Constant Flickering of Colors - Almost Unplayable

[Kruhl]

Hi all - has anyone else had any experience with flickering while playing the game? What I mean is, I occasionally have periods when I'll start seeing random red/white dots appearing all over the screen at different intervals and shapes. Sometimes it's just a few, while other times there's large sections that will flash. As the flickering gets worse it almost always ends with the game crashing. I've been unable to identify what causes it and what I'm seeing on the screen doesn't appear to have any affect on its return. Here's my rig:



AMD Ryzen 7 2700X (no OC)

64 GB Corsair Vengeance 2400MHz

ASUS Prime B450M-A/CSM Motherboard

EVGA 1080 ti FTW3

(I also have a 32" monitor that I run on 4k resolution)

When I first got the game, I never had any issues. I even would run the graphics settings a couple notches below max and it wouldn't even hiccup. (It would run a near constant 35 fps) I've always ran the most up to date Nvidia drivers also. Sometime over the last few months either a GPU driver or a game update has caused the issues, I'm almost certainly convinced. Anyone else run into this issue and did you find a resolution?

[GOD RAYS ON ULTRA™]

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Hi all

Welcome!

Kruhl の投稿を引用：

has anyone else had any experience with flickering while playing the game? What I mean is, I occasionally have periods when I'll start seeing random red/white dots appearing all over the screen at different intervals and shapes. Sometimes it's just a few, while other times there's large sections that will flash. As the flickering gets worse it almost always ends with the game crashing.

No I haven't experienced such a thing with this game. is the 1080ti overclocked? it might be from the factory. in that case, you can try "debug mode" in your nvidia control panel. You can use it to test. What you are experiencing sounds like it's gpu artifacts. Make sure you monitor and log usage data of what happens during the crash (like temperature, memory usage, ect.) so we can pin point a solution.

Top of steam > help > system information. copy and paste here.

[Kruhl]

Thanks Prothean - I'll take any feedback or recommendations that I can get!

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Windows 10 (64 bit)
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[Calibre]

check your systems temps when it happens first, if temps are all good, start with DDUing your Display driver and doing a clean re-install.

[Calibre]

temps = Temperature - is it running hot?

[Kruhl]

Temps run consistently below or right at EVGA specifies as normal. I've done a ton of research also and have found lots of other players with the same issue. I've tried all of the following:

-Clean install of driver
-Removal of all 3rd party software that could modify GPU settings
-Clean install of RDR2
-Clean intall of all Nvidia software
-Clean install of Windows 10 and game
-Switching between HDMI and DP cable (some on other forums claimed that fixed)
-Switching to a single monitor
-Switching to a different smaller monitor

It is important to note, I ONLY have this issue in RDR2. No other games, even on their highest settings, do anything close to what's been happening in this game and even in RDR2, I never had these issues during the first couple of months of release on PC.

Here's a pic (that I made) that displays almost identically how it looks - the red areas are constantly flashing all over the screen in random areas and in different dots and squares that are all semi-transparent.

RDR2 Issue[imgur.com]

[lamacra]

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Temps run consistently below or right at EVGA specifies as normal. I've done a ton of research also and have found lots of other players with the same issue. I've tried all of the following:

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RDR2 Issue[imgur.com]

Thats really strange because "usually" graphic failures like this happen when the GPU gets too hot. But when you say that temps are ok... Did you overclock? because maybe the rams get to hot or simple they are clocked too high? This can also result in display failures.

[Kruhl]

Yep - temps on everything are 100% normal. I've even underclocked the video card with the same result. I've also verified my CPU and RAM are running at normal speeds/temps. This issue is maddening - especially because of how much I enjoy the game. It's true that at first glance, my initial thought was GPU failure until I couldn't reproduce it in other games running much higher than RDR2.

[Calibre]

have you tried seating the gfx card in a different Pci slot? or see if you can frame buffer the problem away?

[GOD RAYS ON ULTRA™]

Did you try debug mode yet? It's easy to do. Upper left of nvidia cp> help> debug mode. it will return your gpu to reference nvidia values vs the factory overclock setting. You have to enable it on every restart though because it doesn't stick. If debug mode ends up being a solution for you, then you can look at either the gpu being defective or psu and start there.

The other thing you can try is looking at your ram configuration and making sure they are all from the same kit and running on the "auto" setting located in the bios. Don't use any xmp profiles. don't modify anything. just let the memory controller detect the values it wants and run those.

Every other game runs well for you and that's great. but this game doesn't so something is wrong.

[Kruhl]

Debug mode seems to fix the issue - no flickering when it's on. I still would like to know why this game has to be ran on debug settings but it didn't use to and all of my other games run great on their oc'd settings. Thank you Prothean!

[GOD RAYS ON ULTRA™]

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Debug mode seems to fix the issue - no flickering when it's on. I still would like to know why this game has to be ran on debug settings but it didn't use to and all of my other games run great on their oc'd settings. Thank you Prothean!

I honestly don't know man. It does return the card to reference nvidia values, so to me that means the overclock from the factory is unstable. At least in this game. But who's at fault? EVGA? NVIDIA? Rockstar? Maybe even Windows.

My guess is that's why debug mode is there. just in case.

What about your psu? What kind is it? Can it comfortably push the EVGA overclock?

[Kruhl]

Yeah - it's definitely a new one on me. I've also got a Corsair 1000W PSU - so I should have plenty of power to spare.

[GOD RAYS ON ULTRA™]

Well, if it's worth anything I always run debug mode on machines that have it, even if I'm not having issues. I just feel better running at reference.