The HD5850 prices are starting to drop, so is the flicker bug....

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...in 2d still an issue, or was it ever? I am torn between a reduced HD5850 and a factory OC'ed GTX460.
 
vick1000 said:
...in 2d still an issue, or was it ever? I am torn between a reduced HD5850 and a factory OC'ed GTX460.
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I've owned a 5870 and two 5850's and have never had a 2D flickering bug, ever.
 
I've also owned two 5850s and had absolutely no issues. If you're keeping the cards stock you may want to go with a 5850. Otherwise I'd go with a 460 and OC it yourself, no reason to get a factory overclocked model.
 
FWIW, I used to have the flickering in some videos but the 10.8s took care of it.
 
The only time I get flicker with my 5850 is when a Flash video first loads. You can get rid of it by disabling hardware acceleration but it's still kind of lame.
 
I get flicker on my 5870, i had to edit a profile to leave the memory 1200 and disable hardware acceleration on flash to get rid of it.
 
ooh, the flicker bug.


i usually play 3d only games, but after my last driver update (at the same time the game updated) i can no longer play plants vs zombies with 3d acceleration. its the only instance of a flickering issue. the graphics freeze and flicker between 2 frames.

5850 cf
 
Only flickering i get is everyonce and awhile on the desktop in Eyefinity. Fine otherwise.

Using 10.4a. Xfire 5850.
 
same here the 460 maybe be a good card but I would still go for the 5850 for hte bang for the money
 
King Icewind said:
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You get Metro 2033. Starcraft is only a Demo.

The latest update for Metro borked the game for me. It crashes right on start up. Haven't been able to fix it yet. :(

The 460 is good card, but I would've opted for the 5850. :p
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Metro 2033 and Mafia 2 (I got it before the deadline).
 
The flicker bug you are referring to is a flicker after you watch something hardware accelerated, or when one of your monitors occasionally flicker? If it's the latter I'm glad I ran into this thread as I was about to toss that monitor thinking the backlight was going out.
 
Ryokurin said:
The flicker bug you are referring to is a flicker after you watch something hardware accelerated, or when one of your monitors occasionally flicker? If it's the latter I'm glad I ran into this thread as I was about to toss that monitor thinking the backlight was going out.
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The hardware accelerated flicker (when you first open the video) is caused by the GPU clock speed ramping up. Now... I had this with my 4890 and the 10.4a's, but once I installed my 5850 and the 10.8a's, I no longer experience that. Can't tell if it was the 5850 or the new drivers. O well, i'm not complaining!
 
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