I just installed a new video card hoping that would fix the problem but it
hasn't. It's the outline of the table that flickers very brightly (looks
cool at first but grows old quickly). I pause the game and it stops for
awhile but it comes back again. I've reinstalled the game and have tried
turning off whatever programs I can but I still get that momentary freeze
that can definitely take the fun out of pinball. My refresh rate will work
only at 60 hertz (without everything lightly, but noticeably flickering) but
have adjusted it to see if it would make a difference during the game. It
didn't. Neither did adjusting the color quality. It's not one particular
game but all of them, so it's not the software. I've also upgraded to a gig
of RAM (pinballs not exactly a drain on the resources to begin with) but
still I get freeze and flicker. I don't believe the two problems are
actually related to be honest. Sometimes, when I close a window, sections of
that window still remain on the desktop and when I was running the DirectX
diagnostic, it actually seemed like the rotating cube froze for a split
second here and there. Whether it's supposed to have done that, or not, I
don't know, but it definitely did happen.
Any thoughts? I'm kind of at my wit's end.
Also, can anyone tell me how to delete some of my startup programs. It was
easy to do that in previous versions of Windows (via "system
information/tools") but XP has made that more complicated too. I get to the
page and can see what's starting up but there are no more boxes to check, or
uncheck to make any changes. Is this supposed to be an "upgrade"? XP seems
to have several of them. How I miss Windows 95.
Thanks for any help that anyone can offer.
Nick
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