Screen flickers
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11 Apr 2013, 09:15
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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,
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,
try new monitor same machine
try diff machine + fliccering monitor
My best guess is: the value in your config is to high.
EDIT: or did you perhaps installed a new Video driver recently?
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
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.
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.
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.