Weird Flickering Black Screen and SFM Animation not Playing unless I Move my Cursor

[Jakerro]

So I'm not sure how to describe this. Whenever I move my mouse while clicking in the view port, everything will seem to be fine, but when i stop moving my mouse, the screen goes black. This only happens when I have a map loaded and I try to rotate the camera. Keep in mind that I am holding the left click button in all of this. Please help me fix this!

[Capt Fuzzy]

It's possible that you may be too close to the edge or border of the map.
If this is the case, depending on which way you turn, you could very well end up seeing nothing but black, as in the 'void' that is outside the map.

One other possibility that comes to mind is that if you are using Discord and have it running while working with SFM, Discord's overlay could be causing this.
It's been known to interfere with SFM in similar fashion to what you are describing.
To fix it, simply shut down Discord while using SFM, and no.., there is no known fix for this, at least none that I'm aware of...

[Jakerro]

I dont have discord running and I am not near the edge or border of the map. So I have no clue why this is happening.

[Jakerro]

So I looked a bit more into the issue, and apparently if i try to play the entire scene, it just shows a black screen unless i move my cursor.

[episoder]

ooh. i have it too. i could definetely pin it on the latest windows update. just updated today. was working fine yesterday. i may attempt a graphics driver update.

edit1: i don't even have a transfered driver in my software list. i'm certain i was running with a butchered microsoft driver. that's a bunch of rubbish they do. wtf. lol

edit2: graphics driver update doesn't fix it. i can only get rid of the flicker keeping the engine window open. it's nothing in it, but it's bad it can't minimize. very potentially the window manager and process communication broken. most definetely crippled by micropest. those office gui fluff heads got no clue what they heck they doing with this sh!t anymore. pointless add app crap. /rant

'nother thing is, if i swtich to game mode and back i get thrown out of the map.

ugh.

[Pte Jack]

I HATE Windows Update Tuesdays... I'm Not seeing an update for yesterday or today. At least not yet. Can you do an uninstall update through the settings update menu to see if that is really the cause?

[episoder]

Originally posted by Pte Jack:

I'm Not seeing an update for yesterday or today. At least not yet. Can you do an uninstall update through the settings update menu to see if that is really the cause?

i just got some 'major' crapp update yesterday. rolling this whole system sh!t back and forth takes hours again torturing my harddrive. no thx. sorry. i may just deal with it. luckily most of my other tools and engines still work just fine. sfm isn't really a prio for me. so...

[Jakerro]

Well if there is a fix please let me know, I really don’t wanna deal with this annoying bug.

[episoder]

Originally posted by Jakerro ll Unlucky Bastard:

Well if there is a fix please let me know, I really don’t wanna deal with this annoying bug.

try to tick or untick the "autohide engine window" in the windows menu. seems to be the issue.

[Jakerro]

I did that, it worked for like a split second and it went back to doing the stupid black screen problem.

[episoder]

Originally posted by Jakerro ll Unlucky Bastard:

I did that, it worked for like a split second and it went back to doing the stupid black screen problem.

what exactly did you do? try to restart sfm with it on. works? if not restart with it off. it should work in one of those 2 states. if not the issue may be more then that.

[Jakerro]

So i tried having the "autohide engine window" off and it seems to be working fine. i dont know why its doing this though, ive had the engine window automatically hidden before and everything was fine.

[Pte Jack]

See this discussion Epsoder. It's working for some.

https://steamcommunity.com/app/1840/discussions/0/1693795812288405156/

[episoder]

Originally posted by Pte Jack:

See this discussion Epsoder. It's working for some.

https://steamcommunity.com/app/1840/discussions/0/1693795812288405156/

seen that. "some" doesn't mean everybody. forget about that easy all medicine you think it is. i've been running autohide ever since. it's always been on. doesn't fix this sh!t tho. i trouble shot all sorta thing myself. i gotta turn it off for it to work. so... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[TheRedToonist]

This is what happens to me as well...
My GIF:
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1387754977

[Pte Jack]

Originally posted by episoder:

seen that. "some" doesn't mean everybody. forget about that easy all medicine you think it is.

Problem is that this "bug" hasn't hit me yet and I can't replicate it, this is only a suggestion

Originally posted by episoder:

i've been running autohide ever since. it's always been on. doesn't fix this sh!t tho. i trouble shot all sorta thing myself. i gotta turn it off for it to work. so... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Always been on, EXACTLY! The problem exists...
BUT, Have you tried turning auto hide off while in a session, Close SFM hile it's in the off state, Restart SFM, re-open the QT Port, and Turn the auto hide off again?