Guild Wars 2

It does not actually mess with my game while playing, just while loading as far as I can tell.

The game will look like it’s switching from full screen to windowed mode over and over (showing the desktop while doing it) when loading then once the loading is done the game will play normally. If there is a loading screen it will do this crazy flickering. It did not do this before as I would remember something like this but I can’t pinpoint when as I play this game on and off.

I don’t want to use windowed mode or the like, so I have not tried it as a solution as I’d like to play in Fullscreen.

My specs are i5 2500k, 8gb RAM, and a single Radeon 7970. Like I said before I used to play it without the flickering, but now I feel like playing some other MMO due to it and I would rather not do that.

As far as I saw it on my machine, this could happen if you force a certain refresh rate in the game options instead of using the default setting. In the corresponding drop down list in the game options, I can choose between 59 Hz, 60 Hz and Standard. Not using Standard causes this flickering.

Thank you for the suggestion.

I have tried putting it directly on 60hz and switching back to Standard. Both settings still cause the flickering sadly.

I put it on Fullscreen Windowed mode to see if the flickering persisted. It did not, but the game took a nose-dive FPS wise (usually 55+, went down to 22).

Have you tried Fullscreen Windowed mode? That’s what I use for my dual monitor setup.

It flickers as well if the fullscreen resolution of GW2 is not the same as your Windows desktop resolution. For example, if you have Windows on 1920×1080 and GW2 fullscreen on 1280×720 instead of 1920×1080 as well, the monitor will flicker when GW2 activates the different resolution.