Catbirby

As of several months ago my Dell Inspiron 5577 has started to have a screen flicker. This only seems to happen when certain background "updates" are happening with Windows. This includes stuff like plugging/unplugging a USB drive, connecting a Bluetooth device, uninstalling + reinstalling drivers, and changing resolutions (there is also the same flicker on external displays). This does not happen when doing intensive tasks like editing or rendering video in After Effects/Premier Pro, heavy gaming, or other resource hungry tasks. This happened while I was on 1803, didn't fix when updating to 1809 or 1903, I initially started out with the standard stress tests, and ran a memtest, the memtest was fine and the other two tests never resulted in flickering. Then I thought this was a driver issue, so I had updated both my integrated graphics and then my dedicated graphics, also even tried a BIOS update, No luck. I decided to take the laptop apart, do a full cleaning, re-apply thermal paste, and make sure the display cable was secure, still not fixed. I have a friend who has the same laptop that wasn't having the issue, so I tried a temporary screen-swap. it still had the flickering issue. I've fully replaced the NVMe drive with a fresh install of windows 10 with still no luck. It's not really effecting the experience majorly, as it is pretty few and far in between. But it is distracting when it happens, I'm wanting to sell the laptop soon and this issue would probably be a deal-breaker to most people. I'm at a full loss of ideas on what to try next.

The issue is persistent with vSync turned off or on.

Recently I got a new laptop (Dell Inspiron 5577) and felt like playing some Fallout 3 on it. But I've run into several issues. When trying to use an enb. I receive an error relating to windows 10 creators update not plating nicely with the d3d9.dll file (less important but if there are any ideas or suggestions it'd be greatly appreciated). After finally giving up on the idea of using enb. I booted up the game and began playing, but there's is obnoxious tear diagonally (top left to bottom right) through my screen while playing. I don't seem to run into this with any other games (Fallout 4 Dishonored 2, Skyrim Special Edition, etc.). Out of a general curiosity, I was wondering if anyone here knows anything about the issue

Very nice projector, would definitely like to get lucky with the giveaway

I might look at changing if that's the case.

I've always used Mega, because of the automatic 50GB of space, and I haven't had any issues with it.

I'd definitely do that first before posting a thread about the issue.

This'll probably be unfixable unless you get a new screen for it, you *never* want to use windex on screens, it ruins them. http://www.howtogeek.com/170080/the-how-to-geek-guide-to-cleaning-your-lcd-monitor-screen/

I'd suggest monitoring the temperature, to check if it's overheating, and check if everything is securely plugged in.

You are actually able to enable this, if you use WinAreo tweaker, at the moment.

sudo apt-get install wine should work, the 1.8 may be missing certain files.

Faster would be awesome, but this it the fastest internet provided for my area, and it's the fastest internet I've ever had.

It can be quite helpful, imo.

Razer fanboy, lol.

Personally, I think that you'd be better off building your own, if you do it right, it could save you a lump sum of money.