Flickering Lights and Black Squares – Tried Everything, Need Help

[BIONICS]

Hey everyone,

I’ve been running into a really frustrating issue with Ghost of Tsushima on PC — the lights are constantly flickering and I’m seeing weird black squares popping up during gameplay.

I’ve already tried every possible fix I could think of: Admin mode, Compatibility mode, Frame generation on/off, DLSS on/off, Tweaked in-game settings in every way imaginable. Still no luck.

I’ve also searched through Reddit and other forums but couldn’t find a solution that worked for me.

Here’s a link to a recording showing exactly what’s going on: https://mega.nz/folder/mNBF3L7b#Gn1rceofw5iXaHYh-gc4tg

My hardware setup:

GPU: ASUS RTX 5070
CPU: AMD Ryzen 9 5900X

Has anyone else experienced this? Or maybe someone has an idea what might be causing it or how to fix it?

Any help would be hugely appreciated!

[SpenatCZ]

I can confirm that changing display to exclusive fullscreen (or windowed) did not change anything (using. I have 5070 Ti, 576.15 drivers). Guess we just have to wait...

[BlastThyName]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von SpenatCZ:

I can confirm that changing display to exclusive fullscreen (or windowed) did not change anything (using. I have 5070 Ti, 576.15 drivers). Guess we just have to wait...

The issue has been highlighted by NVIDIA.

Only rolling back drivers to 572.83 or wait for the next one.

Dead Space Remake is also affected.

[1up]

same issue in 5070ti on Driver version 576.15

[Bonkal | at]

i had this issue with other games aswell in the past, i used afterburner to underclock the memory frequency. fixed it for me back then, give it a try meaybe?

[BlastThyName]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Bonkal | at:

i had this issue with other games aswell in the past, i used afterburner to underclock the memory frequency. fixed it for me back then, give it a try meaybe?

Should not be necessary. I'm not overclocking my memory.

[Bonkal | at]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von BlastThyName:

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Bonkal | at:

i had this issue with other games aswell in the past, i used afterburner to underclock the memory frequency. fixed it for me back then, give it a try meaybe?

Should not be necessary. I'm not overclocking my memory.

could be faulty none the less

[BlastThyName]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Bonkal | at:

Ursprünglich geschrieben von BlastThyName:

Should not be necessary. I'm not overclocking my memory.

could be faulty none the less

Not if the issue disappears with another, older, driver.

NVIDIA have recognized the issue.

[pug987]

New nvidia driver (576.28), problem still there.

[BlastThyName]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von pug987:

New nvidia driver (576.28), problem still there.

Did you expect otherwise when the problem is explicitly listed in the "open issues" section ?
https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/forums/game-ready-drivers/13/564384/geforce-grd-57628-feedback-thread-released-43025/

[John]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von BlastThyName:

Ursprünglich geschrieben von pug987:

New nvidia driver (576.28), problem still there.

Did you expect otherwise when the problem is explicitly listed in the "open issues" section ?
https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/forums/game-ready-drivers/13/564384/geforce-grd-57628-feedback-thread-released-43025/

When it was already an open issue in the previous driver and the new 576.28 driver literally lists under fixes "[RTX 50 series] Some games may display shadow flicker/corruption after updating to GRD 576.02 [5231537]"
then...yeah, I actually do expect that, imagine that. It just became an open issue again because people told Nvidia that their crap is still not working.

[BIONICS]

From Nvidia release notes, the issue is still open even after the new patch:

https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/forums/game-ready-drivers/13/564384/geforce-grd-57628-feedback-thread-released-43025/

[RTX 50 series] Flickering/corruption around light sources in Ghost of Tsushima Directors Cut [5138067]

[Scott McTomcangto]

same issues with 5070ti 14700k 576.28 the newest, 've tried anyway to fix but noway, the game flickered in almost lights, especially in the black hand riku fight by the water stutter and flickered out, hope nvidia and sucker punch try to clearly fix this problem. In 4070ti I'ved no problems with lights and the game playable so smooth but the issues appeared when I changed to 5000 series

[Edocle]

Found the solution on redit ! Just roll back Nivida driver to 572.83 and problem gone, enjoy

[What The Quack]

Any solutions yet to this? Just got this game and suffering with this issue

[BlastThyName]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von What The Quack:

Any solutions yet to this? Just got this game and suffering with this issue

Literally a post above yours.