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I have upgraded to the latest patch, shut down everything else running, renamed my avi folder, and lowered my color depth to 16 bit yet my screen still intermittantly flickers only while in the game. Can someone help? Id really like to play but that is way too annoying..
 

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Welcome to the forum :) I get the same thing if I've got an animated icon on the Windows startbar, ie a "new mail" indicator or such. Same thing goes for running WinAmp, just minimising it fixes that.
 

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Yup this is usually caused by something running in the background, like virus protection, ICQ/Messanger, Outlook ...
khlash if you are sure you have NOTHING running in the background then let me know and I will give you somrthing else to try.
 

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What refresh rate do you have set?
 

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Try turning the music off in HOI settings/config program.
If that does not help try setting the game to a different resolution in the config program.
 
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This is puzzling me!

After months of play on the same computer, I suddenly getthis problem too! And the worst part is, I haven't altered anything on its configyration (AFAIK) ofc).

So it's not a hardware issue. Neither can it be the installation of HOI itself. I also tried experimenting with as well resolution as monitor refresh rate. No avail.

So please tell me, could this be caused by something in DX? Directx is the only component I can think of that would have been altered without my particular attention (some games do not check for newer versions :rolleyes: ). If so, which part should I be looking for?
 

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Screen flicker is 85% of the time caused by something running in the background, such as Anti virus, messanger, E-mail, something like that.
Do a Ctrl-Alt-Del and look at the applications and processes running just before you are going to launch HOI.
 

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No there are other factor but refresh rate/Resolution acounts for for about 14% so, as he mentioned he had already tried different refresh rates, it does bring the percentage up to 99%. ;)
 
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Right. *something* apparantly bothered HOI because it worked OK after I killed every other application.

Nice, but it still has me wondering why this is suddenly necessary? Untill now I have never had any problems no matter how much was running in the background.

Somehow I don't feel quite comfortable with this.
 

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The most common culprit is say something like outlook express, if you have it set to check e-mail every minute, then while it is checking the screen will flicker. It is using resources or conflicting with resouces need by the game.
 

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It could even be an autoupdate like windows.
 

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