• ramses
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Topic: Totalmix flickers (Win7) with either GT730M or

Hi,

is there a solution for the problem that TM flickers on those Nvidia Graphic cards ?

See this report for Lenovo W520 - Nvidia Quadro 1000M - 2GB:
http://recording.de/Community/Forum/Har … .html#P_12

I also remember that I had the same issue on my business Laptop 2y ago, also Win7.
When I configured TM to run not on Intel HD graphic but on nVidia GPU, then it instantly flickered quickly.
Lenovo T540P - Nvidia GT 730M - 1GB

Could this be fixed somehow ? Or what information do you require ?

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2 Reply by cyrano (edited by cyrano 2016-04-01 09:57:13)

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Re: Totalmix flickers (Win7) with either GT730M or

Stupid question:

Is there any advantage for you when running on the nVidia GPU?

I used to have a Macbook with dual GPU's and never found an advantage when running on the nVidia, unless doing video rendering in Black Magic's Da Vinci Resolve, which uses CUDA.

Unfortunately, the Macbook died because of the nVidia GPU...

However, I don't play games. That could be faster on the nVidia.

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Re: Totalmix flickers (Win7) with either GT730M or

I ask mainly for a guy who has only a Laptop with nVidia GPU on it ....

I heard now he found an information, that "D2D" needs to be deactivated in TotalMix.

"Graphics
   • Use D2D (Change requires restart). Default on. Can be deactivated to use a compatible but CPU-taxing graphics mode, in case graphics problems show up.."

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Re: Totalmix flickers (Win7) with either GT730M or

Sorry, my misunderstanding.

IIRC D2D is DirectX, gaming technology. I hope you're not counting on disabling DirectX alltogether.

I think your info comes from the FF400 manual. And it might be outdated info. I don't know, I've never had that problem.

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Re: Totalmix flickers (Win7) with either GT730M or

you should check in nVidia Optimus settings which gpu is defined for Totalmix.exe smile

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Re: Totalmix flickers (Win7) with either GT730M or

ok thanks wink

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Re: Totalmix flickers (Win7) with either GT730M or

Also, disable the screen saver. This stopped the flickering immediately for me!