Screen Flickering

[PitchBlack]

I had my screen startet flickering for no reason, driver are up to date, it just startet and not just for Baldurs Gate, for nearly all games. A buzzing of the screen mostly visable with blacks and shadows, you first think something is wrong with your eyes :D. I changed Frame rates ,toggel vsync on and off also hardware mouse curor on/off on games with that option, long story short, nothing of it helped.

So i disabled the "Windows Error Reporting service". And problem ist solved, no idea why, but maybe it helps someone.

Cheers

[Thomas D.]

Try to disable Ambient Occlusion in the game. It is buggy with some game + driver + GPU constellations since it exists and does exactly what you described.

If that doesn't work try to disable Hardware Accelerated GPU Scheduling and see if it makes any difference. (The exact location where to find it changed several times in Windows 10 and 11). But you will loose things like Frame Generation (and maybe GSync / FreeSync) this way.

[PitchBlack]

Originally posted by Thomas D.:

Try to disable Ambient Occlusion in the game. It is buggy with some game + driver + GPU constellations since it exists and does exactly what you described.

If that doesn't work try to disable Hardware Accelerated GPU Scheduling and see if it makes any difference. (The exact location where to find it changed several times in Windows 10 and 11). But you will loose things like Frame Generation (and maybe GSync / FreeSync) this way.

Disabeling Window Error Reporting Service fixed it. Ambient Occlusion did not, at least not for me

[milordas75]

had one game in my history with similar problems. Turned off g-sync and problem solved

[Thomas D.]

Interesting and odd too. If thats causing any issues I am wondering why?

Sounds like it would probably steal focus (which could cause flickering) but which it shouldnt do because as far as I know the Window Error Reporting Service even doesnt create any Window that could steal focus.

Or something is heavily going wrong on your system and produces endless amount of error repots but this would more likely cause lagging instead of flickering.

Even the flickering is fixed I would recommend to check the Error Log and find out whats going on.

[PitchBlack]

Originally posted by Thomas D.:

Interesting and odd too. If thats causing any issues I am wondering why?

Sounds like it would probably steal focus (which could cause flickering) but which it shouldnt do because as far as I know the Window Error Reporting Service even doesnt create any Window that could steal focus.

Or something is heavily going wrong on your system and produces endless amount of error repots but this would more likely cause lagging instead of flickering.

Even the flickering is fixed I would recommend to check the Error Log and find out whats going on.

Log is clear, at least nothing related, i picked that solution up, it seems it is know to fix that issue, but why seems not to be known :D

[Thomas D.]

Is it clear after you disabled the service or was it clear before, too?

[PitchBlack]

Originally posted by Thomas D.:

Is it clear after you disabled the service or was it clear before, too?

after.
The problem was not Game related, because it happen also in Elite Dangerous, Space Marine 2 and some other games. After i disabled the service the problem was gone in all games.