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    Fullscreen in-game flickering

    Discussion in 'Alienware 17 and M17x' started by superkyol, Dec 13, 2011.

  1. superkyol

    superkyol Notebook Consultant

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    I'm sure people have asked this countless times, but I've searched and come up empty. So here we go!

    Long story short: I'm running the audio and video from my M17x R2 into a Samsung SyncMaster via HDMI. I very recently reformatted the beast and reinstalled all the appropriate drivers - even upgraded to the new ATI 12.1 preview or whatever the deuce. In fullscreen, the freakin' thing won't stop flickering! Windowed is fine. I know for sure I had this problem before and I fixed it somehow, but the new CCC layout is not playing nice with my brains.

    If anyone can help me out with this, I will bake you cookies and shout your name from the rooftops and such.

    In the meantime, keep being excellent!
     
    superkyol, Dec 13, 2011
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    haha...

    Is it set to performance profile? have your tried FN + F6?
     
    SlickDude80, Dec 13, 2011
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    What exactly does "performance profile" do? :D
     
    superkyol, Dec 13, 2011
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    Okay, my problem is much worse than I previously anticipated. Textures and lighting are flickering in games such as Skyrim.. weird psychadelic green textures are appearing and disappearing. What the deuce?
     
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    do you get this when running on the 1200p lcd screen or just when you are running via hdmi?
     
    SlickDude80, Dec 13, 2011
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    well, it makes sure you are running with the discrete graphics (your ati cards) instead of integrated
     
    SlickDude80, Dec 13, 2011
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    I think I may have fixed it! Disabled something called Catalyst AI and that seems to do the trick! I do encounter random bouts of lagging, though. Will last for about 10 seconds and then go back to normal. :S
     
    superkyol, Dec 13, 2011
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    you didn't fix anything.

    Disabling Catalyst AI, disables Crossfire aswell so right now you are only running on 1 Gpu and not 2.

    so your problem is still there as it is your second Gpu there is defective
     
    txdk, Dec 14, 2011
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