What causes flickering vid card/ or monitor?

[Stiler]

I got some games that sometimes flicker quite a bit, does the video card cause this or is it my monitior? if so how can i fix it?

 

[Adul]

it is called refresh rate. You must be running at 60hz while gaming. This usualy can be fixd by using power strip. I assume you are running win2k with a nvidia card

 

[MichaelD]

Flickering can either be due to the output signal flickering, a loose cable or if you have flourescent lights in the room and your monitor refresh is set at 60Hz you'll see the scan lines (or flickering).

Is it only with certain games? What about while emailing/surfing?

 

[Stiler]

i'm running on a nvidia card yes but on windows ME.

edit- Never get flickering while surfing, jus in games, i'm experincing it in return to castle wolfenstein, i had some flickering in other games as well.

 

[Viper GTS]

Do you run your games at the same resolution as your desktop?

Check what mode your monitor is running in when windows is running (it should tell you the refresh rate), then check it when you're playing your game.

Viper GTS

 

[Stiler]

how do i see what its refresh rate is? i know that i have it set to optimal on my video card...

 

[Stiler]

bump, where'd you all go, dun leave meh hanging

 

[Zugzwang152]

you can check your refresh rate in windows' control panel display. change it down to 60 or whatever the others recommended.

 

[Stiler]

i went to that, then advacnded, then adapter, and changed it from optimal to 60khz, still does it, tried 85khz too and it still does it.

 

[Demonicon]

You want 85Hz or better, try a lower res if you can'tget your refresh rate to 85Hz.

 

[yllus]

With my 1001st post, I bless thee with a simple point-and-click solution:

Windows 2000/XP NVidia Refresh Rate Fix

My guess is it'll work for WinME just fine as well, because it doesn't seem to care much about the OS when I've used it. Keep us updated if it works out...