Screen flickering issues; persistent through driver reinstalls

[Jakal, Lady kisser]

So for the last couple weeks i've noticed a problem. Whenever i have a game in steam running fullscreen, there's issues with tearing at the bottom of the screen going on. so far i've only been able to verify 1: it happens to any steam game that's running full-screen and 2: the tearing only covers the area of the screen that's occupied by the taskbar normally. non-steam related games do not have the issue, so it's not an issue with those games.

Has anyone else seen this problem? were they able to isolate it to windows or the steam client being to blame, and if so did they find a solution? it's friggin' annoying.

[Jakal, Lady kisser]

version is now 23H2 build 22631.2428, everything went smoothly fortunately, tested on darktide, then a game not on steam, screen tearing now present on both games so at least it's gotten consistent now.

nvidia drivers updated, tearing issue was still present then i decided nvidia probably screwed things up, so drivers from uninstalled from windows settings and cold installed. EDIT: all nvidia drivers and programs removed, latest drivers only installed. video issues are still present.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

Do you have a different screen you could test this out on. Some screens are juat terrible no matter what settings you change

[_I_]

try the display on another pc
it may be bad backlight, use its osd menu and turn it down to 75% see if that helps

[Dr.Shadowds 🐉]

It's hard to say exactly what issue could be, as other two pointed out, use another display like tv, or something see if issue happens, if it still does then this points to cable issue need to replace, or a video driver issue.

If you somehow don't have tv, or another monitor to test, but you have at least a another device like phone, or tablet, you can record your screen, send it to your pohne, or tablet, and if you don't see the issue happening, then this suggest display, or cable problem.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

Yes I wouldn't rule out GPU Driver because latest is not always the best.

For many systems I still using NVIDIA 532.03 as it's very stable and I'm not running the most recently released games that would perhaps benefit from a newer driver version.

[emoticorpse]

Check this thread https://www.reddit.com/r/ZephyrusG14/comments/xjlcnq/taskbar_flashing_when_clicking_in_game/

One guy in there says "Deleting the registry entry HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop\HungAppTimeout and rebooting fixed it for all programs!"

[Bad 💀 Motha]

Before you go doing anything like that let's see if it's a Win11 Taskbar issue. It has for some reason proven to be a problem for many users regardless of Win11 build or GPU Driver Version.

Launch Task Manager and minimize it.

Launch Steam

Launch Steam Game
As soon as you do this, X out the Steam window. It will auto minimize to tray.

Once game loads up into its main menu, ALT+TAB over to Task Manager and go to Details,right click EXPLORER, end process. If see more then one instance of explorer.exe, end all of them.

Now ALT+TAB back to the game and dive into some gameplay and see how it does without explorer (and thus the Taskbar) running

To get your OS Desktop loaded back again, later on, switch back to Task Manager and click File > New Process > Tick box for elevated privileges, type Explorer.exe and click OK

[Jakal, Lady kisser]

โพสต์ดั้งเดิมโดย Bad 💀 Motha:

Before you go doing anything like that let's see if it's a Win11 Taskbar issue. It has for some reason proven to be a problem for many users regardless of Win11 build or GPU Driver Version.

Launch Task Manager and minimize it.

Launch Steam

Launch Steam Game
As soon as you do this, X out the Steam window. It will auto minimize to tray.

Once game loads up into its main menu, ALT+TAB over to Task Manager and go to Details,right click EXPLORER, end process. If see more then one instance of explorer.exe, end all of them.

Now ALT+TAB back to the game and dive into some gameplay and see how it does without explorer (and thus the Taskbar) running

To get your OS Desktop loaded back again, later on, switch back to Task Manager and click File > New Process > Tick box for elevated privileges, type Explorer.exe and click OK

turned off explorer, flickering at the bottom of the screen was still present.

not going to just dive into the registry blind, but the link says there was a temp fix that led them to the registry issue, i'll try that first and if it seems to clear the issue on multiple games i test it with i'll accept i have to get into the registry again like some kind of vagrant.

again, than you all for your attention on this matter.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

Then it's most likely issue with GPU card, Driver, Display or Cable

[Jakal, Lady kisser]

โพสต์ดั้งเดิมโดย Bad 💀 Motha:

Then it's most likely issue with GPU card, Driver, Display or Cable

at this point, i'm inclined to believe you but i'm using a prebuilt laptop and i'm out of the service area so that's going to have to be a mystery to me until i can afford paying for a repair shop to service whatever is wrong with it.

[_I_]

grab all the drivers from the laptop mfg site for that model

and update bios

[Bad 💀 Motha]

This is a Laptop? Why didn't you state that from the very beginning
Why do people GAME on Laptops, as you should know full well those often times don't last you many years like a Desktop would.

[Jakal, Lady kisser]

โพสต์ดั้งเดิมโดย Bad 💀 Motha:

This is a Laptop? Why didn't you state that from the very beginning
Why do people GAME on Laptops, as you should know full well those often times don't last you many years like a Desktop would.

budgetary issues. couldn't afford the components for a desktop, and the laptop was in clearance.