[SOLVED] Midieval Total War Flicker

hobosrock696 · 04-09-2008, 05:13 PM

When I play midieval total war only when I use my 3870x2 the top half of the screen flickers and i get like 6 fps in battles and on menue but crysis runs fine (with many hickups) even though my psu is too weak... Is it just the psu anyway?

**Jack.Sparrow** · 04-09-2008, 05:29 PM

Hello, Welcome to TSF.

I think you may have forgotten to include your system spec's

hobosrock696 · 04-10-2008, 10:52 AM

Oh sorry I have:
1. 3500+ @ 2.7ghz
2. 3870x2
3. 430 wat psu
4. EP-9NPA+SLI
5. 2 hds (1 sata 1 ide)
6. 2 optical drives (ide)
It worked fine when I used 2 7600gt sli...

**koala** · 04-10-2008, 11:34 AM

What make/model is your PSU? How many amps on the +12V line? 430W seems very low for dual 3870 cards.

hobosrock696 · 04-10-2008, 04:15 PM

15 amps and its antec tri rail and its a dual gpu card not 2x 3870 in cf

**koala** · 04-10-2008, 04:28 PM

15 amps is way too low. It's barely enough to power an AGP card. You need a more powerful PSU.

AGP cards need 18A/+12V and PCIE cards need 26A/+12V minimum.

Enter your full system specs into this power calculator and set Capacitor Aging to 25%. Click the Calculate button, then add 30% to the total to allow for PSU inefficiency.

EDIT: Looking in more detail, I found the Antec Trio 430W has 3 rails, 16 amps each, so you're ok there. Post back with the power calculator results anyway so we can see what's going on.

Do you have the latest graphics driver, chipset drivers and DirectX installed? Do you pass the 2 tests in Start > Run > dxdiag > Display tab?

hobosrock696 · 04-10-2008, 05:28 PM

it came up with 615 wats and plus 30% is about 815 wats...

way too low and my computer also crashed after crysis and it fried one of my fans I think its a lot too little... BTW the psu is 16A just I need 2 6 pin power connectors to my card... I think a pcpc 750 would be way enough though...

hobosrock696 · 04-13-2008, 11:05 AM

Turned off catalyst ai and its fixed

04-09-2008, 05:13 PM	#1 (permalink)
hobosrock696 Registered User Join Date: Apr 2008 Posts: 56 OS: Windows XP SP3 x86	[SOLVED] Midieval Total War Flicker When I play midieval total war only when I use my 3870x2 the top half of the screen flickers and i get like 6 fps in battles and on menue but crysis runs fine (with many hickups) even though my psu is too weak... Is it just the psu anyway?

04-09-2008, 05:29 PM	#2 (permalink)
Jack.Sparrow Resident Pirate Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Qld, Aus Posts: 17,867 OS: XP SP3/Vista SP1 My System Blog Entries: 6	Re: Midieval Total War Flicker Hello, Welcome to TSF. I think you may have forgotten to include your system spec's __________________ //PC Wizard//Speedfan//Can you run it?//Posting Screenshots//Posting System Specs//Donations//

04-10-2008, 10:52 AM	#3 (permalink)
hobosrock696 Registered User Join Date: Apr 2008 Posts: 56 OS: Windows XP SP3 x86	Re: Midieval Total War Flicker Oh sorry I have: 1. 3500+ @ 2.7ghz 2. 3870x2 3. 430 wat psu 4. EP-9NPA+SLI 5. 2 hds (1 sata 1 ide) 6. 2 optical drives (ide) It worked fine when I used 2 7600gt sli...

04-10-2008, 11:34 AM	#4 (permalink)
koala Moderator Hardware Team Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: UK Posts: 12,332 OS: XP/7/Ubuntu My System	Re: Midieval Total War Flicker What make/model is your PSU? How many amps on the +12V line? 430W seems very low for dual 3870 cards. __________________ New members: Subscribe to your thread (Thread Tools) to receive an instant email notification when you get a reply. TSF Folding@Home Team 85015 - details here

04-10-2008, 04:15 PM	#5 (permalink)
hobosrock696 Registered User Join Date: Apr 2008 Posts: 56 OS: Windows XP SP3 x86	Re: Midieval Total War Flicker 15 amps and its antec tri rail and its a dual gpu card not 2x 3870 in cf

04-10-2008, 04:28 PM	#6 (permalink)
koala Moderator Hardware Team Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: UK Posts: 12,332 OS: XP/7/Ubuntu My System	Re: Midieval Total War Flicker 15 amps is way too low. It's barely enough to power an AGP card. You need a more powerful PSU. AGP cards need 18A/+12V and PCIE cards need 26A/+12V minimum. Enter your full system specs into this power calculator and set Capacitor Aging to 25%. Click the Calculate button, then add 30% to the total to allow for PSU inefficiency. EDIT: Looking in more detail, I found the Antec Trio 430W has 3 rails, 16 amps each, so you're ok there. Post back with the power calculator results anyway so we can see what's going on. Do you have the latest graphics driver, chipset drivers and DirectX installed? Do you pass the 2 tests in Start > Run > dxdiag > Display tab? __________________ New members: Subscribe to your thread (Thread Tools) to receive an instant email notification when you get a reply. TSF Folding@Home Team 85015 - details here Last edited by koala; 04-10-2008 at 04:37 PM.

04-10-2008, 05:28 PM	#7 (permalink)
hobosrock696 Registered User Join Date: Apr 2008 Posts: 56 OS: Windows XP SP3 x86	Re: Midieval Total War Flicker it came up with 615 wats and plus 30% is about 815 wats... way too low and my computer also crashed after crysis and it fried one of my fans I think its a lot too little... BTW the psu is 16A just I need 2 6 pin power connectors to my card... I think a pcpc 750 would be way enough though...

04-13-2008, 11:05 AM	#8 (permalink)
hobosrock696 Registered User Join Date: Apr 2008 Posts: 56 OS: Windows XP SP3 x86	Re: Midieval Total War Flicker Turned off catalyst ai and its fixed