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lojik
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Being the eternal tinckerer that I am i had to go and install the latest official det drivers from the Nvidia webbie, even though my existing drivers were working perfectly. Having got them installed, I fired up BF1942 and to my dismay entered flicker hell. As help to anyone who encounters the same problems here is how i fixed it. The OS was win ME btw so i probably deserved all i got 
Using the drivers refresh rate inbuilt over-ride for D3D settings did not help. In the drivers I set 1024x768 to 120Hz but on entering the game it still flickered.
I then manually set the refresh rate for that resolution in Windows to 120Hz but still it flickered. I finally figured out that in this driver version, setting the global Windows refresh rate for a resolution only works for that colour depth. So that setting Windows to 1024x768 in 16 bit colour, doesn't make Windows run at 120hz in 32 bit colour. You have to manually set the refresh rate for each resolution PLUS each colour depth (or at least I did)
That finally stopped BF1942 from flickering, but the in game text was then screwed. To fix THIS I had to again manually disable anti-aliasing. Just having it set to "allow applications to control anti aliasing mode" was not good enough. You have to have it manually set to "Off (no anti aliasing)"
You all may have been doing all these things for ages, but with driver version 30.82 none of this was necessary for me, so i offer this up to help anyone else who suddenly finds BF misbehaving after this driver update.
Using the drivers refresh rate inbuilt over-ride for D3D settings did not help. In the drivers I set 1024x768 to 120Hz but on entering the game it still flickered.
I then manually set the refresh rate for that resolution in Windows to 120Hz but still it flickered. I finally figured out that in this driver version, setting the global Windows refresh rate for a resolution only works for that colour depth. So that setting Windows to 1024x768 in 16 bit colour, doesn't make Windows run at 120hz in 32 bit colour. You have to manually set the refresh rate for each resolution PLUS each colour depth (or at least I did)
That finally stopped BF1942 from flickering, but the in game text was then screwed. To fix THIS I had to again manually disable anti-aliasing. Just having it set to "allow applications to control anti aliasing mode" was not good enough. You have to have it manually set to "Off (no anti aliasing)"
You all may have been doing all these things for ages, but with driver version 30.82 none of this was necessary for me, so i offer this up to help anyone else who suddenly finds BF misbehaving after this driver update.