Posted September 24, 2012
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Davespice
Wrapper Dev
Registered: Apr 2011
From United Kingdom
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Blarg
New User
Registered: Sep 2008
From United States
Posted October 15, 2012
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I know that on at least one occasion, it happened when my virus checker was grinding away overtime, and another when java was uploading an update in the background (java is the absolute worst at this -- it sucks up a lot of memory or system resources or something, but can bring anything I'm doing to a halt or cause weird things to happen).
So my guess is that the program is especially vulnerable to background system-hogs and tends to go on the fritz when too many/much cpu cycles or memory are getting used somewhere else.
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Vomiuts
Blade Master
Registered: Apr 2009
From United States
Posted November 12, 2012
Enable direct 3d and the flicker should go away. I found it in the game folder for AOW Shadow Wars as an executable icon
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Hardrada
Sanity is Crazy
Registered: Jan 2009
From New Zealand
Posted May 14, 2013
I am having the same problem, and there is no Direct 3D option for the first Age of Wonders.
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Hardrada
Sanity is Crazy
Registered: Jan 2009
From New Zealand
Posted May 14, 2013
I am now using this utility to run the game in a fullscreen borderless window, which seems to have fixed the flickering problem. It is not an ideal solution as I would rather play at 1600x1200 than my desktop resolution, but it works.
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norari1977
New User
Registered: Jun 2010
From Japan
Posted May 25, 2013
i had same problem as well, it was not only AOW but also some other games bought on GoG .
i think it's something related with background programs, all games which had flickering solved problem after i disabled some motherboard apps such as AI suites ( Asus's one).
i think it's something related with background programs, all games which had flickering solved problem after i disabled some motherboard apps such as AI suites ( Asus's one).
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Eezak77
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Registered: Apr 2013
From United States
Posted October 17, 2013
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Could anyone help to resolve this issue? I'd like to play these games without all of the screen flickering involved.
The game played fine without any problems except for the regularly irregular flashing that is quite irritating. The game is otherwise quite playable, but that flashing (as one poster said it may not happen for some seconds and then you get a couple of quick flashes in a second or less). It's enough of a distraction that it really interferes with my enjoying the game.
I'm trying different combos of compatibility/admin permission, but no luck so far.
Now that I've played the game again for a few minutes I'd say there is a semi-regular pattern, at least on my machine. It seems to flicker steadily maybe 3 times in 2 seconds and then it will sort of "hiccup" and the middle of the screen in particular seems to flash a couple of times and then it's back to flashing 3 times every two seconds or so for a bit and so on.
Most of the games I've bought from GOG have run fine or needed minimal tweaking. Hope there's a fix for this.
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Mimo
Basement Dweller
Registered: Dec 2008
From United States
Posted October 17, 2013
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Could anyone help to resolve this issue? I'd like to play these games without all of the screen flickering involved.
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I'm trying different combos of compatibility/admin permission, but no luck so far.
Hope there's a fix for this.
It does use the integrated graphics on my laptop which leads to heat issues, but I don't play for more than an hour at a time anyway.
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thelovebat
Falcon...Brunch!
Registered: Jun 2010
From United States
Posted October 19, 2013
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Could anyone help to resolve this issue? I'd like to play these games without all of the screen flickering involved.
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The game played fine without any problems except for the regularly irregular flashing that is quite irritating. The game is otherwise quite playable, but that flashing (as one poster said it may not happen for some seconds and then you get a couple of quick flashes in a second or less). It's enough of a distraction that it really interferes with my enjoying the game.
I'm trying different combos of compatibility/admin permission, but no luck so far.
Now that I've played the game again for a few minutes I'd say there is a semi-regular pattern, at least on my machine. It seems to flicker steadily maybe 3 times in 2 seconds and then it will sort of "hiccup" and the middle of the screen in particular seems to flash a couple of times and then it's back to flashing 3 times every two seconds or so for a bit and so on.
Most of the games I've bought from GOG have run fine or needed minimal tweaking. Hope there's a fix for this.
I believe they said if you forced the game to go into windowed mode once, that would fix the flickering issue. Then after that you could play fullscreen and it would work fine. I did that with the first game and it ended up working surprisingly enough. I tested the two other games and they worked and started up fine as well.
I forget what topic it was, but I think you had to do something like alt+enter to force windowed mode, but I could be wrong since its been a while. If you guys do some searching you might find the topic I got that from.
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ServiusTheBear
New User
Registered: Jul 2012
From United Kingdom
Posted April 10, 2014
Right it might not be to everyones taste playing a game in windowed mode. But I can tell you that works. Not flickering at all.
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AdamMacK
New User
Registered: Jan 2014
From Canada
Posted May 13, 2014
THANKS guys that worked. I couldn't play on my steam version of the game. But the got this version works by making it a window! Awesome!
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TrenchcoatPrism
New User
Registered: Sep 2008
From United States
Posted December 06, 2014
Switching into windowed mode does stop the flickering, but when I switch back into full screen it comes right back. Is there any way to get rid of the flickering in full screen?
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SkyMaster1888
New User
Registered: Jun 2015
From Germany
Posted February 12, 2023
Moved the post to a separate topic as it does not relate to AoW 1.
AoW2 Shadow Magic: Flickering screen problems
AoW2 Shadow Magic: Flickering screen problems
Post edited February 12, 2023 by SkyMaster1888