Flickering Terrain & Units on 5870

**bikeracer4487** · February 22, 2010, 10:39 PM

Hey, so as far as I can tell, I seem to be experiencing the same problems as a lot of nVidia users....only I have an ATI 5870...when I start up a game I can see the names of cities, the GUI, even the tutorial text...but everything else if a flickering blob of big brown, red, black, etc... shapes... Have tried adjusting the in-game as well as driver settings to lowest possible and tried disabling my 8800GT running Physx but nothing seems to help...

**karamazovmm** · February 22, 2010, 11:00 PM

I really didn't knew the possibility of running two different cards, even if for the physx effects... try removing the 8800, physically. If it doesn't work try the ATI thread

**Yojimbo** · February 23, 2010, 09:21 AM

Agreed, remove the 8800gt its probably the problem.

**bikeracer4487** · February 23, 2010, 10:26 AM

Well...tried removing the 8800GT...no luck...but I don't see how the 8800Gt could be causing the problem since it's not used to render graphics, it just supplements the CPU.

**karamazovmm** · February 23, 2010, 10:45 AM

well the issues that you described are classical from the nvidia gpus... you have to take a look at the ATI thread for the best drivers for the 5870

**irishron** · February 23, 2010, 11:12 AM

If you still have the Nvidia drivers installed, uninstall them. It is probably conflicting with ATI's.

**bikeracer4487** · February 23, 2010, 03:31 PM

Well, I physically removed the 8800GT, cleaned out all of the nVidia drivers and software, reinstalled the ATI driver...same problem... However, I did discover that I can use Shader Model 2 without the problem...it just looks like crap...still hoping for a fix...

**irishron** · February 23, 2010, 03:55 PM

There is no fix by CA and ATI isn't going to for one game. If you don't belive me, http://shoguntotalwar.yuku.com/topic/66796, and read post #79, in particular.

**bikeracer4487** · February 23, 2010, 04:13 PM

Thing is, I now have the same problem with Napoleon Total War...

**karamazovmm** · February 23, 2010, 04:46 PM

That was something expected, since ntw is not a major overhaul of etw

**pajomife** · February 24, 2010, 02:43 PM

People, see if you have the AA enable in the GPU control panel ,make it disable and set it controlled by application.

**Randwulf** · March 06, 2010, 06:49 AM

Greetings all:

I just installed NTW and was having the same flicker problems described herein, although I'm running an ATI Radeon 4670. Reading about the AA setting rang a bell, and I checked in the CCC and sure enough, I had it set to a manual setting. I reset it so applications have control and the flicker disappeared. Screen appearance suffered slightly but that's far less annoying than watching the draw/redraw every cycle. Thanks for the tip!