Game Unplayable due to Heavy Flickering

duncan · Post by **duncan** » Fri Jan 29, 2010 4:02 pm

Hi

I was having same problem with Windows 7 64 bits, Radeon 4850 and 9.12 catalyst Drivers. I reverted to 16-bits colour in screen properties and the games does not flicker anymore. Anyway, there is a newer version of the catalyst drivers, 10.1.

Hope it helps...

Post by **IainMcNeil** » Fri Jan 29, 2010 4:06 pm

For people having problems - are you running full screen or in a window?

Playing with your colour depth settings might be worth a try.

panda22 · Post by **panda22** » Wed Feb 03, 2010 6:06 pm

I have Windows 32 bit installed, with an HD 5870.

I tried the fix of changing color depth from 32 bit to 16 bit,this did stop the shakes.
My question is still why the program ran fine on this system at 32 bit color using an NVIDIA 280 with no shakes, and not with the ATI 5870.This change in video cards is the only change made to the system.

As I stated in my earlier post out of more then 15 games installed it (the shakes) only happen on Field of Glory.

Thanks panda22[/b]

keithmartinsmith · Post by **keithmartinsmith** » Wed Feb 03, 2010 6:19 pm

There have been other forum posts indicating the ATI do have some known issues with their drivers for some high end ATI cards.

A common fix has been to user an HDMI connection when available. Another fix is to reduce your resultion to a lower one and try that e.g. 1280 x 720.

The game runs fine here all at the stated reslutions with issues but we do not have one of the problem ATI cards to test on.

Do check that the you have the latest ATI display driver AND that your monitor/display settings are correct for your ATI card and the display driver is up to date as there is also small chance that the display driver is the issue.

We are keen to hear from anyone who has solved this issue.

Keith

Surtur · Post by **Surtur** » Wed Feb 03, 2010 9:20 pm

I have an Ati Sapphire 4850 512 MB and I am not experiencing any problems. I am playing in a 1680 by 1050 resolution. Maybe this information can help.

batesmotel · Post by **batesmotel** » Wed Feb 03, 2010 10:39 pm

Surtur wrote:I have an Ati Sapphire 4850 512 MB and I am not experiencing any problems. I am playing in a 1680 by 1050 resolution. Maybe this information can help.

What version of the ATI drivers are you using? That may be helpful information for people who are having the problem.

Chris

hobbsjas · Post by **hobbsjas** » Thu Feb 11, 2010 1:18 am

I have the flickering as well with an ati 5870. How do you play in a window? I don't see an option for that.

Surtur · Post by **Surtur** » Thu Feb 11, 2010 10:38 am

batesmotel wrote:
Surtur wrote:I have an Ati Sapphire 4850 512 MB and I am not experiencing any problems. I am playing in a 1680 by 1050 resolution. Maybe this information can help.
What version of the ATI drivers are you using? That may be helpful information for people who are having the problem.

Chris

What is the quickest way to check that ?

keithmartinsmith · Post by **keithmartinsmith** » Thu Feb 11, 2010 12:40 pm

To play in a window

Select the ` key (to the left of 1).
In the box that appear enter

full-screen 1

(full-screen 0) disables this.

Playing in a windows loses some scrolling functionality and can often cause graphics crashes where other applications you run on the system are competing for resources. This is particularly true on systems with below 1Gb RAM and/or shared video memory.

Keith

batesmotel · Post by **batesmotel** » Thu Feb 11, 2010 1:27 pm

Surtur wrote:
batesmotel wrote:
Surtur wrote:I have an Ati Sapphire 4850 512 MB and I am not experiencing any problems. I am playing in a 1680 by 1050 resolution. Maybe this information can help.
What version of the ATI drivers are you using? That may be helpful information for people who are having the problem.

Chris
What is the quickest way to check that ?

Assuming you are running Windows, do a right (secondary mouse button) click on the desk top and choose display properties. (This is under personalize in Vista, directly available under XP as I recall. Not sure for Windows 7.) Click advanced options. On the adapter tab click properties for your adapter and then click the drivers tab. This should show the dirver version information. You may also have an ATI tab which will show the information more directly. (My current laptop has an NVidida chip so I don't have the ATI software installed here.) The right click on the desktop may also provide an option to go more directly to ATI settings information.

Chris

Surtur · Post by **Surtur** » Thu Feb 11, 2010 4:28 pm

Thanks for the explanetion.

Here is a screen, hope this is enough info for you guys.

Post by **IainMcNeil** » Thu Feb 11, 2010 5:01 pm

You'd ned to check for updates for this and see what the latest verison is. Every manufacturer has their own drivers.

batesmotel · Post by **batesmotel** » Thu Feb 11, 2010 5:08 pm

iainmcneil wrote:You'd ned to check for updates for this and see what the latest verison is. Every manufacturer has their own drivers.

The point of the previous post was to indicate a version of the ATI drivers that is working, not a quest to find the latest version. Other people having problems with ATI video adapters might want to try this version of the drivers (if they support the board they have) to see if it fixes the issues with the game. Some times older version of drivers will work with a game when newer versions include substantial changes that may have also introduced new problems. FoG PC should not be a game that requires the latest and greatest Video driver tweaks to run acceptably.

Chris

panda22 · Post by **panda22** » Thu Feb 11, 2010 6:35 pm

I upgraded to the 10.1 driver and the game is now working. Thaks for the input.

Post by **IainMcNeil** » Fri Feb 12, 2010 10:28 am

No it shouldnt require the best druivers but the problem is there are bugs in the drivers that the card manufacturers fix. It's shocking how many.... and they often introduce new ones as well!

PDiFolco · Post by **PDiFolco** » Sat Mar 06, 2010 5:59 pm

Looks like I' m screwed... I have a new Asus Laptop, G73J with Mobility Radeon 5870, and heavy flickering .. But as it is a laptop I do use the latest Asus special drivers, they ve been made 2 months ago when they released the model !
I'm not sure i can/should use the standard 10.2 Catalyst drivers with that laptop.. Can someone help ?

EricS · Post by **EricS** » Mon Mar 08, 2010 1:07 pm

To everyone who still has the flickering issue:

Please can you try again with version 1.1.0, and let us know whether that helps.

There were some changes in version 1.1.0 which may fix it.

PDiFolco · Post by **PDiFolco** » Wed Mar 10, 2010 12:41 am

EricS wrote:To everyone who still has the flickering issue:

Please can you try again with version 1.1.0, and let us know whether that helps.

There were some changes in version 1.1.0 which may fix it.

Unfortunately it doesn't for me... As I'm struck with Asus Mobility 5870 drivers (there's no others !) until 10.3 I'd have to play on my old desktop in the meantime until ATI release 10.3 catalyst.. Well I can wait !

Examinondas · Post by **Examinondas** » Wed Mar 10, 2010 9:24 am

With the 1.1.0 patch and some unknown ATI mobility drivers for Win7-64bits, I also experienced the heavy flicker problem.

I solved it by selecting "disable desktop composition" in the compatibility tab of the FoG exe, as shown in the screenshoot below:

(Yeah, it's in spanish, but I guess the tick box is in the same position in all languages...)

PDiFolco · Post by **PDiFolco** » Thu Mar 11, 2010 12:54 am

Examinondas wrote:With the 1.1.0 patch and some unknown ATI mobility drivers for Win7-64bits, I also experienced the heavy flicker problem.

I solved it by selecting "disable desktop composition" in the compatibility tab of the FoG exe, as shown in the screenshoot below:

(Yeah, it's in spanish, but I guess the tick box is in the same position in all languages...)

Yeah, you're da man, it works !! thannnks !!!

However, the help/manual screen doesn't appear, the screen only displays "close" and nothing else...

Also, I got a message that "windows run now in base colors as a program is not compatible with some desktop elements" (may be a bit different as I've translated a French message...). Isn't that linked to Aero stuff ?