Screen Flickering during any operation, download, install, enable, disable, etc.

[sensei23]

Windows 11 with latest Nvidia game ready drivers.

Vortex 1.11.5 started with last update to Vortex

Turning GPU acceleration off does NOT fix the problem.

[Pickysaurus]

You probably have some system-wide GPU acceleration then. Check your Nvidia settings. 

[sensei23]

I could not find this setting in the Nvidia settings. Regardless, I would not hobble my whole system for this one application. Guess I will have to go back to Mod Manager.

[sensei23]

When I restarted Vortex this morning, the problem had resolved. I left the GPU acceleration off when I last closed Vortex. I did restart Vortex after I turned it off initially. However, this morning I had messages from Vortex about installing some extensions for Starfield. I did the extension installs and restarted Vortex again. After this last restart the screen flicker stopped. I am not exactly sure what triggered the change, but apparently when I first turned off GPU acceleration, the program did not pick up the change. Perhaps the extension installs plus a restart caused Vortex to finally pickup the configuration change?

[HellFreezer]

Additionally, there should be settings in Windows and/or Nvidia Control tool to individually select for each program whether to use normal graphics or the GPU accelerator (i.e. Nvidia game driver). IMPO, normal desktop apps (text based)  don't need any graphics acceleration. So probably should have that set off for better system performance,  especially power saving on laptops. Yeah?