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MCPE-224215

[Vibrant Visuals] Black squares/artifacts appear on distant water surfaces

What happens:
Black, square-shaped graphical artifacts appear on the surface of water, especially when viewed from a
distance.

Steps to Reproduce:

  1. Launch Minecraft with Vibrant Visuals enabled.

  2. Enter any world and locate a large body of water (e.g., an ocean or a large lake).

  3. Find a viewpoint and look out across the water towards the horizon.

  4. Observe the surface of the water in the distance.

Expected Result:
The water surface should render smoothly and correctly without any visual glitches.

Actual Result:
Black, square-shaped artifacts are visible on the distant water surface, disrupting the normal appearance.

Additional Notes:
This issue has been happening since the recent graphics update (Vibrant Visuals). To troubleshoot, I have
confirmed the game is running "vanilla" without any resource packs loaded. My system is a laptop equipped
with an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Ti Laptop GPU. The issue still persists as of today.

I have noticed others are experiencing this same issue, also with a 5070 Ti (it is unconfirmed if they are
using a laptop or desktop version). Here is a link to a Reddit thread discussing it:
https://www.reddit.com/r/Minecraft/comments/1lnqbay/vibrant_visuals_image_issue_bedrock_pc/

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This issue is being tracked at MCPE-220439.

Lynne Pairs

(Unassigned)

Unconfirmed

Windows

Windows 11 Home, Version 24H2 (OS Build 26100.4351)

1.21.93 Hotfix

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