nvidia driver causes enemy-territory to flicker

[Richard E Miles]

On Tue, 2004-07-06 at 17:34, Richard E Miles wrote:

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>>>>>>>> >>>>>> The new 1.0-6106 nvidia driver causes wolfenstein enemy-territoy to 
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>>>>>> >>>> I don't have that problem. Check your config for et.
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>>>> >> Scott, where do I find a config file for et? The only configuration I am 
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>>> >I'm not Scott, but anyway... he may be talking about the .etwolf 
>>> >directory in your home directory. You can move that somewhere else for 
>>> >the moment, then run the game. All settings will be reset, and hopefully 
>>> >the flickering thing disappears.
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>> It turns out that Scott was right. While the screen flickered I was able to change the default 800x600 resolution to 1280x1024 and it stopped the flickering. Funny though when I used an 8kstakes kernel this problem of flickering at 800x600 resoluion did not occur. 
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>> Richard E Miles
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> BTW From what I remember.

> Some flickering is caused by a monitor sweep rate being just off (S.A.
> 51 or 61 Hz) line frequency since the human eye is fairly slow in
> response. When this happens you get a beat frequency between the
> lighting and the monitor.

> Under normal situations the eye does not see the repetitive dimming of
> the light (or monitor), but, when there is a difference of frequency of,
> say, between 0.5 and 10 cycles per second the eye is capable of seeing
> the flicker.

> You can check to see if this is the cause by turning off the room
> lights. If the flicker goes away this is most likely the problem.
 > -- > jludwig <wralphie at comcast.net> I probably somewhat misstated the 
problem by saying it was flickering (must be my age) It was a shimmering 
effect i.e. the image sort of vibrated. Anyway changing to 1280x1024 
fixed the problem. (It now no longer shimmers at this resolution).

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Richard E Miles
Federal Way WA.
registered linux user 46097