Monitor flickers when playing games

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I need help with either the monitor or my graphics card. When i play example: Battlefield 3 my monitor starts flickering with a black line. When i am in a darker place in the game the lines get more visible. The lines are gone if i record with fraps and look at video file fraps created. The lines are also gone if i switch to my tv in my room. I think it the monitor but this is my first build so i dont have a clue. What should i do?

Gpu: Sapphire 7970 Vapor-x 3gb Ghz edition
Monitor: Benq G2010WP LCD Monitor

(Sorry for bad English)

Picture from fraps (You cant see the lines)

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James H
I recently built a new computer and that is one of the first issues I had with the GPU was some strange lines in darker areas in games as well as on the desktop.

I fixed this issue by changing the gamma settings on the actual monitor (I think I switched it to gaming mode) and it worked.

http://www.lagom.nl/lcd-test/

Good site for making sure that your monitor is setup correctly :)

Hope this helps, try playing around with the monitor settings as well, but I would say its not your GPU.
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I recently built a new computer and that is one of the first issues I had with the GPU was some strange lines in darker areas in games as well as on the desktop.

I fixed this issue by changing the gamma settings on the actual monitor (I think I switched it to gaming mode) and it worked.

http://www.lagom.nl/lcd-test/

Good site for making sure that your monitor is setup correctly :)

Hope this helps, try playing around with the monitor settings as well, but I would say its not your GPU.
 
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jodybdesigns

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Its your overclock. if you leave your card overclocked, ALL of your digital signals will flicker. Mine does the same, turn off the overclock in CCC, the throttling the card does in the bios for voltages and clocks causes this

also, flash will cause flickering too

i have a 6870 (5870 cypress rebadge)

try using ONLY your VGA signal - unplug the DVI - bet it stops EVEN WITH your overclocks - something about SOME radeon cards VGA + DVI - im running 3 monitors off one card, an active VGA on display port - a HDMI > DVI converter > and my DVI signal, both my HDMI and DVI will flicker, my DP to VGA will not, because its being picked up as an analog signal
 
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AlmostEasyGaming

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Did You Try messing with the quality settings in the game.. I had my settings on max and the screen stopped blinking when i took it off max settings and i have a AMD Radeon HD 7850 2GB Core Edition the problem is fixed now
 
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