Screen Flicker

[Tanth]

I was having trouble with my vid drivers when I went to Vista, and tried entering some code in the chat box that I found here on the forums (and can't find again). I have updated my Intel vid drivers, and no longer have the original prob of the screen going black, but now I have screen flicker. Is there anything I can do to stop this flicker? Or does anyone know what I may have entered in the chat area? I think I would recognize it if I saw it again. Any help would be appreciated.

[ferofax]

...hmm. maybe you somehow lowered the refresh rate... you can usually set those on the display properties.

[Unknowable]

you said "intel vid drivers". are you using onboard graphics (no separate gpu, just what's on the motherboard)? if so, plus you're running Vista, you're asking a lot of your system memory. WoW (or any post-'98 or so game) doesn't run good on onboard graphics under the best of circumstances

[Tanth]

It's the Mobile Intel 945. It ran fine on XP. I think it may be the frame rate. Anyway, I will play with the settings, or try to find the post where I got the code to enter in the chat area.

[ferofax]

...as unknowable said, onboard GPUs are basically a bad idea when playing games that are heavy on the graphics... best solution is to just get a better video card.

[Kalos]

...hmm. maybe you somehow lowered the refresh rate... you can usually set those on the display properties.
The frame rate has nothing to do with the refresh rate. The Refresh rate actually does nothing unless you use a CRT monitor. It's a legacy number put there well before TFT and LCD screeds. CRTs used pulses of light emitted at a screen, the breaks between the end of one burst of light and the start of another was defined by the Refresh Rate setting. It's irrelivant to a flatscreen, but it has to be in the drivers in case a CRT became attatched. A LCD screen emits light 24/7, it has a technical refresh rate of Zero. The diodes are adressed individually anyway, a didode can go for hours on the same colour without being addressed by the controller to change (I.E the Task Bar in Windows) unlike the CRT which was basically one big light-cannon shooting colour out and filling the whole screen; it had to be addressed by one big number-the Refresh rate.

That's why it's just a funny laught when peopel suggest it does anything now. You can put that setting at 2000 if you want, as long as you didn't have a CRT plugged in, you'd notice no change. Frame rates have no relation, and can go both far above and below the refresh rate at any given time. Frame rates and limited by the power of the graphics solution and the complexity of the rendering.

Your advice is not based on any technical understanding of the device, else you woyuld know too that the statistic does nothing, and could not help this person in the slightest.