Screen flashing issue.

[Kleggnutt]

As per title. I have Googled but all I find are articles with a different sort of flashing (oo-er) involving textures or shadows. My problem is the whole screen flashes white occasionally ... almost like lightning. Really annoying and nothing I do seems to help. Tried reinstalling, game and drivers but to no avail. Tried different settings with no results. Disabling Steam overlay did nothing either.

[Lagomorfo]

Happening to me too, although it seemed to stop after I turned off tessellation but I haven't played much beyond that so it might be temporary, it also fixes the issue with the grainy spots on npc faces(if it works of course).

[Kleggnutt]

Turning lighting down seemed to lessen how often it happens but doesn't stop it completely.

[satsun]

I think it's a bug with the latest NVIDIA drivers.

[Sira]

im having this issue too, its frustrating as hell

[Muay Ninja]

I have the same issue. Nvidia GTX 770 with latest drivers.

[Tarnkappenstein]

I had the latest NVIDIA beta drivers installed, and going back to the last WHQL certified driver fixed it for me.

[HeavyStorm]

Same issue here. My card is a GTX 770. I update the drivers last week and resumed playing Deus Ex just now - I didn't had the problem the week before. For the record, my driver version is 337.88 and I'm running Win 8.1 64bit

[HeavyStorm]

Hey you all, I've been experiment with settings (turned them all off and then tuned on one by one) and I may have found the culprit: TRIPLE BUFFERING. Turning it off resulted in no more WHITE FLASHING; Everything else can be _maximized_.

Of course, this issue can be the result of a combination of configuration and hardware types, so my solution may not work for everyone. But it's certainly working for me.

[INSANE]

Yep, I had the same problem when I started playing and that solved it for me.

[Decayed Sun]

Same problem here, GTX 680 and 337.88 WHQL. Unfortunately disabling triple buffering does not solve the issue for me... it's very annoying.

[INSANE]

Originally posted by Alex:

Same problem here, GTX 680 and 337.88 WHQL. Unfortunately disabling triple buffering does not solve the issue for me... it's very annoying.

Are you certain you don't have an override for the setting in your Nvidia control panel?

[Decayed Sun]

Originally posted by INSANE:

Originally posted by Alex:

Same problem here, GTX 680 and 337.88 WHQL. Unfortunately disabling triple buffering does not solve the issue for me... it's very annoying.

Are you certain you don't have an override for the setting in your Nvidia control panel?

Yes, everything is managed by the application

[INSANE]

Originally posted by Alex:

Originally posted by INSANE:

Are you certain you don't have an override for the setting in your Nvidia control panel?

Yes, everything is managed by the application

Maybe it would help creating a separate profile for it then? And disabling triple buffering there as well?

[Decayed Sun]

Mmm, reverting to the previous WHQL (335.23) seems to have fixed the issue...

[HeavyStorm]

Originally posted by Alex:

Mmm, reverting to the previous WHQL (335.23) seems to have fixed the issue...

It's certainly an issue with the drivers. Reverting it back should solve the problem for anyone, but I'm disappointed that disabling triple buffering didn't worked for you.

In fact, it makes sense: the screen "flashes" white because one of the screen buffers in clear (white) when it's rendered by the display. In other words, for some reason, this new driver is either discarding or supplying the wrong rendering context for some calls that Deus Ex make ad skipping a full video buffer now and then.