Screen Flickers Randomly During Gameplay

[WestsideSlum]

So, I've tried a ton of things I could think of. Have tried researching, reinstalling, setting graphics to defaults but haven't been able to solve this issue. My friend that plays with me told me they've never heard of this happening to anyone, either. It also only happens when playing City of Heroes, no other game has ever done this before.
 

For some reason, during gameplay, the screen will randomly flicker to black for like a millisecond. It typically happens when I open a popup, ie, clicking on a contact, opening the contact list or scrolling through the badges on the nav menu, getting the 'Invention Scrap found' popup, or opening the main menu. 

Is there anyone who has had this issue before, and knows of a solution?

 

*EDIT: It's been a few days, and I've yet to see the issue. Unfortunately, I have tried so many things that I'm not quite sure what ended up resolving the issue, but it seems like doing a clean install of my graphics drivers, as well as lowering the FSAA setting from 32 to 8 is what stopped this issue from happening at the very least as much as it was. 
Knock on wood because this issue did happen randomly and I don't have any way to force it to replicate, but so far it has yet to happen in the few hours I've been playing

 

**EDIT: Issue seems to still be happening. Not sure what else to try, but I think I will just stop playing for now.

Edited January 27 by WestsideSlum

[Captain Fabulous]

6 hours ago, WestsideSlum said:

So, I've tried a ton of things I could think of. Have tried researching, reinstalling, setting graphics to defaults but haven't been able to solve this issue. My friend that plays with me told me they've never heard of this happening to anyone, either. It also only happens when playing City of Heroes, no other game has ever done this before.
 

For some reason, during gameplay, the screen will randomly flicker to black for like a millisecond. It typically happens when I open a popup, ie, clicking on a contact, opening the contact list or scrolling through the badges on the nav menu, getting the 'Invention Scrap found' popup, or opening the main menu. 

Is there anyone who has had this issue before, and knows of a solution?

It would help to know what hardware you have. CoH uses OpenGL, not DirectX, and it could be an issue there. Sounds like you're getting the flicker whenever you manipulate 2D UI elements that are sitting on top of the 3D rendered game world.

[WestsideSlum]

20 minutes ago, Captain Fabulous said:

It would help to know what hardware you have. CoH uses OpenGL, not DirectX, and it could be an issue there. Sounds like you're getting the flicker whenever you manipulate 2D UI elements that are sitting on top of the 3D rendered game world.

Thank you for the response. Here's my specs

Processor    AMD Ryzen 5 3600
Installed RAM    32.0 GB

GPU   NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060
 

And, is that something I can look into then? Maybe some update for OpenGL, or a setting in the NVIDIA control panel?

Edited January 23 by WestsideSlum

[Captain Fabulous]

Make sure you're using the latest Nvidia drivers. If so trying doing a clean install. You can also try doing a game file verification and graphics setting reset. Another thing to try is to put all the graphics options on the lowest setting, see if the problem persists. If not then you can adjust settings one by one until you find the one(s) that cause the problem.

[WestsideSlum]

10 minutes ago, Captain Fabulous said:

Make sure you're using the latest Nvidia drivers. If so trying doing a clean install. You can also try doing a game file verification and graphics setting reset. Another thing to try is to put all the graphics options on the lowest setting, see if the problem persists. If not then you can adjust settings one by one until you find the one(s) that cause the problem.

i will give these things a try. thank you