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SkippyRay Feb 26, 2019 @ 9:28am
Wallpaper Engine cause flickering
Ok had some serious flicker issues and finally narrowed it down to WE.. I think it is some of the wallpapers and how they act, as I have never had this issue before I tried a certain one..Just wondering if anyone else had this problem. I shut down WE and all issues went away. Loaded some old papers and still no issue. Could someone explain how a very similar paper could do this vs another....I kinda understand but not fully.... Anyone else have this issue?
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Biohazard  [developer] Feb 26, 2019 @ 9:33am 
What flickers exactly? I'm assuming you mean your entire screen and not something only inside Wallpaper Engine.

Wallpaper Engine uses your graphics card for 3D or video acceleration depending on the wallpaper. The graphics card and its driver must not be broken, any issue with those will lead to global problems like flickering as soon as any application activates that particular part of your graphics card.

For example, if it only happens with video wallpapers but not scenes or not in games in general then chances are it's related to the video decoder of your card.
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SkippyRay Feb 26, 2019 @ 3:05pm 
yeah just the screen running a 2080 fe with latest driver. Have had zero issue since changing the paper i was using ...oh well
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SkippyRay Mar 10, 2019 @ 4:26pm 
ok after testing this Wallpaper Engine def is the reason for flickering or screen black out.. It only occurs with certain wallpapers that are active. Not sure why.. But each time it happens i have to uninstall nvidia driver and reinstall. just saying..
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Biohazard  [developer] Mar 10, 2019 @ 4:36pm 
Different wallpapers need different parts from your graphics card and driver, like I said, for example: only video wallpapers will activate your video decoder hardware. So if this part of the card or driver has such a problem, then video wallpapers would always lead to the issue since their whole point is fast video playback.

If you check the nvidia geforce forums, their latest drivers and especially on RTX cards are just not good yet either. So chances are it's a driver issue and not something with the hardware so nvidia will eventually be able to fix it.
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SkippyRay Mar 29, 2019 @ 4:49pm 
figured it out was actually Netflix app from windows store...weird thanks
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