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SystemSystem Member, NoReporting Posts: 178,019 Arc User
edited January 2011 in Graphical and Sound Issues
I have a Nvidia Geforce 9800 GTX+ and everything looks great. i am on default settings with the game and i noticed that in most cases when i am either in certain areas or hailing some one the lights flicker like the room has a florescent light issue. when i twik the settings it goes away for a while, but when i leave the game and return it comes back. this started after season 2.
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  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited December 2010
    I have a Nvidia Geforce 9800 GTX+ and everything looks great. i am on default settings with the game and i noticed that in most cases when i am either in certain areas or hailing some one the lights flicker like the room has a florescent light issue. when i twik the settings it goes away for a while, but when i leave the game and return it comes back. this started after season 2.

    Is this on tribble or holodeck, why i ask is that i have the same card.

    Each time i go onto holodeck, i have to reset my settings which fixes the issue. Iam not sure whats causing the flickering but i wish it would stop lol. I know when i go to holodeck i never have a issue.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited December 2010
    Is this on tribble or holodeck, why i ask is that i have the same card.

    Each time i go onto holodeck, i have to reset my settings which fixes the issue. Iam not sure whats causing the flickering but i wish it would stop lol. I know when i go to holodeck i never have a issue.

    i have yet to go into tribble or holodeck this is only in the main game. space and ground and when there is a hail up. when i reset the settings it goes back to normal but i have to do this every time i play.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited December 2010
    holodeck is the main shard, so if you can test on the tribble shard and compare it might check if its a holodeck only issue atm, grab a dxdiag and make sure you drivers are uptodate or revert to a driver that works.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited December 2010
    hmmm i have 2 ideas for that:


    1: you got the latest driver? cuz one of the last few geforce drivers had an issue that made the contacts in the text popups flicker for me too, the latest driver (260.99) fixed that.

    2: maybe you have shadows set to low but dynamic lighting on, shut dynamic lighting off and it will stop or put shadows to high and it will stop,
    but shadows on high might result in stuttering with the latest nvidia driver.



    if your game doesn't save your settings then something else is very wrong.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited December 2010
    I have similar grphical problems since season 3 went live. I have found out that setting the lighting quality to low solves the problem, but its only a less-than-ideal solution.

    Thank you for reading.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited December 2010
    Lowering maxed shadowed lights may help with the flickering too.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited January 2011
    I have noticed that turning down the Bloom Intensity (default 100%) to around 10 - 30% solves a lot of flickering lights such as the flickering warp nacelles. Also fixes some really silly reflections from ships and asteroids.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited January 2011
    Please fix the flickering Nacelles , it is so anoying.
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