Violent flickering when enabling fullscreen on any app/game.
every single app and game i enable fullscreen on, starts flickering black violently. the game and all inputs work fine, its just the flickering.
windowed fullscreen does the same, windowed mode is the only one that doesnt flicker.
it goes black and lasts around 2.5 seconds, then goes back to the game, then goes back to the black screen. its like a loop.
an interesting part is that whenever a notification pops up, an app is focused, an overlay is opened, or even when start menu is opened, the game works smoothly with no flickering.
the second this overlay/notification/whatever is closed, the screen goes back to flickering violently.
when the flickering persists for around 10 continuous seconds without doing the overlay fix, the game crashes.
its like a race, im not even joking. i have around 10 seconds to quickly pull up any type of overlay or else the game crashes.
sometimes, the game doesnt even crash. my whole gpu does. windows literally temporarily disables my gpu because of "errors" apparently. i found that out from opening device manager.
i have an RTX 5060 8gb vram and an AMD ryzen 7 8700F in my build.
im using an LG 4K 240hz OLED monitor.
here are the fixes ive tried that havent helped.
- disabling mpo (multiplane overlay)
- disabling transparency effects
- deleting xbox game bar
- disabling nvidia overlay
- removing my gpu drivers using DDU then reinstalling them
- updating my gpu drivers normally through the nvidia app
- running sfc /scannow to replace broken or missing files on windows
- changing my display resolution
- changing my display hz
- disabling g-sync
- disabling vrr (variable refresh rate) from the nvidia app
- disabling vrr from my monitors built in settings
- switching the hdmi cable for a new one
- disabling fullscreen optimizations
- disabling optimizations for windowed games
- disabling hardware accelerated gpu scheduling.
i would appreciate any help, thank you all in advance.