Screen keeps flashing

[lfg451992]

i dont konw if this happen to any of you guys but i bought the game recently and works perfect the thing is that the screen is always flashing i mean the game works but the screen keeps flashing all the time i try moving resolution even unistall game complete but nothing seems to work,you have any sugestions??

[beebarb]

Sounds like a refresh rate issue. Try changing the refresh rate in the game settings, or the 'user.ini' file which should be in:

"..\My Documents\My Games\South Park - The Stick of Truth"

Some LCD monitors can only operate effectively at their 'native refresh'. Basically, the refresh rate it is rated at when you go to buy it.

If the monitor was advertised as 100Hz, you should run games at 100Hz.

My monitor is not rated at a set refresh, but glitches when forced to 60Hz. I set the game to what it calls 1920x1080@2Hz (low numbers like 0-2 usually means 'let monitor select').

[lfg451992]

[Engine.Render]
adapter = -1
anisotropic = 1
default_brightness = 0.138000
default_contrast = 0.946001
default_contrast_range_low = 0.09
default_display_conversion = box
default_gamma = 1.0
dist_fade_duration = 0.5
dist_fade_in_range = 40.0
dist_fade_out_range = 45.0
effects_quality = 1
enable_antialias = false
enable_bloom = false
enable_color_controls = false
enable_color_correction = false
enable_depth_of_field = false
enable_fog = false
enable_heat_haze = true
enable_postprocess = true
enable_transparent_depth = false
full_screen = 1
full_screen_height = 900
full_screen_hz = 60
full_screen_width = 1600
motion_blur_enable = 0
motion_blur_max_length = 0.3
motion_blur_scale = 0.5
movie_sharpen_amount = 0.0
movie_sharpen_radius = 0.0
msaa = 0
s3d_ar_multiplier = 1.3
scaleform_edge_aa = 1.0
separate_dimensions = 1
shader_quality = 1
shadow_quality = 3
support_aspect_ratio_16_10 = false
support_aspect_ratio_4_3 = false
support_aspect_ratio_custom = false
support_skinning = false
texture_quality = 4096
use_directx_11 = false
vsync = 1
window_height = 720
window_width = 1280

[Engine.Audio]
enable_communication = 1
enabled = 1

[Engine.Perf]
perf_marker_categories_enabled = 0
this is everything that appears so i change the rate and reboot pc or only change??

[beebarb]

Okay, looks like you just dumped the entire contents of 'user.ini' into a post...

Anyway, the entry for the refresh rate is:
full_screen_hz = 60

You want to change the value from '60' to your monitor's rated refresh rate, or '0' if you are unsure.

[jonnymalcs]

I'm guessing Win 8.1, right?

Running the game in Windows 7 compatibility stopped the flashing for me.

Hope that helps.

(Find the .exe in the steamapps folder, right-click-troubleshoot compatibility)