I have a problem in this game that is killing immersion for me, often when I am walking around the textures will flicker black for no apparent reason and the sound will also flicker whilst this happens. I have up to date nVidia drivers for my gtx 580 (+ i7 2600k) and Battlefield 3 runs perfectly so I doubt it is my system.

The odd thing is when I record with fraps the problem does not occur, as soon as the recording stops the flicker is back again! I have no idea why this would be the case as it makes no sense.

I managed to get a couple of screenshots of what the background mountain looks like (before and during flicker).

https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-AR58us3zTIk/Tr_Fut0HCpI/AAAAAAAAaCE/TQnyG4WtMUc/s1024/ScreenShot4.jpg

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-y-8serWpKYY/Tr_GVKoD_xI/AAAAAAAAaCM/mt-Spt8gbrg/s1024/ScreenShot3.jpg

It doesn't quite look as dark as that in the actual game, more grey and flickery than consistent black.

I hope modders can turn this into a reasonable console port too and not the joke it is now, the UI is killing me, very disappointed.

I also just noticed it flickers (screen flickers darker) even when I am just looking at something close up with no mountains in view so it seems to be flickering all the time for me, it did not seem to do this in the escape introduction sequence.

Could this be because I have vsync disabled in nVidia Control Panel? I have not changed any .ini settings apart from mouse acceleration.

Ok it seems to have been a vsync issue (fraps was recording at 60fps so as soon as it went back to 100+ when the recording stopped the flickering returned).

I have nvidia control panel on use application settings now, but I would like to disable vsync without having this issue (doing it in the ini file didn't work for me before) because I cannot play with the mouse lag vsync causes. Any ideas?