CS:GO Screen flickering issue during menuing as well as in game

[blargg]

I'm having an issue and I'm looking for answers. When in CS:GO menu to choose a game (play, community servers, etc) AND in game on *any* map I am experiencing flickering. For a fraction of a second will be white or black (always horizontal) box will be drawn on the screen, it's often an inch or 1/2 inch "block" that appears, stretching across the entire screen. It will flicker very fast almost as if a menu or something was trying to open for just a fraction of a second. This happens regardless of what's happening on the screen and there's no one thing I can do to reproduce it, but it is reliably reproducible. It happens in every single game session.

Rough system specs:
Windows 10
Asus Sabertooth Z97 Mark 2 motherboard
1200 W Thermaltake PSU
Intel i7 4770K 3.5 GHz processor (not overclocked)
Patriot 8 GB DDR3 RAM (x4)
XFX AMD Radeon R9 Fury X GPU (not overclocked)
BenQ XL2430T monitor
BenQ monitor settings: In-game display profile: "CS GO", 1080 x 1920 resolution, 144 Hz


This is the troubleshooting I've done thus far, NOTHING has resolved the issue:

- I've tried reinstalling and updating to BenQ's most recent display pilot software, v2.22
- I've tried rolling back, reinstalling, and updating to the most recent GPU drivers for my R9 Fury X GPU
- I've tried updating my motherboard's BIOS
- I've tried using several different display port cables, and HDMI, to no effect
- The issue occurs on ANY display profile setting (I have not set up a custom profile configuration, but all of the FPS defaults that I've used (FPS1, FPS2, CSGO etc) experience the issue.)
- I've tried to reproduce this problem in other games (specifically Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Seige and Arma III) and the issue does not occur, in fact the monitor preforms beautifully in that game!
- I tried Verifying the game cache, and went so far as to reinstall the game, this did not resolve the issue.
- I noticed that the issue happens in other Source engine games, I can reproduce the problem in TF2, it's exactly the same.
- The issue occurs on other monitors (I tried to reproduce the problem on my Asus VS247H 60 Hz monitor and I can reproduce the problem). I can also reproduce the problem on the BenQ monitor running at 60, 120 and 144 Hz
- There is no change I can make on my graphics card's settings to resolve the issue in the AMD Radeon Control Panel settings
- Enabling V-Sync via in-game CS:GO settings fixes the issue! This leads me to believe it's something related to frame buffering, I -really- don't want to use V-sync, so I need this fixed!
- Running csgo.exe in Compatability mode for Windows 8 resolves the issue, but the problem with doing this is that there's definitely a performance drop when running it like this...

Here's a video of the issue: https://youtu.be/cb6p6hDGgF4 (it happens twice, once at :57 and again at around 1:24)

Is anyone else experiencing this? Anyone have any ideas how to fix it? I've tried about everything I can think of.

[★ Moonlight ★]

I know how to fix it. Get an Nvidia

[Cloudy Tulip リタリン]

Originally posted by Nope:

I know how to fix it. Get an Nvidia

nivida has driver problems always

[Ankarin]

Well if you said running it in windows 8 mode fixes it, perhaps you have a corruption in windows caused by the upgrade or otherwise. You could try reinstalling a fresh install of windows 10 and getting all the latest drivers from the manufacture sites.

[blargg]

Haven't tried this yet on on my ASUS GeForce GTX 780 (in the process of a PC build involving that card and upgraded my main computer to the Fury X) but I noticed this happened shortly after the most recent update.

[Ankarin]

Originally posted by Miroan EST:

Originally posted by Nope:

I know how to fix it. Get an Nvidia

nivida has driver problems always

Barely, the last problem was only a few weeks back which was quickly fixed and the driver pulled from the website. The last issue before that was like over a year.

[blargg]

Originally posted by 㹪Ankarin:

Well if you said running it in windows 8 mode fixes it, perhaps you have a corruption in windows caused by the upgrade or otherwise. You could try reinstalling a fresh install of windows 10 and getting all the latest drivers from the manufacture sites.

funny you mention this... I actually recently re-installed Windows 10 recently for a different reason (about a week ago actually), so this is a relatively fresh install.

The problem with running in Windows 8 mode is that for whatever reason the game runs sluggishly (no frame drops, but the game just is not as responsive as running in windows 10 natively...)

I'm also using the most recent drivers for the AMD GPU, but the problem persisted on the old drivers, too... I opened a ticket with AMD about it but haven't gotten a response from them yet. I also asked BenQ about it but obviously the monitor isn't the issue.

[Cloudy Tulip リタリン]

Originally posted by 㹪Ankarin:

Originally posted by Miroan EST:

nivida has driver problems always

Barely, the last problem was only a few weeks back which was quickly fixed and the driver pulled from the website. The last issue before that was like over a year.

Lol? The have always these problems.the few weeks back problem was major people wont even get to the computers coz of these huge blackscreens and bluescreens
I have been using amd since 2015 no problems at all not even one driver crash

[Ankarin]

Originally posted by blarGG:

Originally posted by 㹪Ankarin:

Well if you said running it in windows 8 mode fixes it, perhaps you have a corruption in windows caused by the upgrade or otherwise. You could try reinstalling a fresh install of windows 10 and getting all the latest drivers from the manufacture sites.

funny you mention this... I actually recently re-installed Windows 10 recently for a different reason (about a week ago actually), so this is a relatively fresh install.

The problem with running in Windows 8 mode is that for whatever reason the game runs sluggishly (no frame drops, but the game just is not as responsive as running in windows 10 natively...)

Did it happen before this reinstall of windows 10? If not then perhaps you need a another reinstall ;)

As you stated, it is an issue with your system in source engine games, which is quite strange. Perhaps disable FreeSYNC if you have it.

[blargg]

Originally posted by 㹪Ankarin:

Originally posted by blarGG:

funny you mention this... I actually recently re-installed Windows 10 recently for a different reason (about a week ago actually), so this is a relatively fresh install.

The problem with running in Windows 8 mode is that for whatever reason the game runs sluggishly (no frame drops, but the game just is not as responsive as running in windows 10 natively...)

Did it happen before this reinstall of windows 10? If not then perhaps you need a another reinstall ;)

As you stated, it is an issue with your system in source engine games, which is quite strange. Perhaps disable FreeSYNC if you have it.

The BenQ monitor I have doesn't support it, but considering the fact that VSync fixes the issue when enabling it in CS:GO Video settings makes me think that perhaps getting a Freesync monitor would fix it, but that's a costly troubleshooting step.

I haven't tried re-REinstalling Winders though...

[Ankarin]

Originally posted by blarGG:

Originally posted by 㹪Ankarin:

Did it happen before this reinstall of windows 10? If not then perhaps you need a another reinstall ;)

As you stated, it is an issue with your system in source engine games, which is quite strange. Perhaps disable FreeSYNC if you have it.

The BenQ monitor I have doesn't support it, but considering the fact that VSync fixes the issue when enabling it in CS:GO Video settings makes me think that perhaps getting a Freesync monitor would fix it, but that's a costly troubleshooting step.

Hmmm. Well only solution that I can honestly think of is, you can create a partition on your harddrive and install a fresh copy of windows to it just as a test. If that doesn't work you can simply delete the partition and keep working on the problem on your current install.

Either that or try your Nvidia GPU, making sure to use DDU (Display Driver Uninstaller) in safemode to correctly remove the AMD drivers.

[Cloudy Tulip リタリン]

Is it only with cs?

[Ankarin]

Originally posted by Miroan EST:

Is it only with cs?

He said it is in cs and other source games such as tf2.

[blargg]

I don't remember having this kind of issue with the GTX 780, I definitely would have noticed something like this. The game worked fine on Win10 with that card, even after the most recent update. It makes me think that the problem has to do with the GPU drivers, but I can't seem to resolve it myself. The card is relatively new, but I can't seem to find anyone who is complaining about the same thing in the AMD world. It's odd because I don't have any issues with other game engines.

This is the only Steam forum thread I can find that sounds similar, but this was years ago, I think it'sa different problem but I'm not sure: http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2722434

[Ankarin]

Boot into safemode and use DDU(Display driver uninstaller) and make sure you select AMD before clicking go. Then once you are back into windows Install the latest driver and try again.

[blargg]

Originally posted by 㹪Ankarin:

Boot into safemode and use DDU(Display driver uninstaller) and make sure you select AMD before clicking go. Then once you are back into windows Install the latest driver and try again.

Good idea... I just tried this, and uninstalled the nVidia drivers for good measure, in addition to the AMD drivers, and it didn't resolve the issue.

Man, this is really odd.