Glare flickering(supposedly a shader precision issue) DX11 client on Nvidia GPU's.

[BrianJ]

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Frequency: Always(on Nvidia card)
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Area and coordinates: Mist - x9.6 y11.7
Housing: Mist
Steps:
1. Make sure you use the DX11 client.
2. Make sure you have Glare on "Normal"
3. Go to the location specified in this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGUMB_ye3PA
4. Move the camera around a bit and you will see the glare shader flicker like crazy.
*Add more steps if necessary

I've made a topic about it on the Nvidia forum, i'll add it here for reference: https://forums.geforce.com/default/t...-xiv-/#5191722
Confirms i'm not alone with this issue. Please look closer into it before saying Unable to Verify again, since this is pretty much 100% reproducible.

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