Battlefield 3 screen flickers and goes black

It could be your  one of your graphics cards that is faulty, a monitor that is faulty or maybe a cable.  You will need to post some more information about what you have tried to solve your problem?

Here is a generel list of things you could try. Not all is relevant or  you though. I would check that my drivers is up to date. 

This list is made by a good friend Carbonic:

-Please write descriptive (also the subject line) so the right people find your question and knows what it contain
-Try restarting your computer and network equipment (routers, switches etc.)
-Try another browser (Chrome/FireFox/IE)
-Can't find your game? Make sure you have bought BF3: Premium Edition and not just Premium.
-Check the Origin server status: http://www.origin.com/us/status
-Try cleaning your browsers' cache and temporary files using CCleaner (http://www.piriform.com/ccleaner)
-Try repairing your game in Origin (right click -> repair)
-Try reloading your games in Origin
-Check if Punkbuster is running correctly and update it manually (https://help.ea.com/in/article/punkbuster-technical-issues)
-Make sure Origin doesn't have connection issues (https://help.ea.com/article/connection-issues-with-origin)
-Make sure the correct ports for BF3 is open (https://help.ea.com/article/online-ports-for-battlefield-3)
-Try reinstalling Origin by manually uninstalling first (https://help.ea.com/article/manually-uninstalling-origin) + make sure it's the newest version
-Try reinstalling the game by manually uninstalling first (https://help.ea.com/article/How-to-manually-uninstall-Battlefield-3)
-Try setting bf3.exe as a trusted application in the windows(/other) firewall
-If you have a Realtek soundcard try disabling it in the BIOS
-Try deleting the BF3 Settings folder in C:/Users/USERNAME/My Documents/Battlefield 3
-Try doing a UOtrace to EA's servers to check for problems - https://help.ea.com/article/how-to-uo-trace
-Update ALL your drivers especially the graphics card but also components like soundcards, network card, motherboard/chipset, headset and mouse+keyboard, to the newest version, if the problem came with a new driver then remove that driver and downgrade to the driver that worked.
-Use Windows eventviewer to look at the error in xml and copy/paste the solution here
-Run Origin and Battlefield 3 as administrator (http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/ff431742.aspx)
-Go to the cloud button on BF3 and uncheck the “enable cloud storage for all games” box. Launch the game, quit it and re-enable the cloud storage box. Make sure to use the local data when the information box popping up.
-Check the READ FIRST post http://answers.ea.com/t5/Battlefield-3/READ-FIRST-Known-issues-guides-and-FAQs/m-p/215092/highlight/... most answers are in there
-Look at this handy dandy post: http://answers.ea.com/t5/Battlefield-3/Battlefield-3-fixes-guide-read-carefully/td-p/76264
-Banned? Read this: (https://help.ea.com/in/article/information-about-banned-or-suspended-accounts)

If none of this worked, post relevant logfiles, screenshots, descriptions, exact errormessages, and all other relevant information(like platform) - even if it's stupid and obvious (there's alot of clueless people on the internet ;-) )

Please accept solutions if they are correct and press the XP button if somebody helped you. This way you help others in the same situation.

Kind regards, Tviggah

Can we add that it could be nVidia's Drivers? I am using GTX 780 and am too experiencing black artifacts-like flickers till I ALT+TAB out of the game and ALT+TAB back into the game, the flickers are gone. Strange I can say.