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    Starcraft II - Flickering on External Monitor (M17x-R2 4870x2)

    Discussion in 'Alienware 17 and M17x' started by SpinalGT, Jun 20, 2011.

  1. SpinalGT

    SpinalGT Notebook Consultant

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    Hello,

    I'm experiencing a problem while playing some games (Street Fighter 4, StarCraft 2, CoD: BO) on a LG 26" full-hd external display connected through HDMI.

    It has some flickering at the bottom of the screen, its like some black bars that appears for 0,2 sec i dont know.

    I'm having this problem since yesterday, I've been playing without problems since march/this year.

    I've tried new drivers, Catalyst 11.6 and also CAP 11.6, but the problem persists, and I noticed something that this happens only when VSYNC is ON.

    I turn it off and flickering is gone.

    My BIOS is A10, and my specs are on my sig.
     
    SpinalGT, Jun 20, 2011
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  2. SpinalGT

    SpinalGT Notebook Consultant

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    So, I've unplugged my external monitor and played a couple of games using the M17x R2 display, and I got the same black flickering.

    I just noticed that the windows 7 battery icon is showing a message "consider replacing your battery".

    Do you think that this might be a power issue?

    ps.: also what happened only playing Starcraft 2 now happens in other games aswell. And it happens only when VSYNC is ON.
     
    SpinalGT, Jun 27, 2011
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  3. SpinalGT

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    Anyone please?
     
    SpinalGT, Jun 27, 2011
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    When you tried new drivers, did you remove/clean the old drivers out?
     
    Smooth_J, Jun 27, 2011
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    I had this issue and when I changed the resolution it cleared up this issue.

    I could not play at the higher level resolution, but the lower levels worked fine.

    I have the R1, so it might be different.
     
    rmcolosimo, Jun 27, 2011
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    No, I didn't clean the old drivers, just uninstalled them using windows safe mode and then installed new divers.

    And yes I tried new resolutions, 1920x1080 using the external display and 1920x1200 using the laptop display.

    I am hoping not to have to replace a faulty gpu after a year, because I'm not in the US anymore.
     
    SpinalGT, Jun 27, 2011
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