Greetings all,

Been a long while since I spent many a happy hour overclocking my Barton core mobile 2500 chip (yes...I'm old!)

These days I run a lounge PC which is mostly used by the kids for gaming and for movies etc on an evening.

For a while I 've been having screen flickering issues with my MSI 7850 2GB card.

This only happens in 2D mode, I have no issues when gaming at all. It is really annoying me now.

I have searched the forums and the web and found a lot of information about various fixes for this, none of which seem to work.

So far I have tried...

New card drivers (using driver cleaner too)
New MB bios
MSi seem to think I already have the latest VGA bios (from 2013!)
DVI and HDMI cables
Different TV's
removing and re-seating GFX card and memory
having a good clean of the fans and heatsinks etc.

Finally I tried to mess around with 2D & 3D clocks in afterburner but only succeeded in repeatedly crashing my machine.


I don't really want to shell out on new GFX if there is a way of fixing this, especially as there doesn't seem to be any budget champion cards these days... Paid £90 for this one and about £110 for the 5770 before it. Bang for buck ratio seems to have plummeted...along with the exchange rate


If anyone has any bright ideas or come across this any info would be appreciated.

sorry for bringing up such old school tech on the GFX forum

Cheers!

I have a 7870 and have no problems at all with the 16.7.1 drivers.

I did upgrade to newer drivers and had loads of problems,with crashing and flickering on the desktop,so i went back to older drivers and all is ok.

Try 16.7.1 see if that helps.

Thanks Karik,

Sadly having given this a try, if anything it seems the same. But I don't think that is really down to the drivers, the more I see it, it looks like the card is slowly dying

I started noticing it around the time that Windows 10 did the first big update (about 6-7 months ago I think?) and attributed it to driver issues that would settle down, and tbh it did seem slightly better in the few weeks after.

It has been getting worse over the last 6-8 weeks and started affecting videos and web browsing quite badly.

Strange that it only manifests itself in 2D though, I would have thought that 3D would have been affected too.

I guess I was hoping someone here might have had similar issues as OC sold a boatload of these cards.

I think I might go down the route of a complete re-install before giving up completely, you never know!

At least if all fails I will NEED a new card