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Are you using D3D or OpenGL?

http://code.google.com/p/dolphin-emu/issues/detail?id=5999 Related?

I use the recommended settings for playing The Wind Waker suggested by the Wiki. Everything that does not fall under that, I use the tooltip recommendation.

I use the D3D graphics. I did not use any savestates.

This issue also appears to apply to other inside areas and occurs at random; although, I also may not be seeing the sun. When the sun first appeared, it stayed. I have recently gotten to the Forbidden Woods, and the problem occurred again.

Unrelated: I SEVERELY dislike having even part of my e-mail show. How can I apply a nickname?

Use OpenGL and submit another screenshot please.

D3D has a similar error in Twilight Princess, so I'd like to see if this is the same thing as in Twilight Princess. If it is it'll be easier to track down and fix.

Thank you for your cooperation, and I wish I knew more about the Google Code account settings to help you out with that issue.

Does it happen in OpenGL?

Also, do you have a dedicated video card, or are you only running the "GPU Intel HD Graphics"? And can you specify which Intel HD graphics you have? Use GPU-Z to find out.

As for the email thing, sorry dude, only project members get that. Just how googlecode is.

I am at the Forbidden Woods now and cannot return efficiently to the volcano. The Forbidden Woods has issues with this as well.

With D3D: http://prntscr.com/2t7aoo
With OGL: For whatever reason, Dolphin suddenly won't work with OpenGL. It happened after I ran GPU-Z. I'll try again tomorrow after I've shut down my computer and such.

I do not understand what a "dedicated card" is.
GPU-Z provides this information: http://prntscr.com/2t7bjh

I went back there on my computer and was unable to reproduce. It appears your GPU drivers are at fault.

FYI this issue also occurs in Super Mario Sunshine. The sun rendering/lens flare effect is triggered by the game checking the Z buffer values of the screen area where the sun is located, if the Z values are "max" (0xFFFFFF) there has been nothing rendered on top of the sun and the lens flare is drawn. If EFB to cpu access is disabled, the Z values are faked to be 0 so the effect is always off. From this issue and #5999 it sounds like Z buffer EFB access with D3D11 is broken.

Recently updated the graphics card.

With D3D: http://prntscr.com/2th2gw
With OGL: http://prntscr.com/2th0s9

So OpenGL does fix the issue.

Updated to Dolphin 4.0-926.

Issue still persists with D3D.

Silly me, I forgot to get the new specs of the graphics card.
http://prntscr.com/2th5n7

...How is that "new specs"? It's the same graphics hardware you posted previous.

Just for reference, the depth read shaders in D3D11 probably suffer from overflow issue similar to the ones addressed in tev_fixes_new.

Would probably be worth trying to change depth_matrix_program in D3D/PixelShaderCache.cpp to use
"int4 EncodedDepth = ((int4(round(texcol.r * 16777215.0))&16777215) >> int4(16,8,0,0))) & int4(255,255,255,15);\n"
"texcol = float4(EncodedDepth) / float4(255.0f,255.0f,255.0f,15.0f);\n"
"ocol0 = float4(dot(texcol,cColMatrix[0]),dot(texcol,cColMatrix[1]),dot(texcol,cColMatrix[2]),dot(texcol,cColMatrix[3])) + cColMatrix[4];\n
instead of the analogous three lines that it uses currently. That's not really tested nor can I provide a build currently, though :p

Where do those two "15" constants come from?

I thought that updating the driver might change it. If it didn't, it didn't. I just put it there in case anything changed.

@ tueidj: These are for the Z4 copy format. They copy out the least significant 4 bits of depth.

Twilight Princess and Skyward Sword also suffer from this depth buffering issue.

Phantasy Star Online (OGL):
http://imgur.com/iG22R3V

Zelda TP (D3D11):
http://imgur.com/lAuQmDf

Salu2 - Darkness Knight

This was a separate issue all along, but very stupidly so. Took me a very long time to figure it out.

Is there any fix for this? I am getting it too on both D3D11 and Open GL

Use single core.

Could you explain that for me? What do you mean?

This is caused by some kind of desync in communication between the CPU and the GPU; so if you want to fix the issue, you can set Dolphin to single core in options/config.

I'm just going off my experience with this issue; not sure if there are multiple causes or other dumb settings that can trigger it.

You mean disable the option: "Enable Dual Core (speedup)"? I did that, and the flare is still there

For some reason dying in the game fixed it..