[vox-tech] problem with flickering screen,..
Bill Broadley
bill at cse.ucdavis.edu
Thu Dec 14 10:29:17 PST 2006
Ted Deppner wrote:
> Is it a blink where the screen tends to come and go, or is it more of
> bounce where the whole image on the screen changes from 100% display to
> 88% and then back? (or to 111% and then back)?
>
> The latter might be a hardware problem, something going soft in the CRT.
>
> Either way, you might try setting the Refresh Rate down a notch (75 to 73
> or 73 to 70, etc), or turning the bpp (or display depth) setting from
> 24bit to 16bits. I've never known anyone that could tell the difference,
> but I've heard people say they can. Regardless your system will have to
> do less work with 16bits, and you probably won't notice the difference.
Most LCDs are happiest at 60Hz. Is the display being driven at it's native
resolution? Over a DVI connection?
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