Occasional screen flickering

[CaesarAug]

I’m starting to notice occasional screen flickering in SC War in the Pacific. Though it may be actually be across the entire SC series of games, being perhaps a bit more prominent in WitP.

I’m playing on an Intel-based Core 9 185H Geekom GT1-Mega Mini PC, 32 GB DDR-5 RAM, Intel Arc Graphics (latest update), monitor is an LG 27UL500-W, 60Hz, 4K scaled at 200%. Game files are located on an external WD Game HDD.

I’ve looked the issue on Internet and have adjusted Intel Arc Graphics settings and played around with capping refresh rate to 60Hz, V-Sync On or V-Sync SmoothSync, AMD Freesync on/off, Response time on/off.

The game runs well but the occasional screen flickering persists (both with monitor connected via HDMI 2.0 and also via Display Port 1.4-to-USB-C Alt) usually when a pop up message appears. I have managed to reduce the incidents with the adjustments referenced earlier.

I have yet to test this on another gaming monitor with QHD resolution with same connection ports.

EDIT: Same occasional flicker issue with another 27-inch 1440p proper gaming monitor with higher refresh rates.

[Hubert Cater]

Could you tell me when you see the flickering?

Is it while in the game map? Or somewhere else?

Or when running some kind of specific sequence, like opening different in game panels and screens or closing them etc.?