Why are my explosions square?

[user1679]

I've noticed that with 7.60 my explosions are square. The exploding ship is a Razorbill and I don't remember them looking this way in the past.

I have an RTX 3060 with 24 GB of VRAM, my settings are:

resolution: 1920x1080
DLSS: On but using DLSSA only
Effect distance: maximum
LOD: maximum
Chromatic Abberation: off
Glow: low
UI glow: off
... I forget the others

In my nvidia control panel I have DLSS sharpening set to 20%, the resize option is off because I don't use a resize compatible resolution. I have all the AA settings off in the driver. Any ideas (other than "because your monitor's square")?

[Alan Phipps]

I tidied up the duplications in your post.

Do you have a vanilla save from (just?) before the ship explodes that you could link? The devs cannot investigate anything from a screenshot. The more information/evidence (such as links to DxDiag and VulkanInfo - see the Sticky thread at the top of this forum) the more the devs can look into.

Have you tried varying the graphical settings to see if it is restricted to any particular mode or setting, or is a more general issue?

[user1679]

I tidied up the duplications in your post.

Do you have a vanilla save from (just?) before the ship explodes that you could link? The devs cannot investigate anything from a screenshot. The more information/evidence (such as links to DxDiag and VulkanInfo - see the Sticky thread at the top of this forum) the more the devs can look into.

Have you tried varying the graphical settings to see if it is restricted to any particular mode or setting, or is a more general issue?

Thank you for the cleanup.

I don't have a save, I had my ships protecting a sector with OBS running in the background and stepped away because nothing was happening for about 15 minutes. Saw this when reviewing footage. But I did change "glow quality" to medium and it seems to have smoothed it out a bit, though it was a different ship that exploded so I don't know if that had an effect too.