sturmer25 said:
I have the screen flicker problem on two cpus running XP, dx 9c? (latest) at all resolutions and bit depths. I may be on to what is going on but I need to do some more testing. So far I havent seen the problem if I dont AltTab out of the game during play (like to check email, close and come back). Everytime I have alttabbed out eventually the screen flicker occurs. I am not 100% yet, but I think Iread somewhere the game did not support alt tab.
Any help or suggestions? I got kicked out of the other screen flicker thread.
Interesting observation about the alt-tabbing. Yes that is not supported for HOI2, some people also complain about corupted graphics when Alt-Tabing
Also very important to close everything in the background, when we figure out what it is we can add things back if you like. Especially make sure you have musicmatch shutdown.
The other thing is trying different video settings. (refresh rates)
So follow these steps first:
Okay let's try some standard things.
1) Rename the AVI folder to AVI_back
2) Set the color depth to 16BIT
3) Turn off everything in the background like E-mail/ICQ/Messenger, Virus protection and everything in the system tray beside the clock.
4) Update your Windows, update your Video card drivers and audio card drivers. Then repeat steps 1-3.
5) Adjust your refresh rate and try different ones.
Please run a DirectX Diagnostic:
Start menu –Run - then type Dxdiag, then select each tab across the top of the window, and run the tests on each tab. Then select “Save All Information” button in the lower right of the window. This will bring up a dialog box to allow you to select a name for the file where the information will be saved. You can save it right on the desktop as this will make it easy to find. Then copy the contents of that file from the start to the heading that says “DirectX components” then paste what you have copied into a post in this thread.
