Second/Third Monitor Flickering

[air buddy]

I have had a problem since using this program that my second and third monitors will have bars flickering on the screen at seemingly random intervals. The bars will appear despite me being fullscreen in a game (on my main monitor) and having windows opened on my 2nd/3rd. I have gone through a few threads with similar problems but none of the fixes I've tried have solved the issue. This doesn't occur when wallpaper engine isnt running.

Specs:
Windows 10 Home 64-bit
Intel Core i7 @ 3.7 GHz
16GB 1333 MHz RAM
ASRock Z370 IB-R mobo
ZOTAC 4095MB NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080
1TB SSD

Monitors:
Main: BenQ EX3200R (1920x1080 @ 144Hz)
Second/Third: LG 22MP56 (1920x1080 @ 60Hz)

[Biohazard]

Can you describe what you tried already?

Because otherwise we might end up suggesting the same things. It's a fundamental driver or hardware issue, Wallpaper Engine is just causing it to surface for you by i.e. making Windows inevitably refresh the monitors more frequently because the wallpaper is animated. Or merely because you chose a video wallpaper and there is a problem with your video decoding hardware - so that it merely being in use makes the graphics card glitch.

Also, are all monitors connected to the RTX? Which wallpapers did you select? Did you ensure no background overlay hacks could be interfering with the graphics card like Nvidia Share? Is the card overclocked?

[air buddy]

Originally posted by Biohazard:

Can you describe what you tried already?

Because otherwise we might end up suggesting the same things. It's a fundamental driver or hardware issue, Wallpaper Engine is just causing it to surface for you by i.e. making Windows inevitably refresh the monitors more frequently because the wallpaper is animated. Or merely because you chose a video wallpaper and there is a problem with your video decoding hardware - so that it merely being in use makes the graphics card glitch.

Also, are all monitors connected to the RTX? Which wallpapers did you select? Did you ensure no background overlay hacks could be interfering with the graphics card like Nvidia Share? Is the card overclocked?

Sure thing. The first thing that I tried was messing with the settings purely inside of wallpaper engine that solved similar problems for others. I turned off video hardware acceleration (no effect), tried a lot of different quality settings (no effect). I assumed it could be a problem with the drivers I have installed rather than the program itself because a lot of other solution videos I watched had different problems-- usually the entire wallpaper flickering instead of just thin horizontal bars.

I probably should've mentioned these in the original post but I forgot:
-I am on an essentially new computer. I've only had it around a month so theres not a whole lot installed on it.
-All three monitors are connected to the GPU.
-Nothing on the computer is overclocked.
-I am currently on the standard GeForce game ready driver v. 417.35

By NVIDIA share do you mean the in-game overlay? I do not use it but it was turned on in GeForce Experience. I turned it off but the problem is still persisting.

The problem seems to get worse/more frequent when im playing games on the BenQ (main) monitor in fullscreen, namely league of legends.

[air buddy]

Forgot to add, this is the wallpaper im using:
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1288753196
Tried a few different ones and got the same problem so I don't think the wallpaper is the problem.

[Biohazard]

Thanks for the infos. I can see a number of complaints about flickering on the Nvidia forums actually https://forums.geforce.com/default/board/33/geforce-drivers/ one of them said it was g-sync related for them. Does either monitor have g-sync or freesync? In any case, try to turn it off.

Also, Nvidia released a newer driver already that specifically mentions flickering: https://forums.geforce.com/default/topic/1095541/geforce-drivers/announcing-geforce-hotfix-driver-417-75-released-1-22-19-/ Try to use that even if you don't have g-sync.

Otherwise see what happens if all monitors run on 60Hz. Of course that's not a permanent solution, but mixing different refresh rates, especially high and low ones, is something Nvidia seems to have botched up before.

Also try different monitor cables. It's common that some (cheap) cables cause flickering on high refresh rates.

[air buddy]

I updated to the driver you listed and played a few different games--no flickers have appeared so far. Thank you for communicating so much so often, never seen a dev been so active in troubleshooting for the community!

[SaanYo]

i have noticed this only happens when sharing the screen/recording