Fix for Windowed Mode / Full Screen Flashing

[Blootrix]

If you are having issues playing this game fullscreen, with a sort of constant switch between desktop and the game until you kill the task, then the reason for that is that you are atempting to play the game with your refresh rate above 60hz.

Anything above 60hz crashes this game instantly unfortunately.
You will have to reduce your monitors frequency to 60hz in order to play, which is easily done via:
Right Click Desktop
Screen Resolution
Advanced Settings
Monitor
Screen Refresh Rate - 60hz

If this helped you, please leave a comment.

[Lindsay @ The Behemoth]

Hi there, are you overclocking, or do you have a monitor that natively supports above 120 Hz?

[Blootrix]

Lindsay @ The Behemoth eredeti hozzászólása:

Hi there, are you overclocking, or do you have a monitor that natively supports above 120 Hz?

My monitor is overclocked to 100hz via the nVidia Control Panel, this is the first game I've had an issue with.
However there are other people on other forums who have had issues with both overclocked monitors, and monitors sold at 144hz.

Here are my Pc Specs if they help any.
Qnix2710LED 1440p @ 100hz (Game works fine at 60hz)
4770k @ 4.4ghz
EVGA GTX 780 FTW
16GB 1600mhz
Samsung Evo 250GB SSD.

[Nemphias]

thanks

[Lindsay @ The Behemoth]

Proxish eredeti hozzászólása:

Lindsay @ The Behemoth eredeti hozzászólása:

Hi there, are you overclocking, or do you have a monitor that natively supports above 120 Hz?

My monitor is overclocked to 100hz via the nVidia Control Panel, this is the first game I've had an issue with.
However there are other people on other forums who have had issues with both overclocked monitors, and monitors sold at 144hz.

Here are my Pc Specs if they help any.
Qnix2710LED 1440p @ 100hz (Game works fine at 60hz)
4770k @ 4.4ghz
EVGA GTX 780 FTW
16GB 1600mhz
Samsung Evo 250GB SSD.

Gotcha -- we've heard this happens with overclocked monitors, but we haven't encountered anyone with a native refresh rate of 120 or 144hz who is experiencing the issue.

We do have some high refresh rate monitors in the office and haven't reproduced it yet, so I would definitely be interested in hearing any makes and models of any natively supported high refresh rate monitors experiencing this issue.

For now, I'd suggest running the monitor at 60 Hz (as you've been doing).

Thanks!

[Blootrix]

Lindsay @ The Behemoth eredeti hozzászólása:

Proxish eredeti hozzászólása:

My monitor is overclocked to 100hz via the nVidia Control Panel, this is the first game I've had an issue with.
However there are other people on other forums who have had issues with both overclocked monitors, and monitors sold at 144hz.

Here are my Pc Specs if they help any.
Qnix2710LED 1440p @ 100hz (Game works fine at 60hz)
4770k @ 4.4ghz
EVGA GTX 780 FTW
16GB 1600mhz
Samsung Evo 250GB SSD.

Gotcha -- we've heard this happens with overclocked monitors, but we haven't encountered anyone with a native refresh rate of 120 or 144hz who is experiencing the issue.

We do have some high refresh rate monitors in the office and haven't reproduced it yet, so I would definitely be interested in hearing any makes and models of any natively supported high refresh rate monitors experiencing this issue.

For now, I'd suggest running the monitor at 60 Hz (as you've been doing).

Thanks!

I may of misread then, I was sure I'd read that there were monitors stock clocked at refresh rates above 60fps that weren't working, probably wrong if you have already tested it on non-overclocked monitors.

Either way, thanks for replying, I appreciated the time you took to do so.

[Lindsay @ The Behemoth]

Proxish eredeti hozzászólása:

Lindsay @ The Behemoth eredeti hozzászólása:

Gotcha -- we've heard this happens with overclocked monitors, but we haven't encountered anyone with a native refresh rate of 120 or 144hz who is experiencing the issue.

We do have some high refresh rate monitors in the office and haven't reproduced it yet, so I would definitely be interested in hearing any makes and models of any natively supported high refresh rate monitors experiencing this issue.

For now, I'd suggest running the monitor at 60 Hz (as you've been doing).

Thanks!

I may of misread then, I was sure I'd read that there were monitors stock clocked at refresh rates above 60fps that weren't working, probably wrong if you have already tested it on non-overclocked monitors.

Either way, thanks for replying, I appreciated the time you took to do so.

Totally possible, or there could be some other factors too -- so if there's anyone out there who has experienced this issue, please let us know!

[showka]

I think this is what is affecting me. I have a GTX 970 but keep the refresh rate to 30hz so I can connect it to a big TV. 30 Hz is low but no other game gives me these problems and the setup works well for me. Windowed mode works fine.

Castle Crashers doesn't work either- it fails to even start up. I'm not too upset as I got these games on sale but it's frustrating such a dopey bug is preventing the entire Behemoth library from working on my PC.

[Lindsay @ The Behemoth]

showka eredeti hozzászólása:

I think this is what is affecting me. I have a GTX 970 but keep the refresh rate to 30hz so I can connect it to a big TV. 30 Hz is low but no other game gives me these problems and the setup works well for me. Windowed mode works fine.

Castle Crashers doesn't work either- it fails to even start up. I'm not too upset as I got these games on sale but it's frustrating such a dopey bug is preventing the entire Behemoth library from working on my PC.

What are you using to keep your refresh rate low? I haven't seen this issue on a lower than normal refresh rate, unless your TV does not natively support 30 Hz for some reason.

What kind of behavior are you seeing? Is the game crashing to the desktop, or is it open but kind of flickering?

[showka]

@Lindsay

Thanks for the response. Both games are now working. :) Disabling my second monitor did the trick for both Battleblock Theater and Castle Crashers. Ironically I disabled the second screen because I was trying to make Lego Lord of the Rings work the other day and saw it suggested somewhere. Before this I've played close to a dozen games without encountering this issue.

In case it helps anyone else I'm going to go ahead and post my comments about my setup since I already wrote all this stuff.

I have an Nvidia Strix GeForce GTX 970 and am using the Nvidia Control Panel tool. There are settings under "Displays... Set up Multiple Displays" where it shows all the monitors I can plug in. I have a relatively old Sharp flatscreen TV which is cloned to my nice LG computer monitor.

At first games wouldn't work at all on the TV screen (got an error window trying to play Doom III- btw, kudos to any games that have a nice clear error window or message), so I had to tell the Nvidia control panel to make the Sharp TV the "clone source." The Sharp TV only has two options for refresh rate: 30Hz and 29Hz. Additionally, there is sometimes visual lag on the TV, as if vsync is off, because it only supports 1080i. I read somewhere that possibly the TV doesn't really have full HD resolution and is simulating it somehow, and the occasional lag is because it can't quite keep up with all the data the PC sends. That said in most games it's unnoticeable. So basically I have a nice graphics card, a nice monitor and an okay TV. :)

I also have a second monitor hooked up. This means altogether I have three display devices, but the desktop only sees two and I believe games see a single display device which gets the lowest common denominator between my TV and my PC screen.

Here's what I saw Battleblock Theater doing.

It starts up just fine in Windowed mode, but attempting to change the game to fullscreen causes it to flicker between pure black and the last thing I saw in Window mode forever until I exit with Alt+F4. I can hear music playing the whole time, but the game never fixes itself. Sometimes after I exit the game never starts up correctly again unless I change the config file. Maybe I'm accidentally confirming video settings after a prompt I can't see comes up.

I've noticed the config file has width and height settings of zero, which I've changed to 1920x1080. That didn't work.

Back when Castle Crashers was failing, I wouldn't see anything. I don't believe I saw an error message either.

[Lindsay @ The Behemoth]

showka eredeti hozzászólása:

@Lindsay

Thanks for the response. Both games are now working. :) Disabling my second monitor did the trick for both Battleblock Theater and Castle Crashers. Ironically I disabled the second screen because I was trying to make Lego Lord of the Rings work the other day and saw it suggested somewhere. Before this I've played close to a dozen games without encountering this issue.

In case it helps anyone else I'm going to go ahead and post my comments about my setup since I already wrote all this stuff.

I have an Nvidia Strix GeForce GTX 970 and am using the Nvidia Control Panel tool. There are settings under "Displays... Set up Multiple Displays" where it shows all the monitors I can plug in. I have a relatively old Sharp flatscreen TV which is cloned to my nice LG computer monitor.

At first games wouldn't work at all on the TV screen (got an error window trying to play Doom III- btw, kudos to any games that have a nice clear error window or message), so I had to tell the Nvidia control panel to make the Sharp TV the "clone source." The Sharp TV only has two options for refresh rate: 30Hz and 29Hz. Additionally, there is sometimes visual lag on the TV, as if vsync is off, because it only supports 1080i. I read somewhere that possibly the TV doesn't really have full HD resolution and is simulating it somehow, and the occasional lag is because it can't quite keep up with all the data the PC sends. That said in most games it's unnoticeable. So basically I have a nice graphics card, a nice monitor and an okay TV. :)

I also have a second monitor hooked up. This means altogether I have three display devices, but the desktop only sees two and I believe games see a single display device which gets the lowest common denominator between my TV and my PC screen.

Here's what I saw Battleblock Theater doing.

It starts up just fine in Windowed mode, but attempting to change the game to fullscreen causes it to flicker between pure black and the last thing I saw in Window mode forever until I exit with Alt+F4. I can hear music playing the whole time, but the game never fixes itself. Sometimes after I exit the game never starts up correctly again unless I change the config file. Maybe I'm accidentally confirming video settings after a prompt I can't see comes up.

I've noticed the config file has width and height settings of zero, which I've changed to 1920x1080. That didn't work.

Back when Castle Crashers was failing, I wouldn't see anything. I don't believe I saw an error message either.

Wow, thanks for the super detailed response. I'm going to think about this one -- it is a complex set up, so there are a lot of factors here to consider.

We have specifically heard of the Nvidia Control Panel tool causing problems like this in the past, though. I forget -- have you tried disabling this or uninstalling/reinstalling yet? THANKS MUCH.

[HeavySitter]

♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥! I have been dealing with this for months now and could not find an answer.
THANK YOU!

I use a 4K (Native Resolution) TV as my primary monitor with Windows 10 and played with a bunch of settings to no avail. Unless I set my resolution to 4K, which is a ridiculous resolution without scaling on Windows 10 and even then some windows will not scale properly so you have to get a microscope to read them, my Steam Store videos would flicker and freeze with the audio playing in the background. I would have to press Escape or use Task Manager to kill the process.

I checked the refresh rate for my monitor properties and it was set to 60Hz, so I dropped it to 59Hz to test. Not exactly what you said would fix it, but it got me the resolution I desired. I can now view Steam Store videos on my 4K TV using a 1920x1080 resolution @59Hz without screen flickering.

Thank you, again!