Screen flickering

[Callidon]

Anyone else get this? not in an artifact or tearing kind of way, more of a flickering bulb kind of thing. like the back light of the display is dimming/brightening?

Only happens on Starfield, doesn't always happen, but when it does it makes it unplayable and i have to close/re-open the game. Only issue si've encountered so far and wondering if anyone has had and fixed the issue?

I'm running an RTX4070

[Lottergeist_Beetlejuice]

Greetings, I had this with a VA monitor that is not Gsync certified, but you can use it anyway, but just with the side effect that you have a flickering. I have disabled Gsync in the Nvidia driver. Then the flickering was gone, now I have one with IPS panel from LG's Gsync. I don't have any flickering anymore and have Gsync on. Don't know what kind of monitor you're using? But the game has a lot of problems, the longer I play, the more I notice that.

[Slackerdude74]

I have that screen flickering every once in awhile in the menus on the Xbox Series X, but that's it.

[Callidon]

Originally posted by EinfachUdo:

Greetings, I had this with a VA monitor that is not Gsync certified, but you can use it anyway, but just with the side effect that you have a flickering. I have disabled Gsync in the Nvidia driver. Then the flickering was gone, now I have one with IPS panel from LG's Gsync. I don't have any flickering anymore and have Gsync on. Don't know what kind of monitor you're using? But the game has a lot of problems, the longer I play, the more I notice that.

I'm using a ROG Strix laptop so not much i can do with the panel, but as it's the only game i have this issue on i'm not concerned about a fault or anything. Just kind of ruins the immersion when every 25 minutes i'm quiting to desktop to sort out the flickering issue. I'll check G-Sync, see if that's where the solution is, cheers.

Cyberpunk runs mostly on highest settings with no issues and that's with ray tracing on.

[Doombringer]

The game has some issues with gfx.
I get black ghosting and after playing a longer time the flickering thing you are talking about.
(rtx3070 laptop)
(black ghosting = where text or something bright was then becomes black then disappears instead of just disappearing...)

I don't have either issue in any other game.

[Boe Jiden]

It just works.

[Marf]

Just noticed it flickering too, wasn't doing it before the update!

[TheMerc]

https://steamcommunity.com/app/1716740/discussions/0/4035850170400150435/

[Bloodhoundtv675]

I’ve been having the same issue and I use a GeForce 3070 and monitor is a Asus Tuff gaming gsync monitor 244hz 1080p don’t know why this was happening wondering if there’s a fix. I just recently got into it again and this takes away from me enjoying it.

[tkwoods]

Originally posted by Assassin_0_0675:

I’ve been having the same issue and I use a GeForce 3070 and monitor is a Asus Tuff gaming gsync monitor 244hz 1080p don’t know why this was happening wondering if there’s a fix. I just recently got into it again and this takes away from me enjoying it.

This has to be related to refresh rate / FPS and sync between the monitor and gpu.

Try capping you gpu to a lower setting and see if it helps.

[jerusalem_deckard]

flickering lighting = DISABLE FREESYNC/G-SYNC. enable Vsync in-game instead.

the fix i found for this exact problem of being in certain zones like The Well and Cydonia with the screen sort of brightening every few frames like a subtle but annoying strobe effect: Nvidia control panel > manage 3d settings > program settings > select or otherwise "add" Starfield > set "monitor technology" to "fixed refresh rate" > apply ; just make sure to put on Vsync in-game if you don't want tearing. this absolutely seems to be a conflict between the game engine and adaptive sync technology. anyway, solved for me, never needed to delete any DXcaches or .dll's.

[TheToxicTherapyRoom]

70$ bethesda games have a bad tendency to flicker and be extremely buggy, you will get used to it on time hopefully.

[PlusMinus]

And it's still here

[Tedesco]

Originally posted by jerusalem_deckard:

flickering lighting = DISABLE FREESYNC/G-SYNC. enable Vsync in-game instead.

the fix i found for this exact problem of being in certain zones like The Well and Cydonia with the screen sort of brightening every few frames like a subtle but annoying strobe effect: Nvidia control panel > manage 3d settings > program settings > select or otherwise "add" Starfield > set "monitor technology" to "fixed refresh rate" > apply ; just make sure to put on Vsync in-game if you don't want tearing. this absolutely seems to be a conflict between the game engine and adaptive sync technology. anyway, solved for me, never needed to delete any DXcaches or .dll's.

If anybody searches for this problem and finds this post on Google, like I did, this is the answer. Turning off Freesync and enabling in-game Vsync fixed this issue for me.