Light flashes in VR at certain points on track

At certain points on track the whole image lights up bright in VR.

It also happens on the mirror desktop screen so i made a screenshot

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When standing still in a corner that has these bright spots, i can activate the bright spot by moving my head.
It's most of the time in corners. It was there before the latest patch, but now it's gotten worse.

There more tracks that have this issue, but here are some examples: Suzuka hairpin, Zandvoort chicane

 

I previously mention this multiple times but devs did not comment. Maybe they cannot fix it or is low priority for them but it is very noticeable on Rift and quite jarring when it occurs. Turning off bloom helps a bit on a few tracks but also best to avoid noon or midday racing as it is worse then, again this varies by track and number of clouds.

 

Yes but it can still occur at midday on some track & car combinations. Indycar at Nords from memory but I have to recheck as I do not have latest update due to floods/storms & no internet last 2 days.

 

Like mentioned before, i have noticed this for quite a while. This morning with DTM on Suzuka i had the issue on multiple corners. So much that it gets really annoying.

I have to check, but i believe that lightschafts and bloom are already disabled.

 

Oculus user here and I get this too. But only on the "Noon" time of day setting.

 

Yep, I get this too. I disabled light shafts and it seems to have gone away.

 

Is it a "whiteout" flashing you write about? I have this flashing, disabling light shafts or bloom doesn't help. I can't say what triggers it, sometimes I can drive for minutes without it, other times it happens every five to ten seconds rapidly, then it disappears for a while. The only series I have driven in the last weeks were WTCC 2015 and 2016 and it occurs on every track, at least the ones I was on like Hockenheim, Red Bull Ring, Zandvoort, Zolder... time was always midday (haven't checked it with another time of day).
I have the latest Oculus drivers and Nvidia drivers installed.

 

Do you also have strange shadow effects? I've noticed lately that I randomly get on a track in a race and a large shadow casts over a good chunk of the track follows me around. It's like i have my own personal rain cloud. Ever seen that? I haven't found a pattern to it yet.

 

Yeah mike I see that 99% of the time. Was hopeful it may be fixed soon but maybe devs are unaware ? I assuned it was associated with the other light burst graphical glitching

 

@HoiHman I've seen this effect in couple videos and i tought it's intentional - it kinda simulates little blinding caused by sun or something

 

I think this is something else, you are talking about the screen going completely white for a second?
I got this one too, and it's in the Bug reports.

This is caused by the shadow split, that's why it is supposed to be enabled by default now.
Do you still got this after the update?

 

That's interesting I see the shadow bug and have always had shadow split on.

@rad - if you have VR you will understand it is not a feature but a bug.

 

Yeah, i have shadow splits on too and still have shadow bug. Not related unfortunately.

I did just uninstall and manually remove steam VR and then reinstall and haven't seen it since. I see it in the intro video where the cars are lined up, but when i go to cockpit view its gone.....so far at least.

 

Hm, I had this bug until I turned on shadow split.

 

So i'm still seeing this mysterious shadow across the track from time to time. I have shadow split on.

Anyone else know what is causing this and when it will get fixed?

 

I only have lights flashes with my rift when "light shafts" are on.
But I've shadow bugs, too. During the track presentation before the race start, sometimes a large shadow casts over a good chunk of the track follows me around, too. And in the cockpit view, the shadows of track objects are missing completely or vanishing just before my car, when I drive under a bridge.
I found out, that the shadows are only missing in cockpit view. If I cycle through the different car onboard cameras, the object shadows come back in cockpit view. But there's definitely somthing messed up with the shadows, that has to be fixed.

My graphics settings are "shadows" = medium, "shadow spilt" = on, "car shadows" = on, "contact shadows" = 6.

I wrote a bug report several days ago, but nobody answered.

https://forum.sector3studios.com/in...-of-the-track-objects-are-missing-in-vr.7831/

 

Yeah I would agree the cloud shadow bug is independant of the other light issues. None of the already advised setup fixes can totally eliminate it so far.

 

Yesterday it was really hard to finish the race as constant blue flashes with no image hit me, ussually in the same parts of the track (Oschersleben). It looks like loss of tracking (HTC Vive) but with no apparent reason. Will try something to fix it during the week. It only happens in Raceroom.