Flickering during games.

[Guest]

For over half my games, they run but while in-game the screen flickers in
blocky patterns. Semi-hard to describe. it seems large, squarish potions dim
and blink, hence flickering.
Now if i reboot my PC and that game is the first application I run then it
works fine. if i were to do something like playing an always-working game,
exit it, then start the "flickering-prone" one...it will "flicker" I can't
figure it out.
I figured it was a problem with my video card.
Any suggestions? or if needed I'llt ry to think up a better explination.
Thank you

~Zac

 

[Paul Smith]

For over half my games, they run but while in-game the screen flickers in
blocky patterns. Semi-hard to describe. it seems large, squarish potions
dim
and blink, hence flickering.
Now if i reboot my PC and that game is the first application I run then it
works fine. if i were to do something like playing an always-working game,
exit it, then start the "flickering-prone" one...it will "flicker" I can't
figure it out.
I figured it was a problem with my video card.
Any suggestions? or if needed I'llt ry to think up a better explination.

What graphics card do you have and what monitor?

If you're not sure check out the guide here
http://windows.dasmirnov.net/guides/hardware.php.

Posting your dxdiag file might be useful too to do this go to:
Start
-> Run
--> Type dxdiag and press enter
---> wait for it to do it's thing
----> press save all information
-----> save the file somewhere (your desktop for example)
------> paste it into the reply (you might have to break it into 2 or 3
parts).

--
Paul Smith,
Yeovil, UK.
http://www.dasmirnov.net/
http://windows.dasmirnov.net/ Windows XP Resource Site.

*Replace nospam with smirnov to reply by e-mail*

 

[Katy Pluta (MS_MVP)]

For over half my games, they run but while in-game the screen flickers in

blocky patterns. Semi-hard to describe. it seems large, squarish potions dim
and blink, hence flickering.
Now if i reboot my PC and that game is the first application I run then it
works fine. if i were to do something like playing an always-working game,
exit it, then start the "flickering-prone" one...it will "flicker" I can't
figure it out.
I figured it was a problem with my video card.
Any suggestions? or if needed I'llt ry to think up a better explination.

Is the video card overheating? What is it? Which game is it?

===
Katy P.
MS_MVP for Flight Simulator

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