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Issue with double monitor display showing black flickers or switching between on/off during gameplay

Issue with double monitor display showing black flickers or switching between on/off during gameplay

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owldragonaxe
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01-29-2016, 01:51 AM
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Hi, I have a massive problem that is stopping me from playing the games that I used to. I've tried most things that I could find on the internet and still nothing is working.
So my problem is that when I play games literally any game on a full screen my game will work fine for the first few minutes of playing and then suddenly both of my monitors will start turining on/off / flickering black in kind of weird intervals every few second one monitor will go off and then the other one a sec after and constantly until I turn the game off. What is weird is that it makes a sound as if something is disconecting and connecting back in because it makes the annoying windows sounds.
So far I have tried games like fallout 4, diablo 3, fortnite, cs:go and many others and the problem appears on all of them. What is weird - I can play league of legends normally without this problem but that's the only game that seems to be working.
What is also weird is that I never had that problem few months ago, I did not change anything in my setup, all my drivers are updated, same cables eveything and one day suddenly it started going crazy. I opened my pc and cleaned it properly, everything seems to be working fine and as it was when the games were working so I don't know what the problem is.
Things I tried:
Formatted my pc completely and installed everything back again
Tried all the possible nvidia settings solutions that I could find
All the drivers are updated, even tried going back to older versions of them and still not working
All the cables are correctly plugged in
Tried all the games in windowed mode and still the same thing
My setup and facts:
my main monitor is a SAMSUNG SMS22A100 which is connected through a DVI to VGA (?) pretty sure
my second monitor is a ACER S220HQL which is connected from DVI (the blue one) to HDMI
I'm using GeForce GTX 960 everything updated
windows 10
That's mostly what I can think of, I will answer any questions if you need more information. Any help or advice is appreciated. Also I am not familiar with a lot of PC terms so please keep it simple so I can understand, thanks.
TLDR:
Both my monitors flicker on and off after a certain amount of time, only when playing certain games. It doesn't do it when I am browsing the internet etc. Cables seem to be fine and all the drivers are updated.
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owldragonaxe
01-29-2016, 01:51 AM #1

Hi, I have a massive problem that is stopping me from playing the games that I used to. I've tried most things that I could find on the internet and still nothing is working.
So my problem is that when I play games literally any game on a full screen my game will work fine for the first few minutes of playing and then suddenly both of my monitors will start turining on/off / flickering black in kind of weird intervals every few second one monitor will go off and then the other one a sec after and constantly until I turn the game off. What is weird is that it makes a sound as if something is disconecting and connecting back in because it makes the annoying windows sounds.
So far I have tried games like fallout 4, diablo 3, fortnite, cs:go and many others and the problem appears on all of them. What is weird - I can play league of legends normally without this problem but that's the only game that seems to be working.
What is also weird is that I never had that problem few months ago, I did not change anything in my setup, all my drivers are updated, same cables eveything and one day suddenly it started going crazy. I opened my pc and cleaned it properly, everything seems to be working fine and as it was when the games were working so I don't know what the problem is.
Things I tried:
Formatted my pc completely and installed everything back again
Tried all the possible nvidia settings solutions that I could find
All the drivers are updated, even tried going back to older versions of them and still not working
All the cables are correctly plugged in
Tried all the games in windowed mode and still the same thing
My setup and facts:
my main monitor is a SAMSUNG SMS22A100 which is connected through a DVI to VGA (?) pretty sure
my second monitor is a ACER S220HQL which is connected from DVI (the blue one) to HDMI
I'm using GeForce GTX 960 everything updated
windows 10
That's mostly what I can think of, I will answer any questions if you need more information. Any help or advice is appreciated. Also I am not familiar with a lot of PC terms so please keep it simple so I can understand, thanks.
TLDR:
Both my monitors flicker on and off after a certain amount of time, only when playing certain games. It doesn't do it when I am browsing the internet etc. Cables seem to be fine and all the drivers are updated.

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01-29-2016, 03:28 AM
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Welcome to the forums, newcomer! Given you're using Windows 10 and considering a reinstall, did you create the bootable USB using Windows Media Creation Tools? What BIOS version do you have on your motherboard right now? When you mention reinstalling drivers, are they the most recent ones from the manufacturer's support site and installed via an elevated command, such as right-clicking the installer and selecting Run as Administrator? It would be helpful to see a detailed list of your system specifications, including CPU, motherboard, RAM, SSD/HDD, GPU, power supply, chassis, OS version, age of the device, and model.
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gigi_tron
01-29-2016, 03:28 AM #2

Welcome to the forums, newcomer! Given you're using Windows 10 and considering a reinstall, did you create the bootable USB using Windows Media Creation Tools? What BIOS version do you have on your motherboard right now? When you mention reinstalling drivers, are they the most recent ones from the manufacturer's support site and installed via an elevated command, such as right-clicking the installer and selecting Run as Administrator? It would be helpful to see a detailed list of your system specifications, including CPU, motherboard, RAM, SSD/HDD, GPU, power supply, chassis, OS version, age of the device, and model.

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