Heavy Flicker & Unfocus Problem

Get your drivers direct from Nvidia,,, Not XFX and then fully uninstall them and install the new ones.

Try Tepid's advice first and if still no good..... is it possible to check with another monitor? beg or borrow from a friend. This should tell us if it's the card/pc configuration or the monitor itself.

Pizza said:

This problem really exaggerates itself when i run any game in windowed mode. The game constantly flickers and i always loose focus. It seems like i can click through the game to the desktop.

Ah, check that your hardware acceleration is not turned off (and is turned up as high as you can).

We may have already mentioned it, but if you are over-clocking anything, temporarily stop it.

Pizza said:

Hmm. I was trying to change my hardware acceleration. But it seems that my graphics card doesn't support it? Running the latest Nvidia drivers. Was reading here:

NVIDIA: Disable Hardware Acceleration in Windows 7 | Windows 7 Themes

This means that your graphic card driver does not support it. But the real reason is that Vista and Windows 7 render everything in DirectX9, that’s why you can’t turn it off and change the hardware acceleration settings. Back in XP GDI surfaces were rendered in a completely different way.

Note, i have only had this problem with Windows 7 on this system with the same configuration (minus monitor). I have never had a problem with XP, I am highly considering a format back to XP.

Hey, I just read the same article on Hardware acceleration and it's the first I've heard of it. Hopefully one of the graphics development guys will read this and comment (the guys with the purple GFX badge, If I can remember one, I'll ask them to take a look).

I'm pretty sure that your Nvidia Card supports PhysX, check that it's enabled. Otherwise I'm about out of ideas mate.

Yep, that was my next suggestion,.,, bad video card