UI Flickering in High Population Zones

I'm having an interesting problem since the newest patch. Occasionally in high population zones such as Mor Dhona, when turning the camera or jumping my UI (Chat, Quest tracker, skill bars) will flicker off and then on again. This is very quick and only noticeable if you pay attention to it. It does not happen in low population areas.

I have tried changing from windowed to borderless windowed to fullscreen and that changes nothing. I have tried disabling Occlusion Culling as I thought that may be the issue but no such luck.

My PC setup:

Intel i7 3770k
Sabretooth Z77 Mobo
EVGA GTX 780 6GB
8GB DDR3

Does anyone have insight into this kind of issue?

Getting the same issue here. Played around with every setting in the Graphics Settings menu, nothing seemed to affect it.

My PC:
AMD Phenom II X4 3.2Ghz
Asus M4A79XTD Evo mobo
ATI Radeon HD 4890
4 GB DDR3
Windows 7 64 bit

Edit: It seems to be directly caused by the amount of people on screen. Under System Config > Other Settings > Display Limits, setting the "Character and Object Quantity" to Low or Minimum gets rid of the flickering; Normal and higher has flickering.

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Originally Posted by Eits

Getting the same issue here. Played around with every setting in the Graphics Settings menu, nothing seemed to affect it.

My PC:
AMD Phenom II X4 3.2Ghz
Asus M4A79XTD Evo mobo
ATI Radeon HD 4890
4 GB DDR3
Windows 7 64 bit

Edit: It seems to be directly caused by the amount of people on screen. Under System Config > Other Settings > Display Limits, setting the "Character and Object Quantity" to Low or Minimum gets rid of the flickering; Normal and higher has flickering.

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Can confirm this as well. Setting it to minimum or low yields no flickering.

Found out something else that hopefully helps in fixing this. I can force the flicker to happen (even with the display limit set to minimum) by having players on the screen and pressing the Target Filters button (default is the X key, I think) to remove the names on screen. Specifically, the flicker happens when letting go of the X key and the names reappear.

Also experiencing this. An FC mate was having this problem as well.

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Originally Posted by Eits

Found out something else that hopefully helps in fixing this. I can force the flicker to happen (even with the display limit set to minimum) by having players on the screen and pressing the Target Filters button (default is the X key, I think) to remove the names on screen. Specifically, the flicker happens when letting go of the X key and the names reappear.

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Yup same for me.. so this seems to be a valid issue. Any way to bring this more to SE's eye?

Yep same happening to me, it didn't do it until the most recent patch for me.

Same thing is happening to me as well.

I5-3570K
MSI-Z77A-G45 Mobo
Zotac GTX 770 2GB
Windows 8.1 64 bit

I only experience this in high population areas however,

Ya same here i guess it's a issue they would later have to patch.

I'm having this same issue on PS4.

Yeah same issue here and also world flicker since 2.3 landed, it was fine before.

2x 680GTX

Same problem. GTX 780, windows 8.1.

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Originally Posted by IoneNightshade

I'm having an interesting problem since the newest patch. Occasionally in high population zones such as Mor Dhona, when turning the camera or jumping my UI (Chat, Quest tracker, skill bars) will flicker off and then on again. This is very quick and only noticeable if you pay attention to it. It does not happen in low population areas.

I have tried changing from windowed to borderless windowed to fullscreen and that changes nothing. I have tried disabling Occlusion Culling as I thought that may be the issue but no such luck.

My PC setup:

Intel i7 3770k
Sabretooth Z77 Mobo
EVGA GTX 780 6GB
8GB DDR3

Does anyone have insight into this kind of issue?

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I can confirm this too!

i7 920 D0 @ 3.8Ghz
EVGA GTA 680 4GB
12GB DDR3

same issue here I find it annoying especially since I am on a ps4 and have no control over the graphics.

Having the same issue no other graphically issues. Just some text and some HUD elements flickering in high traffic areas.

And I thought I was the only one!
I, too, experience this in Mor Dhona. Thought it was strange that it only happens there (and most importantly only the UI!), then I noticed it in Limsa too.

Phenom II X4 955 3.20GHz
HD7870
8GB RAM

as has been noted, hiding player names (or just those who are not on your friends list) resolves the problem.

Same issue here, ps4 version.

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as has been noted, hiding player names (or just those who are not on your friends list) resolves the problem.

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Doesn't seem like THE solution. I don't think you should have to do that.

Having issues with this as well since 2.3 hit. Also, MAJOR graphical artifacts where none were present before (even in low population areas..like an FC housing room. With 3 furnishings.)
Tested this on two different computers and updated drivers afterward just to be certain, but the problems persist. A lot of people on reddit also have similar problems. The below link is just showing off the odd graphical glitches that occur along with the flickering UI.

FX8350 4ghz
MSI R9 270X 2gb.
8gig g.skill ripjaws DDR3

http://i.imgur.com/wEORIzO.jpg

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Originally Posted by Coris

Doesn't seem like THE solution. I don't think you should have to do that.

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Exactly I wasn't having this issue at all before 2.3 in the exact same situations. My PC is hardly a toaster.

Same thing happening to me, mainly in Mor Dhona. UI flickers when lots of people are on the screen.

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Originally Posted by Orson_Dara

Exactly I wasn't having this issue at all before 2.3 in the exact same situations. My PC is hardly a toaster.

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This "fixes" it but isn't a solution. The solution rests with SE. Until they do something about it, I guess it's something I can live with but hardly optimal.

Hi,
I think i have the same problem.
Just started playing the game and kinda overstrained.
http://www.directupload.net/file/d/3...qoqmqc_png.htm
This occures whenever a character moves, I move or the Camera changes its position.
By changing the Display Limits the problem doesnt dissapear, but at least I can walk without getting epileptic seizures.
I hope this will be fixed soon :(

Looks like this got fixed in todays hotfix. Nice work SE =)