Usually the flicker for me is Winamp in the background. If u turn that off its perfect
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I noticed this problem when I upgraded to Winamp 5 from whatever I was using, Winamp 3.something. I tried Victoria and EUII using Winamp 5 for background music, and the screen wouldn't stop flickering. Eventually I changed the winamp skin and now both of these games work perfectly with it running.
Well I play at the highest resolution... but I did play with the 2 lower ones and never had anything flickering IIRC..Furthermore since it stopped after I switched off the avi folder, whilst its still swithced on in hoi1 that would mean something is wrong with that? But what?? I do have SFirst version BTW of HOI1. Also this does not happen with CK or VIC...
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Well the Bink player is notorious for sure. HOI2 could use a different codec than the previous versions.
Screen Flicker, wrong resolution
Hey guys, I am trying to find a way to reduce the game's screen resolution to 800*600 with a refresh rate of 60Hz because that's all my monitor can handle. My system complies with the recommended requirements, but my monitor is holding me back, I would like to know if there's a way to correct this issue.
Thank you for your help
Hey guys, I am trying to find a way to reduce the game's screen resolution to 800*600 with a refresh rate of 60Hz because that's all my monitor can handle. My system complies with the recommended requirements, but my monitor is holding me back, I would like to know if there's a way to correct this issue.
Thank you for your help
My great monitor
Castellon thanks for the reply, my monitor is an old 94' Samsung Sync Master 3 Interlaced. Its maximum resolution is 800*600 and it can't handle more than 60Hz of refresh rate.
Castellon said:
Castellon thanks for the reply, my monitor is an old 94' Samsung Sync Master 3 Interlaced. Its maximum resolution is 800*600 and it can't handle more than 60Hz of refresh rate.
It's an old model, it has no such model no.
Model No.: CVM4967T
Serial No.: H8ZC800221
FCC ID.: A3LCVT485
Castellon said:
Model No.: CVM4967T
Serial No.: H8ZC800221
FCC ID.: A3LCVT485
Strange according to their site, they have no record of any such model even in their discontinued section. 
The website has no info
I tried searching Samsung's website, but there's no record of my model. The monitor was made in '93, they have no record of models THAT old. Search the web for its specs, I'm not lying. It's a genuine samsung monitor, but it handles 800*600 max.
Thank you for your help
Castellon said:Strange according to their site, they have no record of any such model even in their discontinued section.
I tried searching Samsung's website, but there's no record of my model. The monitor was made in '93, they have no record of models THAT old. Search the web for its specs, I'm not lying. It's a genuine samsung monitor, but it handles 800*600 max.
Thank you for your help
Even for 93 that is pretty low, If that is the case there is not much I can do for you, sorry.
I'm getting a nasty screen flicker despite performing all the recommended changes. I even removed my internet connection so that it wouldn't be in the systray. I've tried fiddling with the refresh rate 60 hz (which is the default, but I've also tried 70 and 75), I dropped the colors to 16 bit (normally 32 bit), reset the resolution to 1024x768 (normally 1280x1024) removed everything from the systray, still getting a flicker at least once every five seconds.
The monitor is a ViewSonic VE710b-2, graphics card NVidia GeForce FX 5500.
The monitor is a ViewSonic VE710b-2, graphics card NVidia GeForce FX 5500.
Found the problem. It turned out to be the hardware acceleration (under display/settings/advanced/troubleshoot). I turned it down three notches and everything is fine.
Not really a great solution, and it should not be nec. something is causing that flicker.
Most likely one of the processes still running.
Most likely one of the processes still running.
Castellon said:
What's causing it, realistically, is bugs in the HoI2 engine.Unfortunately, since the problem has been with us since ages ago, it seems unlikely to be fixed.
I've another tip for affected people: If your taskbar is set to auto-hide, try disabling that feature.
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You cannot say it is a bug in the engine since I and 99% of the people do not have any flicker, and those that have the flicker I have been able to solve the majority of the problems by having them shut down all their processes that they do not need.
Yup.
Right now, I can get my copy of HoI 2 to flicker intermittently. Why? Because I have upgraded Trillian from 0.74 beta to 3.0 basic. Having 0.74 open in the background does not cause flicker, having 3.0 open does. Version 3.0 wants to be fully visible on the desktop at all times. So, when the game starts, the current video resolution changes to 800x600 first (for the loading screen) and then on to 1024x768. Both times, Trillian wants to adjust it's window position on the desktop, calls MoveWindow to do so, and that temporarily shifts the focus from the game to the desktop and back. It goes fast enough to suppress the actual repainting of the desktop itself, but not fast enough to go unnoticed. The result is some flickering.
Like Castellon said, shut down all background tasks, especially things like messenger software (MSN, IRC, etc), and the flicker should stop. If it does not, turn your system upside down with anti spyware software, because chances are that one or more pesky spyware thingies are grabbing CPU time. That too causes flicker.
One last thing. You say flicker stops when turning down hardware video accelleration. While this can very well hide what I described above (your entire video subsystem is slower, so it also reacts slower to focus changes between programs), it can also indicate overheating of the video chip that is plagueing your system. When a video chip overheats AND has thermal protection, it shuts itself down temporarily to cool off. When it does that, the screen goes black. When the shutdown is a fraction of a second, you will perceive that as flicker.
Jan Peter
Right now, I can get my copy of HoI 2 to flicker intermittently. Why? Because I have upgraded Trillian from 0.74 beta to 3.0 basic. Having 0.74 open in the background does not cause flicker, having 3.0 open does. Version 3.0 wants to be fully visible on the desktop at all times. So, when the game starts, the current video resolution changes to 800x600 first (for the loading screen) and then on to 1024x768. Both times, Trillian wants to adjust it's window position on the desktop, calls MoveWindow to do so, and that temporarily shifts the focus from the game to the desktop and back. It goes fast enough to suppress the actual repainting of the desktop itself, but not fast enough to go unnoticed. The result is some flickering.
Like Castellon said, shut down all background tasks, especially things like messenger software (MSN, IRC, etc), and the flicker should stop. If it does not, turn your system upside down with anti spyware software, because chances are that one or more pesky spyware thingies are grabbing CPU time. That too causes flicker.
One last thing. You say flicker stops when turning down hardware video accelleration. While this can very well hide what I described above (your entire video subsystem is slower, so it also reacts slower to focus changes between programs), it can also indicate overheating of the video chip that is plagueing your system. When a video chip overheats AND has thermal protection, it shuts itself down temporarily to cool off. When it does that, the screen goes black. When the shutdown is a fraction of a second, you will perceive that as flicker.
Jan Peter
Well, as far as I can tell it appears to be the ideal solution. The game runs just as fast, I can reset all my other default settings such as color depth, and I can run whatever I want in the background without it flickering.