This is so specific to the graphics system, this forum seems a good place to ask this over the general tech support, but if it belongs there let me know and I'll move it.
A couple days ago my fine-working system had an ad come up for a 'new' ATI driver manager, which had a new driver to install.
Usually cautious, I said 'what the heck, if it doesn't work well I'll do a checpoint restore'.
Since then, here's the problem. I didn't have flicker before. But now there's a lot.
Now on web pages as they load there's a lot of flicker of things while they load.
A good example is on anandtech. Most of the screen is fine. But in the 'text box', like the one I'm typing in now, there's a ton of redraw flicker.
If I try to higlight the text in a post I'm drafting, the whole box keeps flashing between text and black backgorund fast many times.
As I type this, every few charaters typed the line I'm typing on flashes black.
It's a strange problem.
Are there any comments, before I restore to the checkpoint?
One note, I leave my systme on for days/months, and sometimes graphics starts to get a bit weird like this after a while.
Of course I can reboot to try this too, but thought I'd ask this trying to confirm the cause while I can still test anything.
HD 4870 1GB, Win 7 Premium 64-bit.
A couple days ago my fine-working system had an ad come up for a 'new' ATI driver manager, which had a new driver to install.
Usually cautious, I said 'what the heck, if it doesn't work well I'll do a checpoint restore'.
Since then, here's the problem. I didn't have flicker before. But now there's a lot.
Now on web pages as they load there's a lot of flicker of things while they load.
A good example is on anandtech. Most of the screen is fine. But in the 'text box', like the one I'm typing in now, there's a ton of redraw flicker.
If I try to higlight the text in a post I'm drafting, the whole box keeps flashing between text and black backgorund fast many times.
As I type this, every few charaters typed the line I'm typing on flashes black.
It's a strange problem.
Are there any comments, before I restore to the checkpoint?
One note, I leave my systme on for days/months, and sometimes graphics starts to get a bit weird like this after a while.
Of course I can reboot to try this too, but thought I'd ask this trying to confirm the cause while I can still test anything.
HD 4870 1GB, Win 7 Premium 64-bit.
