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nrempel

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Registered: 2010-12-27

Posts: 37

[SOLVED] Flickering dots in some games

I am experiencing graphical issues with a few games I play and I'm wondering if anyone else has seen anything like this.  I have done plenty of searching with no results.

Here is an example of the problem I am experiencing: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_tqWo55 … age#t=41s/.

I get these flickering dots in some 3D games I play.  I have experienced this in Minecraft and Heroes of Newerth.  This is not isolated to Arch since I had the same issue when I was running Ubuntu.  The strange thing is, the game can sometimes run for up to 10 minutes without this problem and then it just starts as if something triggers it.

Some info:

Intel® HD Graphics 3000 (used in 2nd Generation Intel® Core™ i7 processor family)

Mesa 7.11.1-1
xf86-video-intel 2.17.0-1

Has anyone seen this kind of problem before?  Besides this issue, things seem to run pretty smoothly (when not recording).

Thanks,
Nick

Last edited by nrempel (2011-11-29 06:42:03)

mongrol

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Registered: 2010-01-06

Posts: 31

Re: [SOLVED] Flickering dots in some games

Here ya go.

http://phoronix.com/forums/showthread.p … corruption

https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=39730

nrempel

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Registered: 2010-12-27

Posts: 37

Re: [SOLVED] Flickering dots in some games

Mongrol, thank you very much for the links.  I knew I couldn't be the only one experiencing this issue.  I will apply the kernel patch mentioned in the second link and hope for the best.