Help with flickering squares on lcd

[johnno74]

Whatever it is, its not your monitor or refresh rate. Or your monitor driver. Analog or digital (dvi) doesn't matter either. Your monitor is a very dumb device, it doesn't actually "draw" anything, it just displays an image 50 (or 65, or whatever your refresh rate) times a second.

The acutal "drawing" is done by your video card. It sounds to me like either your video card drivers or your video settings (AA etc) are causing the problem. Ensure your video card drivers are up to date... If you are using nhancer or other video tweaker (BTW what video card make - ATI or nvidia?) then reset the profile for SH3 to default.

[bert8for3]

@johnno74. Tks, I'll look at that.

[Schwuppes]

You're not overclocking are you?

[bert8for3]

Originally Posted by Schwuppes

You're not overclocking are you?

No, but I'm checking GPU overheating as a possibility. I've installed SensorsView which I think shows the GPU as "Aux", in which case it shows about 32 deg C at standstill. But the temp monitor in Catalyst was showing 51 at standstill, which would be too high I believe. However, I'm not sure which one is right. And of crse it's operating temp that really matters. Trouble is with the res fix on, I can't AltTab out of game to see the operating temp. Even uninstalling the res fix, I still can't AltTab out.

Last night, I did try taking the side panel off the case and blew a bedroom fan directly on the GPU. Not surprisingly with that kind of airflow, the standstill temps went down to about 26 deg in SensorsView and 41 in Catalyst. But in-game it was still the same, UNTIL ... lo and behold when the sun went below the horizon, it suddenly stopped and things were normal. So it seems to be linked to the sun (low on the horizon only?), but my present theory is that that's a trigger or symptomatic and that the real cause may be overheating. Continuing the detective (Clouseau) work, although RL interfering weekdays. Tks for yr reply.

[onelifecrisis]

I get this whenever the weather is about to change. It's always happened to me. There's a relatively brief period between weather types (maybe 10 minutes at 1x TC - I never timed it, though) where the sky flickers. Then the weather "finishes" changing, and it goes away. It only happens when the weather is changing in such a way that affects the clouds e.g. going from no cloud to overcast.

Could this be the same problem you're having? I though it was a stock bug.

[bert8for3]

Originally Posted by onelifecrisis

I get this whenever the weather is about to change. It's always happened to me. There's a relatively brief period between weather types (maybe 10 minutes at 1x TC - I never timed it, though) where the sky flickers. Then the weather "finishes" changing, and it goes away. It only happens when the weather is changing in such a way that affects the clouds e.g. going from no cloud to overcast.

Could this be the same problem you're having? I though it was a stock bug.

I don't think I've had that, or at least I've never noticed it (which would be more likely). But trying to recall times I've been at 1x with changeable weather, I don't recall it. This seems to be different, i.e. I'm not noticing any actual or impending weather change but I'll stay in 1x for a while now to see if it's going to change. What had me dialing 911 was that I'd never had this before, and no system or game changes. Maybe I won't see it again, although I think for good measure I'm going to pop in a couple of extra case fans for better cooling.