Planetary Annihilation Screen Flickering

Hi

The first time I played Planetary Annihilation I didn't notice any problems with the screen during game play.

But after today's update, I have noticed the screen flickering.

Another thing is I only see a few online players in the game hosting room.

Any one else having problems?
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This is a known issue that rears its head every few patches or so. Sometimes it gets fixed, sometimes it comes back.

It's an issue with HDR. Try turning off HDR and that should fix the issue until Uber fixes the bug.

With the latest patch my screen now flickers, the previous patch caused the same thing, but it fixed itself somehow last time. this time however (as of today 8/9/14) i cant seem to get it to stop flickering, i've updated my drivers, verified the files, turned HDR off and its still flickering. please help.

Finally an opportunity.

Please logs, dumps, and dxdiag.txt?

i figured it out, oddly enough putting the game in windowed mode fixed the flickering

I didn't see how old this thread was until now

same problem here ... still have black flashing on fullscreen ...

This patch also makes my game flicker. Window mode is now the fix for now....

@Sparcks Welcome to the forum

To all people who are having this issue please upload your log, dump, and dxdiag.txt so we can figure out what the problem is.

For windows only.

Log is located at:
C:\Users\'\AppData\Local\Uber Entertainment\Planetary Annihilation\log

Dump is located at:
C:\Users\''\AppData\Local\Temp

Dxdiag.txt instructors are in my signature

For the other systems I do not know where the stuff is located.

That is not a solution but a workaround for the problem we need to collect data so Uber can solve it.

here is my log from today, turned off HDR and I still dont know what is wrong, any help is appreciated. I have never downloaded any mods
[15:20:56.063] INFO Log file C:\Users\JT\AppData\Local\Uber Entertainment\Planetary Annihilation\log\PA-15-20-56.063.txt opened
[15:20:56.063] INFO delete C:\Users\JT\AppData\Local\Uber Entertainment\Planetary Annihilation\log\PA-14-31-12.016.txt
[15:20:56.063] INFO delete C:\Users\JT\AppData\Local\Uber Entertainment\Planetary Annihilation\log\PA-14-30-36.000.txt
[15:20:56.438] INFO Looks like we are running via Steam
[15:20:56.453] INFO Loading mod : server_browser_show_cheat_servers
[15:20:56.453] ERROR Error reading C:\Users\JT\AppData\Local\Uber Entertainment\Planetary Annihilation\mods: 3
[15:20:56.453] INFO LoadedLocalModCollection::loadLocalModCollection: Failed listDir call for "C:\Users\JT\AppData\Local\Uber Entertainment\Planetary Annihilation\mods"; no mods will be loaded from this path
[15:20:56.453] WARN LoadedLocalModCollection::loadLocalModCollection: Could not open C:\Users\JT\AppData\Local\Uber Entertainment\Planetary Annihilation\mods\mods.json file; mods will not be mounted
[15:20:56.453] INFO Client loaded 1 mods, mounted 0
[15:20:56.453] INFO Loading mod : cheat_allow_change_control
[15:20:56.453] INFO Loading mod : cheat_allow_change_vision
[15:20:56.453] INFO Loading mod : cheat_allow_create_unit
[15:20:56.453] INFO Loading mod : cheat_allow_mod_data_updates
[15:20:56.453] ERROR Error reading C:\Users\JT\AppData\Local\Uber Entertainment\Planetary Annihilation\server_mods: 3
[15:20:56.453] INFO LoadedLocalModCollection::loadLocalModCollection: Failed listDir call for "C:\Users\JT\AppData\Local\Uber Entertainment\Planetary Annihilation\server_mods"; no mods will be loaded from this path
[15:20:56.453] WARN LoadedLocalModCollection::loadLocalModCollection: Could not open C:\Users\JT\AppData\Local\Uber Entertainment\Planetary Annihilation\server_mods\mods.json file; mods will not be mounted
[15:20:56.453] INFO Starting async parallel for driver with 6 threads
[15:21:01.516] INFO Successfully created context with configuration 1/9: v4.4 (core)
[15:21:01.516] INFO HAL initializing...
[15:21:01.516] INFO OpenGL Vendor: NVIDIA Corporation
[15:21:01.516] INFO OpenGL Renderer: GeForce GT 750M/PCIe/SSE2
[15:21:01.516] INFO OpenGL Version: 4.4.0
[15:21:01.516] INFO OpenGL Shader Language Version: 4.40 NVIDIA via Cg compiler
[15:21:01.516] INFO Vendor flag set to NVidia
[15:21:01.516] INFO Supported rasterizer capabilities: Gamma correct pipeline, Ranged mapping, Advanced instancing, Advanced shaders, Compute shaders, Persistent buffer mapping
[15:21:01.516] INFO Unsupported rasterizer capabilities:
[15:21:01.516] INFO Buffer textures enabled.
[15:21:01.516] INFO initial size 1536x864
[15:21:01.578] INFO Loading effects from file /shaders/post.json
[15:21:03.500] INFO Loading effects from file /shaders/content.json
[15:21:07.844] INFO Loading effects from file /shaders/impostors.json
[15:21:07.953] INFO Loading effects from file /shaders/misc.json
[15:21:08.578] INFO Loading effects from file /shaders/particle.json
[15:21:14.750] INFO Loading effects from file /shaders/scene.json
[15:21:16.953] INFO Loading effects from file /shaders/vtex.json
[15:21:16.156] INFO Coherent content root: "coui://ui/"
[15:21:16.156] INFO Coherent host dir: "C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Steam\\steamapps\\common\\Planetary Annihilation\\bin_x64\\host"
[15:21:16.156] INFO Coherent local store: "C:\\Users\\JT\\AppData\\Local\\Uber Entertainment\\Planetary Annihilation\\localstore"
[15:21:17.219] INFO ClientInterface constructed
[15:21:17.438] INFO {{FMOD}} fmod buffer size 5
[15:21:17.453] INFO ClientInterface constructed
[15:21:20.375] INFO TwitchTV::flushStreamingEvents Twitch state changed
[15:21:20.375] ERROR twitch tried to send message and no UI.
[15:21:20.406] INFO client::ClientGame::SystemReady
[15:21:20.406] INFO CoherentUI::loadUrl ForceSoftwareRendering : 0
[15:21:20.406] INFO CoherentUI::loadUrl ForceSoftwareRendering : 0
[15:21:20.406] INFO CoherentUI::loadUrl ForceSoftwareRendering : 0
[15:21:20.406] INFO CoherentUI::loadUrl ForceSoftwareRendering : 0
[15:21:30.172] INFO CoherentUI::loadUrl ForceSoftwareRendering : 0
[15:21:30.172] INFO CoherentUI::loadUrl ForceSoftwareRendering : 0
[15:21:30.203] INFO CoherentUI::loadUrl ForceSoftwareRendering : 0
[15:21:34.234] INFO client::ClientGame::resetGameState
[15:21:34.234] INFO Mouse constraint cleared.
[15:21:34.234] INFO ClientInterface constructed
[15:21:34.234] INFO ClientInterface constructed
[15:21:36.172] INFO Setting option graphics to 'medium'
[15:21:36.172] INFO Setting option graphics.vte to 'medium'
[15:21:36.172] INFO Setting option graphics.headlights to 'medium'
[15:21:36.172] INFO Setting option graphics.shadows to 'medium'
[15:21:36.172] INFO Setting option graphics.ao to 'on'
[15:21:36.172] INFO Setting option graphics.hdr to 'on'
[15:21:36.172] INFO Setting option graphics.aa to 'off'
[15:21:36.172] INFO Setting option graphics.display_mode to 'fullscreen'
[15:21:36.172] INFO Setting camera mouse pan speed to 1x
[15:21:36.172] INFO Setting camera key pan speed to 1x
[15:21:36.172] INFO Setting camera zoom speed to 4x
[15:21:36.172] INFO Setting camera friction to 2.5x
[15:21:36.172] INFO Setting camera edge scroll to off (no mouselock)
[15:21:36.172] INFO Setting planet pole lock to off
[15:21:42.469] INFO client::ClientGame::setMusic /Music/Main_Menu_Music
[15:21:56.688] INFO client::ClientGame::resetGameState
[15:21:56.688] INFO Mouse constraint cleared.
[15:21:56.688] INFO ClientInterface constructed
[15:21:57.719] INFO Connect to ec2-54-205-76-125.compute-1.amazonaws.com:9000 worked
[15:21:57.031] INFO client::ClientGame::connection_LoginAccepted
[15:21:58.875] ERROR Failed loading panel 2, path coui://ui/main/game/new_game/new_game.html: net::ERR_ABORTED
[15:22:01.594] INFO CoherentUI::loadUrl ForceSoftwareRendering : 0
[15:22:02.875] INFO Starting background thread pool with 6 threads
[15:22:03.656] INFO ClientInterface constructed
[15:22:06.672] INFO client::ClientGame::connection_GameConfig
[15:22:06.672] INFO client::ClientGame::connection_SimCreated
[15:22:06.672] INFO client::ClientGame::connection_SimTerminated
[15:22:06.672] INFO client::ClientGame::connection_Disconnected
[15:22:09.797] INFO client::ClientGame::resetGameState
[15:22:09.797] INFO Mouse constraint cleared.
[15:22:09.797] INFO ClientInterface constructed
[15:22:09.797] INFO ClientInterface constructed
[15:22:16.328] INFO TwitchTV::flushStreamingEvents Twitch state changed
[15:22:37.547] INFO Setting option graphics to 'medium'
[15:22:37.547] INFO Setting option graphics.vte to 'medium'
[15:22:37.547] INFO Setting option graphics.headlights to 'medium'
[15:22:37.547] INFO Setting option graphics.shadows to 'medium'
[15:22:37.547] INFO Setting option graphics.ao to 'on'
[15:22:37.547] INFO Setting option graphics.hdr to 'on'
[15:22:37.547] INFO Setting option graphics.aa to 'off'
[15:22:37.547] INFO Setting option graphics.display_mode to 'fullscreen'
[15:22:37.563] INFO Setting camera mouse pan speed to 1x
[15:22:37.563] INFO Setting camera key pan speed to 1x
[15:22:37.563] INFO Setting camera zoom speed to 4x
[15:22:37.563] INFO Setting camera friction to 2.5x
[15:22:37.563] INFO Setting camera edge scroll to off (no mouselock)
[15:22:37.563] INFO Setting planet pole lock to off
[15:22:41.016] INFO client::ClientGame::disableLanLookout
[15:22:43.922] INFO client::ClientGame::resetGameState
[15:22:43.922] INFO Mouse constraint cleared.
[15:22:43.922] INFO ClientInterface constructed
[15:22:43.938] INFO ClientInterface constructed
[15:22:45.313] INFO Streaming state: Uninitialized
[15:22:45.313] INFO Resolving 0 callstacks
[15:22:45.313] INFO Resolve complete
[15:22:45.313] INFO Shutting down CoherentUI

Hi, I am using windows 8 and have the same black flashing screen problem on full screen mode and no problem at windowed mode. But sure I want to play it on full screen. Fix it please.

Make sure your drivers are updated
Try turning HDR off.
Try turning vsync on (if it's there, I can't remember).

All drivers are updated, turning HDR off didn't work, I couldn't find the vsync settings in game ):

Vsync will be in the drivers rather than in game I believe. If your on AMD then you need to go into the 'catalyst manager' app, or 'Nvidia Control Panel' for Geforce cards (not sure for Intel) and then go to advanced settings. You can force Vsync on or off in there.

I solved the problem with activating the SLI. Now I can play on full screen, HDR and vsync is on and i haven't got any problem. Thanks for your interest

What is SLI? Thanks !

If you have 2x Nvidia graphics card, you can activate SLI at your Nvidia Control Panel

I've set the shadow off and then the problem have fixed