Weird graphics issues

krikit386

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I've been working in the IT field for several years, but can't find a solution. I'm getting weird graphic issues in some games on my home PC. They started about a week ago, and they're all different. For example, in Warthunder, text keeps flickering and won't go away sometimes. In Crysis 2, the player keeps flickering in a motion like he's running-so I'll be moving forward or standing still, and it will keep randomly move into the sprinting animation, though it lasts for a split second and it doesn't actually move the character. In FTL, your ship keeps almost disappearing into cloak, with the "jump" box sometimes coming down, and gets enormous lag(see the bottom). Restarting hasn't fixed it. I updated my graphics driver, which worked for a day, but the issue came back. I have noticed that the issues started soon after upgrading my CPU, MB, and RAM(though I moved from 8GB DDR2 to 4GB DDR3 if that matters). Other games are unaffected-Kerbal Space Program, Planetside 2, World of Tanks, none are having issues. I've scoured the internet but have been unable to find anyone with a similar issue.
My system specs are: 4GB RAM
AMD Radeon 5770 GPU
AMD FX 4130 Quad Core CPU (not overclocked, staying default at 3.8GHz)
ASRock 980DE3/U3S3 Motherboard
430W Power Supply
300GB HDD
Windows 7 64-Bit

I did switch my graphics card temporarily to see if that fixed anything, from the 5770 to a 7750, and it didn't fix the issues so I don't believe it's an issue with the graphics card. I did manage to fix the lag by turning off frame limiting, but the graphics issues stayed. I don't know what other forum to put this in, if it belongs in another forum please let me know. Thanks in advance for the help!
 

Bas spoel

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Don't know if it sounds stupid (since you already tested 2 diff cards)

But the games you mention above that are having issues all seem to force DirectX 11, and the games with no issues support DirectX 9. Maybe you could test something that direction. Got no idea as well otherwise. And as a standard anwnser: Re-install Windows just to test.
 

krikit386

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I already tried reinstalling DirectX, and a couple of the games-Shogun 2, for example- work just fine when using DirectX 11. I've considered reinstalling windows, but I'd really rather make that a last ditch resort. But perhaps it's the option I'll need to take. Thanks for the help.