God damn flickering!!!

[OneOfTheseDays]

what the hell is causing this flickerin on my computer. my monitor refresh rate is set to a 100hz and i still get the occasional flicker. it only happens in certain direct 3d games. is this common??? i was just playin the tony hawk 2 demo and it flickers all over the place!!!

 

[Syborg1211]

maybe your monitor cant handle that high of a refresh rate

 

[Syborg1211]

and perhaps the game is not set for your graphics card

 

[OneOfTheseDays]

please my monitor is the iiyama visionmaster 450 pro. i think it can handle it. I notice that it is like a white flash for just an instant. it happens rarely but its kinda annoyin. does nebdy experience this. it is kinda like what happens when i play a tombraider game on my playstation.

 

[Comp10]

The problem could be that your refresh rate for the resolutions you use in the game is not set to the optimal level. Go through to the display properties and change each different resolution's refresh rate to the desired level and see if that fixes it.

 

[hans007]

you are running a geforce what did you expect. if you are getting flickering at 1280 or 1600 then its the geforce i'd say. still try some lower refresh rates.

 

[Syborg1211]

so i guess Hans is an anti-geforce guy. MOST DEFINITELY NOT the card itself. Maybe settings, but unless that card is defective, you should have NO problems.

 

[fodd3r]

try setting your refresh rate to optimal, if it still flickers, make sure vsync is on. my friend couldn't play quake 3 without flickering, unless he had vsync on.

 

[OneOfTheseDays]

i have my refresh at 100hz at 1024X768 at 32 bit color. this is what i play most games at. I just saw another thread where i guy experienced polygon flashing. this is what i experience. however it only happens rarely, but enough to piss me off. stupid geforces have so many probs!!!!

 

[hans007]

hey i'm just saying that from experience. I dont know what you guys call "flickering" but when you put up a white background and it sort of shimmers on white, that is flickering. anyways... i didnt read that he said its only on certain 3d games, sorry, but if it happens on 2d thats the reason, you probably have a driver problem.

 

[Shudder]

Is Vsync on or off?

I would get mad flickering in some games and it drove me crazy until one day I reinstalled the card/drivers and didn't turn off vsync. Bingo. Solved the problem.

 

[Phalkon]

I'm thinking bad drivers.
Download the lastest drivers for your card if you haven't already
Upgrade DirectX if you haven't already
If you're overclocking your video card, ramp it down a bit.

It sounds like texture flickering to me. Make sure that somewhere in your settings that your DirectX texture centring is set to the very middle value (I'm too lazy to look it up) It helps me.

 

[OneOfTheseDays]

thanks for the help, i will try setting my direct x textel origin thingy to the middle like you said. funny, whenever i turn on fsaa the problem goes away.