Annoying flicker when returning to desktop
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From: Chuckg on 5 Sep 2006 16:40 OK, the system I have is: Mach Speed Viper MK8-939A motherboard (latest drivers installed, latest BIOS flashed) AMD64 X-2 4800+ processor (latest drivers & AMD dual-core optimizer installed) Windows XP (32-bit) SP2 (fully updated) Radeon x1600 Pro (PCI-Express 16x) (Catalyst v6.8 & Control Center installed) The Windows install is fresh and new, as is the video card and motherboard. For the first couple of days, it worked fine, but now It's picked up an annoying habit. Nothing major, just annoying. The habit is this: when coming out of a fullscreen 3-D game such as KOTOR or KOTOR II, it'll go a few seconds and then I'll get a brief flash of my cursor turning into an hourglass, and then *boom*, the screen goes black for a second or so. Even more annoying, it also does this a few seconds into KOTOR II cutscenes -- I don't mean the camvator ones, I mean the ones where it cuts to FMV. The disk access and the flicker to black, that is. Did I tick some setting that wasn't supposed to be ticked, and if so, can I untick it? Note: auto-detect hardware is already turned off in Catalyst Control Center. -- Chuckg
From: Chuckg on 6 Sep 2006 00:50 Figured it out, mostly. It's the damn overlock settings. The thing keeps turning them off whenever I leave fullscreen 3D mode, even for a moment or a cutscene, with the accompanying flicker. I verified this by yanking Catalyst Control Center and instaling ATI Tray Tools with overclocking disabled. It worked, but now I have minor annoyances re: my fullscreen profile and gamma correction. Here's hoping when I reinstall Control Center, it remembers to keep overclocking off. Otherwise, how do you disable ATI overclocking? -- Chuckg
From: Chuckg on 6 Sep 2006 23:53 Chuckg wrote: > Figured it out, mostly. > > It's the damn overlock settings. The thing keeps turning them off > whenever I leave fullscreen 3D mode, even for a moment or a cutscene, > with the accompanying flicker. .... and now the flicker is back, dammit, even with the overclocking disabled. It's like clockwork -- 2-3 seconds after returning to desktop or windowed mode from fullscreen mode, *BAM*, temporary blackout. It's *really* annoying. Does anybody know HTF to fix this? -- Chuckg
From: First of One on 7 Sep 2006 17:36 Does this flicker afflict both D3D and OpenGL applications, or just D3D. And are you running different gamma or color-vibrance settings for desktop and full-screen 3D? -- "War is the continuation of politics by other means. It can therefore be said that politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed." "Chuckg" <glasgowc1(a)gmail.com> wrote in message news:1157601209.175840.286790(a)i42g2000cwa.googlegroups.com... > Chuckg wrote: >> Figured it out, mostly. >> >> It's the damn overlock settings. The thing keeps turning them off >> whenever I leave fullscreen 3D mode, even for a moment or a cutscene, >> with the accompanying flicker. > > ... and now the flicker is back, dammit, even with the overclocking > disabled. > > It's like clockwork -- 2-3 seconds after returning to desktop or > windowed mode from fullscreen mode, *BAM*, temporary blackout. > > It's *really* annoying. Does anybody know HTF to fix this? > > -- > Chuckg >
From: Chuckg on 8 Sep 2006 00:03
First of One wrote: > Does this flicker afflict both D3D and OpenGL applications, or just D3D. It does it both for Doom 3 in fullscreen mode and KOTOR II, so yes. > And are you running different gamma or color-vibrance settings for desktop > and full-screen 3D? The gamma settings between fullscreen 3D and desktop are different. Re: D3D, I have DirectX 9.0c installed, it came with the original XP SP2 install. -- Chuckg |