KNOWN ISSUE: Artifacts Relating to Video Quality

We are aware of and looking in to an issue in which visual artefacts are displayed depending on ‘Video’ quality.

Existing reports may be merged here, to help us keep track of the issues being reported.

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Issue Description:
“Artifacting” on Video/Light Settings higher than “Low”

Crash Report (If Applicable):
[No Crash]

Error Displayed (If Applicable):
[No Error]

Steps to Reproduce:

  1. Be me:
    OS: Windows 10 (64 bit)
    Processor: Ryzen 5 3600
    Memory: 16 GB RAM
    Graphics:AMD Radeon RX 5600 XT

  2. Load up any map, any character with a weapon that is good and shiny.

3: Set Light detail in Video settings to anything but Low.

  1. See “Artifacts” around weapon and some around arms. They move with your vision, like they are attached to your visor/eyeballs.

~I’ve tried with everything set to Low but the Light. No dice. Turned Off all my “Via Video Card” settings. Nope. Turned them all On or to “Optimized for Driver”. Still No. Driver is updated.

Mission Name (If Applicable):
[N/A]

Platform:
Steam/PC

Player ID:
Steam:ok_gambit

Approx. Time of Issue & Timezone:
[N/A]

Reproduction Rate:
100% Constant

Upload Supporting Evidence:

Upload Console Log:
console-2022-11-21-18.53.41-eb9a9f35-16e3-49e2-820f-38f8cbdd2599.log (87.0 KB)

Upload darktide_launcher.log:
darktide_launcher.log (449.4 KB)

Looking in to it. Thank you!

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Same thing on a 6800 XT

PC Specification
CPU : 5800x3D
GPU : 57000XT Powercolor Red Devil
RAM : 32GB 3600MHz

Issue Description:
When I have Light Quality set on anything above Low I get black square artifacts around weapons, also the outline for weapons are pixellated regardless of sharpness settings.

Crash Report (If Applicable):
No Crash

Error Displayed (If Applicable):
No Error

Steps to Reproduce:

  1. Change Light Quality to anything above Low

Mission Name (If Applicable):
Not Applicable

Platform:
Steam

Player ID:
SteamID 76561198990492612

Approx. Time of Issue & Timezone:
All the time, in open beta and in steam release versions

Reproduction Rate:
100%

Upload Supporting Evidence:

Upload Console Log:
console-2022-11-30-18.05.39-241b0991-601d-4245-9ae4-34a6843afd55.log (209.1 KB)

Upload darktide_launcher.log:
darktide_launcher.log (186.9 KB)

Hello guys, I need your help, I have a problem with my game, it’s running perfectly fine at ultra quality but I have a problem with the “lightning quality” settings, when it’s on a setting different than “low” I get weird artifacts like little square around zones that are lightened, it’s really annoying and make the game ugly

I play on Steam and my config is an i5 13600K an amd 6900XT.

Reproduction Rate:
Constant (100%)

Upload Supporting Evidence:


It’s the same as these issues :

https://forums.fatsharkgames.com/t/artifacting-on-video-light-settings-higher-than-low/58125
https://forums.fatsharkgames.com/t/visual-artifacts-distortion-from-interaction-between-dynamic-shadows-and-player-viewmodels/56354

It’s in our database! Thank you. :slight_smile:

Visual Artifacts/Distortion from interaction between dynamic shadows and player viewmodels

Steps to Reproduce:

  1. Enter first-person mode
  2. Move player viewmodel around
  3. View visual artifacting

Platform:
Steam

Player ID:

Approx. Time of Issue & Timezone:
[11/17/2022, 19:00] [CST]–still issue at time of posting

Reproduction Rate:
Constant (100%)

Upload Supporting Evidence:
Around the knife hand

Distortion appears when viewmodel is over shadow near chest


Distortion disappears when viewmodel is away from shadow

Upload Console Log:
console-2022-11-18-06.01.30-71ea2a09-1349-4f10-bdae-e9f3282ba36a.log (549.1 KB)

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This issue does not occur with baked lighting/shadows

Thank you for your report, could you tell me what CPU & GPU your PC has?

I believe I have the same issue:

RX 580 and AMD Ryzen 5 2600 6-core. I first noticed this when using the flashlight on my lasgun and have been unable to un-see it since.

I have a Ryzen 7 3700x and a RX 6600 Xt

I get the same thing. Was surprised to see it was something not many are struggling with. It’s quite distracting. Was worse during the CBT for me, but still not looking good. Seems to be our hardware is all relatively similar, (AM4 CPU?). Hopefully a fix can be found!

Ryzen 7 2700
RX 580

Yeah all of us have amd GPUs and CPUs

Same problem

Ryzen 5 3600
rx5700xt

After some more testing, it seems that turning the lighting setting to “Low” removes the distortion, but my guess would be that this is because it also removes all shadows.

Some more screenshots to illustrate:

Lighting set to “Extreme”

Lighting set to “Low”

same pb with a amd system :

gpu: 6900xt
cpu: 5600x.

have to put lighting on low

Similar issue, AMD too

GPU: 6800XT
CPU: 3700X