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|UKMD| Greybeard

Fri Jul 03 09, 02:19PM

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I've just installed the latest NVIDIA drivers (186.18). I have a couple of 8800GTXs in SLI running under XP. All of my other current games are fine. However, TF2 flickers between my character dying and moving to respawn. This happens a lot

No problem during actual play. I know TF2 is optimized for SLI, so I thought some incompatibility might be the cause.

Not a big problem but I just wondered if it was happening to anyone else or if it was a known bug.

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Fri Jul 03 09, 02:54PM

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For me the latest update resolved the flickering I had during the initial loading on GTA4 but Ive not seen it happen in TF2 yet, fingers crossed.

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Fri Jul 03 09, 04:06PM

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i had that problem also a while back, was wierd, mixed up images and showing players in different parts of the map all in one, im using a different hard drive now and w7, would like to know if anyone knows what this is also.

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if you have triple buffering on, do you also have "maximum pre-rendered frames" set to 3 and vice versa? (nVidia control paned -> manage 3d settings)

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|UKMD| Greybeard wrote ...
However, TF2 flickers between my character dying and moving to respawn.

I'm getting this, what it looks like its doing is trying to show 2 different killcam shots of who killed you, the last kill and the kill before. i'm running a palit 295, settings all set to what tito told me to set them to

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Fri Jul 03 09, 10:42PM

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I'm getting the same problem, I've had it since I went SLI with 2 9600gt's, also tried different drivers to no avail
@ Tito treid that mate but no difference.

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|UKMD| Greybeard

Sat Jul 04 09, 12:30PM

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Nice to know I'm not on my own. Thanks for the replies, all.

@Tito - I have "Max. Pre Rendered Frames" set to "3" and "Triple Buffering" set to "Off". What's your recommended configuration? Even though it didn't work for Garbled it may work for me since, as far as I can tell, PC's all have minds of their own

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Sat Jul 04 09, 04:55PM

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I'm getting the same, running latest drivers on my 9800GX2. Interestingly, I also get an insane amount of flickering if I set shadows to High in World of Warcraft.

Does seem like the common factor is SLI, though. I might disable multi-GPU and see if that makes a difference... not that it's ideal, of course.

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I had this too after about 3hrs of continous gaming OR buy swicthing to the weapons screen in TF2, an update of the drivers solved it.

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Sat Jul 04 09, 07:40PM

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so if updating the drivers caused the bug
why not go back to the previous version.

there will be no enhancements for 8800 cards now anyways.

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Sat Jul 04 09, 07:42PM

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oh
and testing an 8800 gts in my pc for a friend who has had problesm with it.
not running sli but offloaded whatever physx resources are used to it and it seems rather good
although it may be just one of them things that i am thinking its good just coz i stuck another card in the box.

heyho, little 8800 gts is hot as hell compared to the 8800gtx above it.

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Sat Jul 04 09, 10:34PM

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its annoying, but doesnt affect gameplay, and the fps i'm getting at max res is worth a little double picture when i die for 3 seconds

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Sun Jul 05 09, 08:33AM

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I'd just like to say that I experience none of the aforementioned problems with my quaint single 4850 from ATI

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Sun Jul 05 09, 11:56AM

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ah riley the reason for this is simple

ATI only release new drivers every 6 months or so.

|UKMD| Greybeard

Sun Jul 05 09, 12:54PM

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Thanks again, chaps. Since the latest drivers caused it, I've got nowhere to go but backwards. From all your replies, I now know this isn't a sign that my GPUs are about to explode, so I can happily live with it

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