Insane flicker with a SINGLE gts 450 : Crysis

» Sat May 07, 2011 8:57 pm

Hi there, i got Crysis 2 today, and i been spending the whole day trying to get the damn thing to stop flickering. As it is now its not even playable, i get to chose between flicker, or a "zoomed" second image ontop.

I see thousands of threads about sli, but i am using a single gts 450 with the newest drivers, and its not overclocked.

Are there any fixes, or should i just go right ahead and throw the game out the window?

» Sat May 07, 2011 11:47 pm

I am with GTS450, with the latest drivers too, and I don't have any problems. Post your pc setup, someone maybe able to help you.

» Sun May 08, 2011 4:49 am

Are you sure you mobo doesnt have hybrid sli? that could be a problem.

» Sun May 08, 2011 5:14 am

My computer: i7 950, 8GB ram, GTS 450 and the motherboard is a Gigabyte ( GA-X58A-UD3R)

» Sun May 08, 2011 2:38 am

bump

» Sun May 08, 2011 6:55 am

Insane flickering goes only on multi gpu's, Crytek said to disable cf or sli to fix this.
Try to rename Crysis2.exe to Bioshock.exe, crazy but it's working.

» Sun May 08, 2011 2:57 am

are you running MSI Afterburner with custom fan profile?
what`s your resolution?

» Sun May 08, 2011 12:38 am

My resolution is 1680x1050, and i have MSI afterburner, but im not using a custom fan profile, just auto.

» Sun May 08, 2011 1:34 am

My computer: i7 950, 8GB ram, GTS 450 and the motherboard is a Gigabyte ( GA-X58A-UD3R)

Someone else has gts 450 and doesn't have the problem , and I have the 950 , same MOBO only gtx580 and also don't have it

Maybe some software related stuff?

» Sat May 07, 2011 10:56 pm

try quit Afterburner when you start the game. see if that works.
also try these drivers: http://forums.nvidia.com/index.php?showtopic=196709

» Sun May 08, 2011 10:59 am

Renaming the exe did nothing, same with shutting down Afterburner.

» Sat May 07, 2011 9:36 pm

(double post)

» Sun May 08, 2011 10:22 am

i`m sry to hear that. maybe you can try with a friend video card to see if there is an software/pc issue or it`s just your video card.
try also to contact EA suport: http://support.ea.com/ - maybe they are familiar with this problem.

» Sun May 08, 2011 9:10 am

Try to disable CUDA processing from the nvidia control panel. Not the best advise, but you can try that way.

» Sat May 07, 2011 7:34 pm

i got gtx 460 cuda - got flickering
frieng got normal 460 gtx = FINE

will try disabling cuda

» Sat May 07, 2011 8:08 pm

Perhaps an odd suggestion, but remove 4GB ram and try again, dnnow why but helped for a mate.

» Sat May 07, 2011 7:45 pm

disabling CUDA not working

» Sun May 08, 2011 4:19 am

disabling CUDA not working

Kinda hoped that will work, but I guess not...

Perhaps an odd suggestion, but remove 4GB ram and try again, dnnow why but helped for a mate.

You can also try this. I've heard that many problems with games, programs and etc. comes from the ram. The last thing that comes to my mind...reinstall of windows...

» Sun May 08, 2011 6:44 am

Support solved the issue for me, dont ask me why, but replacing my crysis2.exe with the one from the backup folder made all the graphic problems go away.

» Sat May 07, 2011 8:13 pm

Support solved the issue for me, dont ask me why, but replacing my crysis2.exe with the one from the backup folder made all the graphic problems go away.

well i guess people should try to get help from EA support more often

happy to hear that your problem was solved