/forum/viewtopic ... 2&t=123246

-Brad

[Brit128]

I have P3D v4.1

If I update to .2 do I have re install every addon?

[Brady Butler]

Hello,

We've had a few users report the black flickering issue and they have found some work-arounds. Please see these posts and let us know if they fix your issue:

https://www.prepar3d.com/forum/viewtopi ... flickering
https://www.prepar3d.com/forum/viewtopi ... flickering

Regards,
Brady

[Brit128]

Will take a look, thanks

But too answer my other question, Would I need to reinstall all my add ons if i updated to v4.2

[Brady Butler]

Hello Brit128,

It depends on how the developers chose to integrate their add-on with Prepar3D. The best way to know for sure is to contact or search the forums of the developers for your specific add-ons with this question. Some may need to be reinstalled, some may not.

Regards,
Brady

[Brit128]

I've enabled v sync and triple buffering and has seemed to fix the issue. (touch wood)

[umelec]

Hi Brit128
As stated in the other thread concerning flickering: Switching on Vsynch reduces fps significantly. Each fps reduction reduces or stopps flickering. There must be another reason. Can you confirm, that Vsynch "on" reduces fps down to about 10 as it does on my place?
Best regards
Urs

[Brit128]

I didn't notice much difference, maybe 5 fps to 8fps less. My P3D settings are not on max settings.

It also reduced my GPU load so the card runs cooler now.