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Mal_Sovereign
9 years ago
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Pixels flickering and then main menu freeze.

After 4 days of surfing and searching solutions in every answer found by google, coming up with nothing, I've decided to just directly ask for help. My system: HP Pavilion m6-1058ca Intel(R) C...
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    EA_David
    9 years ago

    Thanks for the update. I suspect there may be some issues with the Radeon card. The only real steps to try are a clean driver install, but if this has no effect i fear that there's a physical issue with the card. 


    However it's not very powerful and if the HD4000 is doing its job acceptably then you should be ok going forward. 

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EA_David
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9 years ago

@Mal_Sovereign This is quite odd alright. My instinct is that it's a hardware error that expresses itself when running certain DX components, but I don't want to say definitely yet. The DAO issues obviously suggest rendering problems before the freeze, but the LoL BSODs stand out a lot more. Do you still get these now?

Can you check whether you're using the Radeon 7600M or the HD4000? Generally the HD4000 will sit idle while the 7600M does the grunt work, if you disable one or the other as a test does that give useful info?

Also are you grabbing drivers from the intel/AMD sites directly or are you using a package from HP? I know some time back there were some problems with Pavilions and their driver updates, but I haven't heard anything on it in a while, so I think it's no longer an issue. 

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Mal_Sovereign
9 years ago

So, I honestly can't thank you enough because that worked.

I tried disabling HD4000 first and it fixed the rendering issues but the frame rate in-game was really low even with everything in low settings (when I got to play I could play everything in Max just fine and with HD texture mods). I then tried disabling Radeon 7600M and it seems like that fixed it because both games run smoothly (No BSOD from LoL and I let it run for some minutes in a costume game).

I don't know how to check which one it was using but it looks like it works just fine with the HD4000 by itself. I wouldn't want to sit with this fix in case it gives problems in a future, would it? And yes, I was grabbing the drivers directly from the official sites. 

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    EA_David
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    9 years ago

    Thanks for the update. I suspect there may be some issues with the Radeon card. The only real steps to try are a clean driver install, but if this has no effect i fear that there's a physical issue with the card. 


    However it's not very powerful and if the HD4000 is doing its job acceptably then you should be ok going forward. 

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