Screen keeps flickering black

[razorsharpblade]

Integrity​

I have verified my game files (on Steam)​

Yes

I have disabled all mods​

Yes

Required​

Summary​

Screen keeps flickering black

Description​

i have all dlc's When i room in on europe the screen will flicker black in parts of the screen, square black boxes will appear when i zoom or move, i have verified files, updated driver, refreshed nvidia settings, turned down game settings, nothing works, reinstalling fixed it for an hour but then reverted

Steps to reproduce​

unsure if you can

Game Version​

1.7.5 and 1.7.6

OS​

Windows

Additional​

Bug Type​

Graphics

Save Game​

Attachments​

Player Pain​

5

 

[PDX_Sosanna]

Moving to Tech Support

 

[AndrewT]

Right click on victoria3.exe , properties, compatibility. Tick "disable fullScreen optimisations" untick every other box in that dialog, Apply and exit.
Then in the launcher Game Settings menu, select fullScreen display mode, Vsync off, cap refresh rate at 60.


If those don't help:
DXDIAG is a program you run from the Windows search box on the task bar. After running it will open a window and start collecting info with a progress bar in the lower-left corner. When it completes click the 'save all information' button and save it to a file then attach that file here. IF dxdiag.txt fails to attach here, rename it to dxdiag.log , or zip it up.

Please attach here your Documents/Paradox Interactive/Victoria3/pdx_settings.json .
From your Documents/Paradox Interactive/Victoria3/logs/ folder, attach here system.log , error.log

 

[razorsharpblade]

Right click on victoria3.exe , properties, compatibility. Tick "disable fullScreen optimisations" untick every other box in that dialog, Apply and exit.
Then in the launcher Game Settings menu, select fullScreen display mode, Vsync off, cap refresh rate at 60.


If those don't help:
DXDIAG is a program you run from the Windows search box on the task bar. After running it will open a window and start collecting info with a progress bar in the lower-left corner. When it completes click the 'save all information' button and save it to a file then attach that file here. IF dxdiag.txt fails to attach here, rename it to dxdiag.log , or zip it up.

Please attach here your Documents/Paradox Interactive/Victoria3/pdx_settings.json .
From your Documents/Paradox Interactive/Victoria3/logs/ folder, attach here system.log , error.log

hopefully this will help, if it is my pc cant run it properly thats fine, i just want to know if its fixable

 

[AndrewT]

We see some Bluescreen and LiveKernelEvent entries in that dxdiag. BSoD are always Windows, driver or hardware faults. Have you seen those happen, are they related to this game or something else?

Please go into your Windows Event Viewer and look at the latest 2 or 3 of those, what does it say about them there?


You may as well update that Nvidia driver to October 2024, although that's probably not the cause of this problem.


And you may be short of free memory, as your Windows paging file is nearly full.
Please expand your Windows paging file maximum size to 32gb

Optional: Increasing the paging file size on Windows computers

On computers that have 8 GB of RAM, the suggested paging file size is 16 GB.

www.ibm.com

AND exit every other app you can before starting the game.

Good luck with those!

 

[razorsharpblade]

We see some Bluescreen and LiveKernelEvent entries in that dxdiag. BSoD are always Windows, driver or hardware faults. Have you seen those happen, are they related to this game or something else?

Please go into your Windows Event Viewer and look at the latest 2 or 3 of those, what does it say about them there?


You may as well update that Nvidia driver to October 2024, although that's probably not the cause of this problem.


And you may be short of free memory, as your Windows paging file is nearly full.
Please expand your Windows paging file maximum size to 32gb

Optional: Increasing the paging file size on Windows computers

On computers that have 8 GB of RAM, the suggested paging file size is 16 GB.

www.ibm.com

AND exit every other app you can before starting the game.

Good luck with those!

Bluescreen and LiveKernelEvent entries are not relevant to the game i believe. ive expanded my pager and done everything but it still happens. my pc just might not meet the requirements

 

[AndrewT]

Both your CPU and GPU meet or exceed the minimum requirements for this game:

• Processor: Intel® Core™ i5-3470 | AMD® FX™ 9370 (AVX support required)
• Memory: 8 GB RAM
• Graphics: Nvidia® GeForce™ GTX 660 (2GB) | AMD® Radeon™ R7 370 (2GB) or Intel® Iris® Xe Graphics or AMD® Radeon™ Vega 8

So that is not the cause of your problem.


You are saying that none of the BSoD happens while playing this game? What does your Windows Event Viewer say about them?

What it is that triggers the LiveKernelEvent entries, which mean the computer was forcibly downed or rebooted?

 

[razorsharpblade]

Both your CPU and GPU meet or exceed the minimum requirements for this game:

• Processor: Intel® Core™ i5-3470 | AMD® FX™ 9370 (AVX support required)
• Memory: 8 GB RAM
• Graphics: Nvidia® GeForce™ GTX 660 (2GB) | AMD® Radeon™ R7 370 (2GB) or Intel® Iris® Xe Graphics or AMD® Radeon™ Vega 8

So that is not the cause of your problem.


You are saying that none of the BSoD happens while playing this game? What does your Windows Event Viewer say about them?

What it is that triggers the LiveKernelEvent entries, which mean the computer was forcibly downed or reboot

One of the events was a blue screen but that resolved itself and the others are due to power cuts and my dad tripping the electric so I’m not sure about that effecting the game

 

[AndrewT]

Can you please look in the Windows event Viewer at that BSoD - what does it say in there?

Can i get a new dxdiag.txt please?

 

[razorsharpblade]

if im looking at the right report on 31/10/2024 it states The computer has rebooted from a bugcheck. The bugcheck was: 0x0000007e (0xffffffffc0000005, 0xfffff8026a6da899, 0xffff8684f70a8128, 0xffff8684f70a7960). A dump was saved in: C:\WINDOWS\MEMORY.DMP. Report Id: c82ca4dc-c422-4f9e-9210-95665414d564.

hope these help, but no bsod events happen during me opening or playing the game

 

[AndrewT]

MS's answer to that bugcheck is pretty vague I'm afraid!

The bugcheck was: 0x0000007e (0xffffffffc0000005, 0xfffff80002e43a31, 0xfffff880033fc6e8, 0xfffff880033fbf40 - Microsoft Q&A

Hey everyone! I could really use some help figuring out why my computer keeps getting BSODs. I'm running Win7 64bit. I've did several things to fix this problem (replaced primary HD, ran memcheck86 overnight, and disabled a lot of devices in the device…

answers.microsoft.com

Could be almost anything, unfortunately. One possibility mentioned there is running out of space in the Windows paging file, and I see you haven't expanded yours to 32gb or more as I suggested. Can you try that please?

 

[razorsharpblade]

MS's answer to that bugcheck is pretty vague I'm afraid!

The bugcheck was: 0x0000007e (0xffffffffc0000005, 0xfffff80002e43a31, 0xfffff880033fc6e8, 0xfffff880033fbf40 - Microsoft Q&A

Hey everyone! I could really use some help figuring out why my computer keeps getting BSODs. I'm running Win7 64bit. I've did several things to fix this problem (replaced primary HD, ran memcheck86 overnight, and disabled a lot of devices in the device…

answers.microsoft.com

Could be almost anything, unfortunately. One possibility mentioned there is running out of space in the Windows paging file, and I see you haven't expanded yours to 32gb or more as I suggested. Can you try that please?

I honestly thought I did expand it, mustn’t of saved or something. I will try expanding it and making sure tomorrow thank you for your time

 

[razorsharpblade]

MS's answer to that bugcheck is pretty vague I'm afraid!

The bugcheck was: 0x0000007e (0xffffffffc0000005, 0xfffff80002e43a31, 0xfffff880033fc6e8, 0xfffff880033fbf40 - Microsoft Q&A

Hey everyone! I could really use some help figuring out why my computer keeps getting BSODs. I'm running Win7 64bit. I've did several things to fix this problem (replaced primary HD, ran memcheck86 overnight, and disabled a lot of devices in the device…

answers.microsoft.com

Could be almost anything, unfortunately. One possibility mentioned there is running out of space in the Windows paging file, and I see you haven't expanded yours to 32gb or more as I suggested. Can you try that please?

i think i have already expanded it

 

[AndrewT]

That's odd because the latest dxdiag you sent in says:

Page File: 10277MB used, 14628MB available

Anyway, it looks like that isn't the issue after all. Quite what is, I'm not seeing as yet!

I don't suppose you have access to any other video card to swap in, even temporarily, as a test?

Can you please check that your PSU can supply enough power for all the peripherals in this computer?

 

[razorsharpblade]

That's odd because the latest dxdiag you sent in says:


Anyway, it looks like that isn't the issue after all. Quite what is, I'm not seeing as yet!

I don't suppose you have access to any other video card to swap in, even temporarily, as a test?

Can you please check that your PSU can supply enough power for all the peripherals in this computer?

I do not have a spare video card sadly, and the psu does supply enough, could use a dusting inside so I’ll do that and check back

 

[jpd]

I do not have a spare video card sadly, and the psu does supply enough, could use a dusting inside so I’ll do that and check back

What exactly are the specs of that PSU? Because power in does not equal power supplied to the internal components of your PC.

 

[razorsharpblade]

What exactly are the specs of that PSU? Because power in does not equal power supplied to the internal components of your PC.

my brother made this pc but no cost was spared so it is good he says, not sure if thats helpful but sorry. sorry for not answering earlier was doing college stuff

 

[jpd]

my brother made this pc but no cost was spared so it is good he says, not sure if thats helpful but sorry. sorry for not answering earlier was doing college stuff

Well, I asked for a reason. It would not be the first case we've encountered where the power supply turned out to be inadequate. If, for example, you have a 600W power supply with a bronze rating (meaning a 80% or less efficiency), you only have 480W power available for your mainboard, CPU, GPU, memory, drives and whatever else is installed in the PC.

The same power supply with a platinum rating would have 552W available. Which is quite a significant difference

 

[razorsharpblade]

Well, I asked for a reason. It would not be the first case we've encountered where the power supply turned out to be inadequate. If, for example, you have a 600W power supply with a bronze rating (meaning a 80% or less efficiency), you only have 480W power available for your mainboard, CPU, GPU, memory, drives and whatever else is installed in the PC.

The same power supply with a platinum rating would have 552W available. Which is quite a significant difference

yeah its that its only a 500 or 550 according to the guy that made it so its that thanks though

 

[razorsharpblade]

ok i somehow fixed it i dont know how. however what i did somehow disabled tooltips and all info from hovering over anything, so out the fire into the furnace XD