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Screen flickering on mouse click when fps is limited

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  • Mice
  • Games
  • FPS
  • Graphics
October 11, 2014 4:55:26 PM

Like the title says, my screen flickers in white color for less than a second whenever mouse is clicked.

The odd thing is that it only happens when I limit the max fps. I think it only occurs with borderless window mode (or fullscreen windowed). One thing to note is that the flicker from mouse clicks is similar to the flicker that happens when I change focus to/from the game from/to another window.

I have two monitors, and have tested it with both monitors (playing the game on each monitor).

I noticed that only MMORPG games do this. The games that cause the flickers include WoW, Tera, and Neverwinter. The list of games that I've tried that doesn't cause flickers includes Metro last light, Company of heroes 2, Middle earth shadow of mordor, Dota 2, Team fortress 2, Diablo 3.

Hardware:
CPU: Intel Core i7-5930K
GPU: MSI GTX 980 Twin Frozr V
Motherboard: ASUS Rampage V Extreme
RAM: G.SKILL Ripjaws 4 series 16GB DDR4 2666
Storage: Samsung SSD 850 Pro 256 GB
PSU: EVGA SuperNOVA 1000 P2

My worst fear is that my graphics card is defective. Could that be the case?

Please let me know what additional information or tests can help determine the cause for this.

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