Screen Flickering

[Lucius]

The screen is constantly flickering and there is no vsynch option to help with this problem. Does anyone have a solution to this problem.

[Professor Brian ♥♥♥♥]

First thing, I'd recommend reinstalling the game to see if it's an install problem. Do you have the problem with other games? I found the game wouldn't load until I updated my GPU drivers, so it could be related to that. Aside from that, what graphics settings and resolution are you running at?

[DarkPh4]

Enable Vsync in your graphic card control panel.

[Lucius]

Originally posted by Proud mother of 2:

First thing, I'd recommend reinstalling the game to see if it's an install problem. Do you have the problem with other games? I found the game wouldn't load until I updated my GPU drivers, so it could be related to that. Aside from that, what graphics settings and resolution are you running at?

The screen flickering happens almost all of my games but they usually have a vsynch option to get rid of the flickering but not this one

[Professor Brian ♥♥♥♥]

In that case, I would do as DarkPH4 said and do it in your graphics card control panel

[BLaZiNgSPEED]

I know the reason for this. It's most likely your DisplayPort/HDMI Cable!

I had problems with flickering on my Samsung U28E590 4K monitor at 1600x1200 and 640x480 resolutions using the DisplayPort cable that came with it.

For months I have been struggling to find a solution to this.Turns out the Samsung DisplayPort cable that came with my U28E590 4K monitor was indeed crap and of poor quality. Initially I panicked thinking it might be my monitor or graphics card that was faulty. Thank God that wasn't the case!

My new Accell B142C-007B DisplayPort cable which arrived on the 8th of January from Amazon USA has resolved this issue and I've not had the flickering ever since for over a month now. https://www.amazon.com/Accell-DisplayPort-Cable-Locking-Latches/dp/B0098HVZBE

And these issues completely went away immediately and the flickering never emerged for the last 1 month on all of these resolutions such as 640x480, 1600x1200 or 2560x1440!

It's not that ant of the games are old or the GPU drivers were bad, it was simply a bad DisplayPort cable! So much troubleshooting over simply a bad cable! New cable fixed this issue for good.

If anyone else in future has the same black screen flickering issue just let them know to replace their monitor cable, that's it! I hope this helps.

[Lucius]

Originally posted by BLaZiNgSPEED:

I know the reason for this. It's most likely your DisplayPort/HDMI Cable!

I had problems with flickering on my Samsung U28E590 4K monitor at 1600x1200 and 640x480 resolutions using the DisplayPort cable that came with it.

For months I have been struggling to find a solution to this.Turns out the Samsung DisplayPort cable that came with my U28E590 4K monitor was indeed crap and of poor quality. Initially I panicked thinking it might be my monitor or graphics card that was faulty. Thank God that wasn't the case!

My new Accell B142C-007B DisplayPort cable which arrived on the 8th of January from Amazon USA has resolved this issue and I've not had the flickering ever since for over a month now. https://www.amazon.com/Accell-DisplayPort-Cable-Locking-Latches/dp/B0098HVZBE

And these issues completely went away immediately and the flickering never emerged for the last 1 month on all of these resolutions such as 640x480, 1600x1200 or 2560x1440!

It's not that ant of the games are old or the GPU drivers were bad, it was simply a bad DisplayPort cable! So much troubleshooting over simply a bad cable! New cable fixed this issue for good.

If anyone else in future has the same black screen flickering issue just let them know to replace their monitor cable, that's it! I hope this helps.

Thank You so much!

[BLaZiNgSPEED]

Originally posted by CensedLettuce67:

Originally posted by BLaZiNgSPEED:

I know the reason for this. It's most likely your DisplayPort/HDMI Cable!

I had problems with flickering on my Samsung U28E590 4K monitor at 1600x1200 and 640x480 resolutions using the DisplayPort cable that came with it.

For months I have been struggling to find a solution to this.Turns out the Samsung DisplayPort cable that came with my U28E590 4K monitor was indeed crap and of poor quality. Initially I panicked thinking it might be my monitor or graphics card that was faulty. Thank God that wasn't the case!

My new Accell B142C-007B DisplayPort cable which arrived on the 8th of January from Amazon USA has resolved this issue and I've not had the flickering ever since for over a month now. https://www.amazon.com/Accell-DisplayPort-Cable-Locking-Latches/dp/B0098HVZBE

And these issues completely went away immediately and the flickering never emerged for the last 1 month on all of these resolutions such as 640x480, 1600x1200 or 2560x1440!

It's not that ant of the games are old or the GPU drivers were bad, it was simply a bad DisplayPort cable! So much troubleshooting over simply a bad cable! New cable fixed this issue for good.

If anyone else in future has the same black screen flickering issue just let them know to replace their monitor cable, that's it! I hope this helps.

Thank You so much!

I hope this is helpful. However, after reading your post again, If the flickering issue you mention is a V-Sync issue then replacing the cable would not be helpful in this case.

My problem that I had was a flickering issue independent on whether the V-Sync was turned on or off. It's a very special type of flickering where the screen would go corrupt with intermittent display turning on and off with lines forming on the screen.

This was an issue that only happened on 640x480, 1600x1200 or 2560x1440 resolutions all others were fine. In my case replacing the DisplayPort cable with a Certified DisplayPort cabled solved the issue.

If your case is simply a matter of V-Sync then you should force V-Sync on from your Nvidia Control Panel by adding the game to the profile list and forcing it to on. This would apply for AMD as well. If the flickering that I mention persists after that then it's either the cable, monitor or graphics card that's the issue.

[tayfun333333]

i tryed 2 diffrent screens its not my screen i had the same problem with aoe3 but i fixed it by turning vsynch on but i dont know how to turn it on in just cause i use a aspire 15 laptop at the moment and i have no idea how to Enable Vsync in my graphic card control panel.

[Deji 5H4D]

try disabling all overlays (Steam, Discord etc etc) I found this fix for Star Wars Battlefront II 2005

[NIghtslayer8187]

I am playing this game in a laptop with Windows 10.I have no additional graphics card. I don't have this problem with other games. Please help me on this.

[Badshooter 270]

Adding /windowed to the launch options text field fixed it for me with my integrated graphics card. Now VSYNC is applied and it stopped.