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Screen flickers

Had a brief chat with Thomm and SPU9 in the IRC chat about this problem yesterday for those of you who saw it.

What happens is that after around 5-10 minutes in ET my screen starts flickering. It loses colours and just looks incredibly buggy. In order to sort it I have to restart the computer as it remains after closing ET as well.
I have experienced it in HoN as well, so it doesn't seem to be ET only.

I have a AMD Radeon HD 6900 and according to Catalyst the temperature's around 40-45 C so I'm guessing that it doesn't have anything to do with overheating.

My screen is a Samsung LED, 60hz.

As I'm no tech-wiz I was wondering if there's anyone who has any further advice?

Thanks in advance,
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maybe its not the screen maybe ur just imagining things , things happen

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try new monitor same machine
try diff machine + fliccering monitor
Check if the value on: cg_displayrefresh "value" matches the value in Catalyst Control Center (CCC.exe).
r_displayrefresh*
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Indeed.

My best guess is: the value in your config is to high.

EDIT: or did you perhaps installed a new Video driver recently?
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Thanks, I've got the value 75 in ET. Where can I find that value in CCC?
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Ok.
Open ccc.
Top right, click on 'preferences'.
Click on something that looks like: Advanced design. (my ccc isn't in english, so have to imagine what you would be seeing :DDD)
Ok, now go to 'Desktop Management' >desktop properties> and look for displayrefresh.
Take the highest Displayrefresh value, you can take!

Now go to your cfg in your etmain. And look for r_displayrefresh, and apply that value (from ccc) in your cfg.

Good luck

Edit: while you're in that CC Center, do this as well. It will improve your fps:
http://www.crossfire.nu/tutorials/199/users-with-amd-radeon-graphics-and-fps-problems
Thanks a lot mate! I couldn't use 75 hz as the resolution got messed up, but I've now both 60hz in-game and in CCC. Hopefully it'll work :D
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It should work.
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Unfortunately it continues... I've double-checked and double-checked again, doesn't seem to be anything hz related.

It just comes back anyway. Might be the screen itself I guess, I'll get myself another HDMI cable and have a go with the old screen as well.
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Update your drivers?
I'm clueless.
Both those ideas should have worked.
If you play another game rather than ET. Does is still flicker?
If not:
1) Your vid card does something wrong with Opengl.
If yes:
2) It's hardware related. Or your cable is fucked up, or your screen is messed up.
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Yeah, that's what I thought as well.

I'll keep on fiddling with this and if I have any breakthrough, I'll get back to you.
Thanks for all help so far tho.
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