Flickering on games

[walkington]

When I'm playing the witcher 2 the game sort of has a faint flicker lines running through the screen? Why is this?

 

[M3aaaq]

Do you have vsync on? try to put it on and see if it stays there

 

[Tez77]

Hi walkington i put a post up yesterday about this some one helped me out and told me about the enabling v-sync in games but if the game is rage there is no option for this and loads of people conplaining about the games poor settings

 

[walkington]

The game is the witcher 2, so do I enable v-sync or disable it?

 

[M3aaaq]

Enable it

 

[walkington]

Yeh it's enabled still some faint flickering

 

[walkington]

am i suppose to install every disc that comes in welcome pack? should i install the driver for the graphics card?

 

[M3aaaq]

Hmmm, They are already installed.. just there incase you reinstall or something

anyways try and update the drivers from the graphics cards site (nvidia or amd)

 

[walkington]

hmm was just playing witcher 2 and it kept jumping, and then on the desktop the mouse pointer kept being jittery appearing one place then another

 

[walkington]

mouse etc seems to be fine now im browsing the net and closed the game

 

[M3aaaq]

How much fps are you getting in the witcher?

 

[walkington]

i have no idea what im getting in the witcher 2, also i was just on the desktop and the flickering appeared there too without running any games

 

[walkington]

monitors also making a screeching sound constant

 

[M3aaaq]

Hmm, you should give pcs a call about this just incase

 

[walkington]

Asus OSD does not work neither.... i've gone into display and enables OSD and when i press to record movie or take screen shot nothing happens...

 

[walkington]

high pitched noise but quite quiet still noticable comes out the sound on the monitor, screen flickers when playing games too on the witcher 2 and battlefield 3 beta.

 

[Fear]

On BF3 BETA the screen flicker i think most people are having so really i would not use that to base anything on, have you got uber sampling on witcher2 ? not played it myself but from what i have read on here from people that have is that no machine can run it that high so have you tried any other games ?

 

[Fear]

Forgot to add that high pitch sound from the screen i seem to remember hearing somebody else with that problem and i think it was a faulty screen.

 

[walkington]

tried turning uber sampling off but stick faint screen flickering, lines running up and down maybe its monitor, hopefully ill borrow my mates monitor and can see if it helps, anyone know how to use asus osd mine looks like this one

http://www.google.co.uk/imgres?q=as...1&tbnw=104&start=0&ndsp=65&ved=1t:429,r:6,s:0

i turned 'enable osd' on in the display settings but when i press the buttons to record, screen shot etc nothing happens nothing gets saved

 

[walkington]

UPDATE - FLICKERING SOLVED

Hey there, today i borrowed my friends monitor and tried that with all his cables, firstly we tried just plugging a vga cable into the monitor and the other end into the graphics card, the other end had an adapter on that was vga - dvi, so it could go into the computer, that still flickered on games.... So I used the other lead my friend had, it was a dvi - hdmi lead, i plugged the other dvi into the 2nd dvi port on the computer and the hdmi end into the pc, it worked! sound was good too, and the game didnt flicker even in ULTRA with uber sampling etc. So for some reason it had to have both in? as if i took out the vga and left the hdmi - dvi in there was no sound.

so whats needed

monitor-----gpu
vga-------dvi
hdmi-------dvi
audio in------audio in thing

my old monitor only had a vga port, sound jack and power, whereas my gpu had 2 x dvi ports, so does this explain why it didnt work before? does it need 2 wires for display? i tried different combinations with my friends monitor it needed both cables... for sound to work and display