PDA

View Full Version : Flicking Screen In Games

Ytokes
08-05-2005, 09:10 PM
Hi all

My problem is that some games that run on my pc flicker near the bottom or near the top of the screen or sometimes all the way through. Sometimes you can fix the problem by enabling the run in windowed option under video options but quite a lot of games do not have that feature. When i use the window option it some times stays fullscreen and i cant see any titlebars so i dont know whats thats about. On my last pc these games worked fine but now that ive got my new pc everythings gone weird. These are my system specs:

KM400 M2 Mother Board
AMD Anthlon 2400 @ 1800mhz
512 RAM
nVidia Geforce FX 5500 (GIGABYTE)
Barracuta 7200rpm 40GB
52x CD Drive
300W Power Supply

Some of the games that flicker are:

AOM + Titans xpansion (fixed with window option)
Commanche 4
Warcraft III
War of The Ring

Those are the only ones i can think of off the top of my head right now.
Please help guys it been really annoying.
Tone
08-05-2005, 09:26 PM
Just looking at your pc specs.. u really need to get a better power supply!! 300w just doesnt cut it! have you got all the latest drivers etc.. and what do you have your monitor refresh rate at?
bbeenn
08-05-2005, 09:33 PM
i was going to say psu as well
Random
08-06-2005, 05:19 AM
I don't think replacing the PSU with a more powerful one will solve his screen flickering, I was going to suggest he tries different resolutions and refresh rates, i've had a few monitors that noticably flicker when they are on 60hz.
acal3000
08-06-2005, 05:58 AM
I used to had a ocassional flickering some months on some games ago and reformated and I don't have the problem anymore i don't what corrected it. Maybe he should check the agp aperture in the BIOS too
Ytokes
08-06-2005, 06:52 AM
I used to had a ocassional flickering some months on some games ago and reformated and I don't have the problem anymore i don't what corrected it. Maybe he should check the agp aperture in the BIOS too

Well that was it.
I checked the agp options in the BIOS (Pheonix:P) and i just enabled the agp fastwrite and it worked perfectedly sweet!

And u leave my PSU alone as i stole that off of my older brother. (What he has like five crappy pcs rotting in his room) It does fine for a high school kid who has no job and still lives at home.