Strange UI Flickering and Ghosting

[2chaotic]

After scouring the net and trying everything I can think of, wondering if anyone here has encountered this issue. While trying to run Rimworld in fullscreen on a cloned monitor, after opening the game for 10-15 seconds or shortly after alt-tabbing into it, all the UI menus begin flicking dozens of times a second, and any open menus start to ghost on the screen, blocking the view of anything behind it even after hitting the close button.

I'm trying to run it fullscreen on a cloned monitor to use Rimworld with a two PC streaming setup. While the game looks perfectly fine with no flickering on the capture card on the second PC weirdly, the game is unplayable with the flickering on the main PC. If I try to run in windowed mode (not borderless), the game seems to work fine, but that causes issues with formatting in OBS.

I've disabled all mods, validated the game files, reinstalled the game, disabled fullscreen optimizations, tried two different graphics drivers, made sure my capture card is updated, windows updated, different resolutions, different refresh rates, and nothing seems to stop the intense flickering/ghosting while having the monitor cloned. IF I try to run it without the monitor cloned, it works just fine. It's only when I try to run Rimworld in borderless fullscreen/exclusive fullscreen with the screen cloned, that the flickering/ghosting appears. It's impossible to try to stream it in this state with my setup, so wondering if anyone had any suggestions...

[Tumble Trash᠌ ⁧⁧ Official]

My game UI seems to flicker while time is increased, and some of my colonist disappeared, they where there, but not their sprites

[Idiot Sandwich]

Originally posted by TB6 ☭Beef Chungus☭:

My game UI seems to flicker while time is increased, and some of my colonist disappeared, they where there, but not their sprites

did yall find a fix? Its happened to me twice this month.... the thing is.. if i disable all mods and play the same save... it still flickers, but a new save with all the mods doesn't flicker.

It's like the save corrupts or something... help!

[SCORP]

Same here.

[Kurisu]

Originally posted by SCORP:

Same here.

I had a look around and turns out the game doesn't like G-sync or freesync, I turned off G-Sync and it fixed it.

[MaysaChan]

Originally posted by  Kurisu :

Originally posted by SCORP:

Same here.

I had a look around and turns out the game doesn't like G-sync or freesync, I turned off G-Sync and it fixed it.

How??

[Kasamplanka]

just had this happen to me too. it seemed to be (not sure) a caravan bug where they would arrive but on world map the caravan still existed. had to manually tell it to enter, and the gui flickering stopped...

[Noeat]

switch to dev mode and open debug console
u will probably see spam of error msg
pause game, read that error what is still spammed and find what happens

[Noeat]

Originally posted by TB6 ☭Beef Chungus☭:

My game UI seems to flicker while time is increased, and some of my colonist disappeared, they where there, but not their sprites

do u use Z levels mod? or any mod what change ground / floors.. or so?
if it is by Z levels, then u have gap in ground (not sure if it can be issue with combo Z levels and Trade Spot ..what make there gap.. but ye, when u make underground lvl, then u need be carefull and dont let roof fall.. because roofs are synchronized with floors... thats why u see how your pawn disappear, because he isnt in that lvl, he fall down)

[Kalshue]

Originally posted by Kasamplanka:

just had this happen to me too. it seemed to be (not sure) a caravan bug where they would arrive but on world map the caravan still existed. had to manually tell it to enter, and the gui flickering stopped...

I had the same caravan bug and the flickering UI so I can, somehow, confirm these two are related. The log errors talked about a index out of range, probably trying to do something with that caravan but since it's empty it throws an error...

[Surge Badger]

Originally posted by Kurisu:

Originally posted by SCORP:

Same here.

I had a look around and turns out the game doesn't like G-sync or freesync, I turned off G-Sync and it fixed it.

Great response. I was having the same issue and disabling G-sync worked straight away.

Thanks!

[altomcorp]

had same problem just started yesterday found a possible fix worked for me. delete all storage zones and replace same spot dose not matter. this fixed it for me, strange I know.

[Jixxor]

Originally posted by Kurisu:

Originally posted by SCORP:

Same here.

I had a look around and turns out the game doesn't like G-sync or freesync, I turned off G-Sync and it fixed it.

I know this is 2 years old but this was driving me crazy and turning off G-sync did indeed fix it immediately. Tyvm

[Zaver]

Originally posted by altomcorp:

had same problem just started yesterday found a possible fix worked for me. delete all storage zones and replace same spot dose not matter. this fixed it for me, strange I know.

Coming in in two years laters. This did in fact work for me for some reason.