I just tried TA in my Windows 7 x64 install and I ran a battle at 1920x1200. I get a strange black flicker every couple of seconds. Does this happen to anyone else? I thought it might have to do with my having triple buffering and vsync forced globally but turning it off didn't help. Thanks for any ideas. I do have a dual gpu card, that might be the problem.

I'm not sure if I was seeing the same thing, but...
Last night I broke down and bought the game. Ramped the resolution up to 1680 x 1050. Playing the first Core mission in the main campaign, I would get crazy flickering sometimes, and I realized it was because the starting map was basically the size of my horizontal resolution. The camera was freaking out, trying to fit a view of the map into a space nearly the same size as the map. When I would scroll carefully, I could remove the effect (though if I scrolled too close to the edge the flickering would resume).
While I know basically every map in the game is larger than the initial missions' maps, I decided to reduce the resolution a little just to be safe, to 1440 x 900. Works fine with no flickering.

I get that, but only from between when I start a game and when I click my commander... then it goes

Same as SirCabbage here, I think. It's not terrible, but would definitely be nice to have gone. Also on Win7 64.

I had this problem and came to the conclusion that it was iTunes that was causing it - I was listening to my own music while I played, instead of the in-game music. I found that closing iTunes made the flickering stop almost completely. I had also tried various compatibility mode settings like disabling composition and visual themes, to no avail.

I suspect there's something in iTunes that causes the problem, and that issue possibly exists in other software too. As weird as it might sound, next time you experience flickering in TA, alt+tab and close programs that are open one by one and alt+tab back in to see if it fixed it. That's how I found that closing iTunes caused it to stop immediately.

I have the same problem in TA: Kingdoms, without running any other software in the background.
I've tried changing the compatibility settings to Win 95/98/XP, disabling visual themes and any other thing that can be disabled, switching the refresh rate of the monitor, turning off the adaptive AA from the ATI CCC or changing the renderer to software. All to no avail.
I have Win 7 32.

Yeah, I get some flickering, too. It's most noticeable on the Menu screens - these flickering horizontal black lines coming and going, coming and going, up and down the screen. It's not a big issue, but it's extremely annoying and strains my eyes.

Anyone have or know of a fix?

I've been running the game in XP Pro (sp3), and I'm having intermittent flickering problems too. I haven't found a fix yet.

I am having this problem as well, since there doesn't seem to be any fix that I can find?

Incidentally, I've noticed that the game ONLY flickers while in a menu, or while playing. When I first start the game, or am looking at the title menu, it doesn't flicker at all, only once I select something does it start, and it stops when I go back to the title menu.

I have tried compatibility modes but I've found that the older the version of Winwoes selected, the more severe the flickering becomes, and with Win2000 and older once a menu item is selected the screen will begin to flicker violently and then after a few seconds the game will minimize itself.

i sure hope a solution can be found to this problem because me and my wife just bought it and it doing it on her laptop, which pretty much makes it unplayable. we changed every setting we could change to no avail. it runs fine on my desktop though.

What graphics cards are you people running?

ATI Radeon HD 3400 series (way more than enough power to run this game, definitely not high end though).

win7x64

I'm running into the same problem that people are describing above. I think it may be a directx version conflict... after playing around with settings (compatability etc.) I sometimes get a message that says something along the lines of: the directx version is not compatible and may cause issues...

Not sure if this helps, but it also mentions that we should install the directx that came with the disk... being that we don't have discs I'm wondering if they meant directx 7.0, which I believe is the directx that came with the game at the time... [DISCLAIMER] this is just a guess and I don't know how to get ahold of such binaries.

Works fine for me on XP SP3 with the latest DirectX 9 binaries, but I've been using the Geforce 7950GT\Geforce 9800GT.