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Icewind Dale seriesIWD: Flickering Screen and mouse Icon 'ghosting'(19 posts)(19 posts)
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Posted November 02, 2010
Hi Guys

I just installed IWD, it seemed to install just fine, the movie plays ok at the start but once the main menu window appears I get the screen flickering, the border and text is flashing almost as if its being turned on/off very quickly. Also the cursor which is the 'hand' icon when I move that around the screen it leaves an after image, so simply moving the cursor from one side of the screen to the other I have about 20 hands permenantly across the screen.

I'm running it as administrator, I'm using Vista using an ATI 4870 card and a 1900x1200 screen resolution. I went into the config file and tried different resolutions thinking its a problem there but nothing seems to effect it.

Can anyone offer some help? I'm was so looking forward to playing this game again but sadly its unplayable at the moment with all the flickering and mouse images.
Post edited November 02, 2010 by stevecarr
Posted November 05, 2010
Hi all,

I have exactly the same problem but with the IWD2.
OS: Win 7 64bit pro
GPU: 4870X2 with dual screen setup, res: 1920x1200.
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stevecarr: Hi Guys

I just installed IWD, it seemed to install just fine, the movie plays ok at the start but once the main menu window appears I get the screen flickering, the border and text is flashing almost as if its being turned on/off very quickly. Also the cursor which is the 'hand' icon when I move that around the screen it leaves an after image, so simply moving the cursor from one side of the screen to the other I have about 20 hands permenantly across the screen.

I'm running it as administrator, I'm using Vista using an ATI 4870 card and a 1900x1200 screen resolution. I went into the config file and tried different resolutions thinking its a problem there but nothing seems to effect it.

Can anyone offer some help? I'm was so looking forward to playing this game again but sadly its unplayable at the moment with all the flickering and mouse images.
Post edited November 05, 2010 by varsoom
Posted November 12, 2010
While I don't have an ATI card at the moment, I had this problem on my current 8800GTX. I went one by one on the card's control panel settings and discovered that disabling triple buffering fixed it, this got rid of the cursor after-image and the flickering.
Post edited November 12, 2010 by J87
Posted November 12, 2010
I fixed a problem with my gfx card which concerned disabling direct draw. You might want to try that too. It can be done through Run -> Dxdiag, or manually. To do it manually:

1) Make a txt file with this text:

@Echo Off
::Set Mode=1 to Disable, Mode=0 to Enable as the default if nothing specified on the command line.
Set _Mode=0
If /I "%~1"=="Disable" Set _Mode=1
If /I "%~1"=="Enable" Set _Mode=0
Reg Add HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\DirectDraw /V EmulationOnly /T REG_DWORD /D %_Mode% /F
Reg Add HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Direct3D\Drivers /V SoftwareOnly /T REG_DWORD /D %_Mode% /F

2) Rename the file from Something.txt to SetDX.cmd;

3) Right click on it, on Properties->Target either type...
SetDx.cmd Enable
or
SetDx.cmd Disable
...to either switch On and Off direct draw.
Posted November 13, 2010
All you need to do is Disable Catalyst AI in ATI CCC =)
Posted January 17, 2011
It didn't help me!
Win 7 64bit ATI card.
It works great in windowed mode, except I can't scroll down or right, only up and left.
Posted January 25, 2011
Turn off Triple Buffering in your graphics card's control panel. It breaks Infinity Engine games; I couldn't play BG or BG2 with it on.
Posted January 28, 2011
For an ATI card, turn off "Cataylst AI", and "Triple buffering".

Also, if you have Crossfire on, turn that off too.

New school tech does not gel well with old school software.

Its like this for all the IE based games.

(And its an easy fix, just save a game profile for Infinity Engine with these options turned off)
Posted February 17, 2011
Infinity Engine games used to work fine for me. I stopped playing IWD at a difficulty spike. I was going to try playing today, but now I get the flickering/cursor ghosting issue. The game area looks ok, but wherever menu items/hud exist, it just flickers, often showing whatever video played last, be it the intro, the resting video, or whatever. The same happens in Baldur's Gate II, but I don't have the gog version.

I'm using an Nvidia GTX285, on Windows 7 with the latest drivers. It's probably a newer driver than when I last played.

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Post edited February 17, 2011 by Al3xand3r
Posted February 17, 2011
Is this with or without the Widescreen mod? I had this ages ago with BG2 (on disc) without it...
Posted February 17, 2011
Without, I just run these games at 1024x768 windowed with 3D mode. I don't like the HUD tiling that occurs past that resolution.

Edit: oops, solved. I had changed my Nvidia settings to force triple buffering and vsync to on for some other games like The Witcher and X3: Terran Conflict which overworked my card running at insane fps without having their own sync settings. Disabling these fixed this. I'm not sure which setting it was, the triple buffering or the forced vsync, as I disabled both at the same time.Anyway, it's all good now :-)
Post edited February 17, 2011 by Al3xand3r
Posted July 03, 2011
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xdiesp: I fixed a problem with my gfx card which concerned disabling direct draw. You might want to try that too. It can be done through Run -> Dxdiag, or manually. To do it manually:
This is exactly what I did to fix Icewind Dale running Windows XP in VMWare Fusion 3, under OSX.

The annoying flickering is gone and the game seems to run even smoother.
Posted August 03, 2011
I hope someone is still reading this thread. I had the same problem people reported here when trying to play icewind dale II under VMware fusion/windows xp: the horrible mouse/screen flickering. I disabled direct draw, which immediately got rid of the flickering. Unfortunately, now the game crashes whenever it tries to show a 3d animation, for instance when I open the character screen in which a single character's color/armour are being displayed. Any idea of how to fix this?
Posted February 20, 2012
FIXED!

Came here with the same issue and found the fix on my own.

In the games directory, there should be a CONFIG.EXE file. Open it and go to the GRAPHICS tab and in 3D OPTIONS, turn on "USE OPENGL 3D ACCELERATION."

This fixed it on my machine. No more flickering.

Windows 7 64 bit.
2x Nvidia GTX 460 SLI
Post edited February 20, 2012 by fireteam1013
Posted March 05, 2012
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fireteam1013: FIXED!

Came here with the same issue and found the fix on my own.

In the games directory, there should be a CONFIG.EXE file. Open it and go to the GRAPHICS tab and in 3D OPTIONS, turn on "USE OPENGL 3D ACCELERATION."

This fixed it on my machine. No more flickering.

Windows 7 64 bit.
2x Nvidia GTX 460 SLI
Thanks, this is what fixed it for me too. Disabling triple buffering and vsync didn't fix the issue.

Win 7 64-bit
Geforce GT 540M
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