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median bone Jan 4, 2026, 12:40 AM

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I keep getting this flickering when playing doom eternal. if you zoom into the photo you can see the dots. they appear all over the screen and ive messed with every setting i can think of. Any advice?

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this is the info eternal gives through its settings

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jaunty shoal Jan 4, 2026, 1:45 AM

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If your GPU drivers are up to date. Mess with the FPS settings. Just to see if it goes away. Swap it down to 30 fps. Disable DLSS.

median bone Jan 4, 2026, 1:45 AM

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I have an Intel igpu

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Lemme mess with fps

jaunty shoal Jan 4, 2026, 1:46 AM

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Are you running AMD?

median bone Jan 4, 2026, 1:46 AM

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No

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Would you like me to send system info

jaunty shoal Jan 4, 2026, 1:46 AM

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It says Mesa... You need AMD to utilize it properly.

median bone Jan 4, 2026, 1:47 AM

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isnt mesa for intel drivers also?

jaunty shoal Jan 4, 2026, 1:47 AM

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In general, running a CPU for games. Especially modern, 3d games is a bad idea. Lowering the resolution and frame rate will improve performance.

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No. Mesa is AMD.

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It's fine. It just won't do anything.

median bone Jan 4, 2026, 1:48 AM

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jaunty shoal In general, running a CPU for games. Especially modern, 3d games is a bad idea. ...

performance isnt an issue at all tho LOL

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its running at a great 60fps

jaunty shoal Jan 4, 2026, 1:48 AM

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That's crazy for a CPU. Well, as I said above. You can lower the FPS and or resolution. Just to see if the flickering goes away.

median bone Jan 4, 2026, 1:48 AM

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fps lowest setting is 60

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resolution didnt change anything sadly

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i used the in game command line to set anti aliasing to off and that made it worse

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so idk if its something to do with that

jaunty shoal Jan 4, 2026, 1:49 AM

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Visual errors are normal when run CPU, 3d graphics. Unfortunately.

median bone Jan 4, 2026, 1:49 AM

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these are my specs incase they help

median bone Jan 4, 2026, 1:50 AM

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jaunty shoal Visual errors are normal when run CPU, 3d graphics. Unfortunately.

this is still such a weird issue i feel like it would have a fix or something

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haven tseen it happen else where

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especially because the game isr unning just fine

jaunty shoal Jan 4, 2026, 1:50 AM

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You have a good setup. Is it possible to get a GPU in the future?

median bone Jan 4, 2026, 1:50 AM

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nah its a laptop

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i mean i didnt buy it for gaming but the cpu is still very good

jaunty shoal Jan 4, 2026, 1:50 AM

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Ah.

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Oh yeah. Mine can only run Star Craft 1 Remastered on the CPU.

median bone Jan 4, 2026, 1:51 AM

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yea the most recent generation of intel igpus

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is like really good actually

jaunty shoal Jan 4, 2026, 1:52 AM

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Aside from lowering the settings. You are as good as you're going to get. You also have the most recent Kernel update.

median bone Jan 4, 2026, 1:52 AM

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are you sure its not mesa? even their website says its for intel drivers

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https://docs.mesa3d.org/systems.html

jaunty shoal Jan 4, 2026, 1:52 AM

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Mesa does some things for games. Overall it's designed for AMD/ATI.

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Mesa has been expanding open source. The bigger deal is Vulkan drivers. Which you have.

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I'm not saying remove Mesa. I'm saying it's very limited in what it does on Nvidia and Intel. Still worth getting if you run a variety of games.

median bone Jan 4, 2026, 1:54 AM

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do you think updating it would help?

jaunty shoal Jan 4, 2026, 1:56 AM

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If I recall you're on the most recent versions. You can run a sudo apt update in your terminal.

median bone Jan 4, 2026, 2:02 AM

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alreayd up to date it says

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