Graphics flickering Problem

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I noticed that I was feeling sick and when playing some games I could see a slight flicker on the screen. I loaded up minectaft and the darkness underground really showed off the flickering quite badly.

It seems to only start when there is something Graphical running. FFXIV causes it a bit, while minecraft causes it a lot. It also affects the screen not just the window. So when Minecraft runs the entire screen (and the second monitor) start strobing vertically (so horizontal lines going up and down), with almost ghostly lines.

This is a new build, but using my old Nvidia 470 graphics card, so I can't quite see why this would happen. now. I've tried several Nvidia drivers, from the newest one to backdating to one from 2011 and it keeps happening.

My build is:

nvidia 470
i7 3820
8GM DDR3
Gigabyte X79-UD3 Motherboard

Not really sure what could be causing it now, I've even gone down to checking the cables but its affecting both monitors which just confuses me. Any Suggestions?
 
so this happens when you run anything graphical is this both windowed and fullcreen? and you say it also makes everything flicker like is it just a general flicker of the screen?
 
Its just a general flicker on both screens, I can't see it under normal pc usage, but when i run a game, Minecraft particularly it starts the problem, effects both screens, when fullscreen, windowed or minimised it happens.

I'm not sure to call it a flicker, its white transparent lines flickering up and down, hard to see when the screens bright (like under normal usage to be honest but I do have a darkish background colour going to test that now) the lines however flicker all over the screen from top to bottom not just in one section of the screen.

EDIT: Tested with black background, an;t see it, but upon running MC again it seems to be strobing from top to bottom about 1/2 inch apart.

EDIT EDIT: Nope i can see it on the black background now while running MC on the other monitor.
 
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right damn i had that same thing with dual monitors but it was an ati 5770 when doing things like playing games the other screen would flicker something like that and i changed some overdrive feature in the ati catalyst centre and it fixed it give me a minute and ill google and see if there is an nividia fix
 
sorry to jump in, but i have the exact same problem.
Only when running any game, i have horizontal lines rolling down the screen.
I also have 2 screens, i wonder if unplugging it will fix it.
On a HD 5850

edit.
nope, problem still there with 1 monitor, it still happens in windowed or full screen mode.
would this be down to screen refresh rates?
 
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j.col said:
sorry to jump in, but i have the exact same problem.
Only when running any game, i have horizontal lines rolling down the screen.
I also have 2 screens, i wonder if unplugging it will fix it.
On a HD 5850
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if you go to the amd catalyst control centre go to performance and find amd overdrive untick enable graphics overdrive that should fix your problem
 
Carmina917 said:
if you go to the amd catalyst control centre go to performance and find amd overdrive untick enable graphics overdrive that should fix your problem
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it wasn't ticked, but i ticked it anyway, still no joy.
will have a look about :)
 
Carmina917 said:
right ok if you havent already tried this go to http://www.nvidia.com/object/nvidia-system-tools-6.08-driver.html download the drivers, after that go to start menu type device manager and click enter. Then go to display adapters and find your card right click then uninstall after that run the download and install the new drivers restart and tell me if it fixes it
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Well uninstalled my old one, uninstalled all the extra gubbins, cleaned the drivers with drive sweeper and ccleaner, installed this new one after restarting during all these processes.

Upon restart my secondary monitor can't be found, and windows 7 can't set my one working monitor to the right resolution.

EDIT: Minecraft wont start saying it can;t find drivers, bah...

EDIT2: Or do i have to, once installing the NVIDIA System Tools with ESA Support , go and install the latest nvidia drivers on top?
 
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Bump.

I had a thought about something that might be causing the problem.

When building my rig I had to install my graphics card in the second slot due to there not being enough room due to the large CPU heatsink. Could installing a graphics card in the secondary slot cause these issues?
 
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