Screen Flickering

[I-T-B]

Um, hey guys. I've been having problems playing some games on my Dell Inspiron 1525 Vista laptop. During gameplay, the screen flickers, it's not a full-screen, black flickering, but rather the bottom or top third of my screen will flicker to black, or glitch a little bit. If that description makes any sense. My laptop's specifications:

Intel Pentium Dual-Core T2390 Processor (1.86 GHz)
2 GB RAM
160 GB Hard Drive
Integrated Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 3100

I've looked up my graphics card, and it's supposedly 256 MB. If so, then I exceed the minimum system requirements for the games I've been trying, so I don't know the reason for the problem. I've gone to the Dell website and downloaded all the available driver updates for the video card, my screen refresh rate is 60 MHz, and I don't know what else to do. In case it helps, one of the better know games I've been experiencing the flicker with is Star Wars: Republic Commando (the demo, specifically). Also, I've got Halo installed on this machine, and I can play that just fine, without any sort of flickering.

Thanks in advance to anybody who's able to help me, I greatly appreciate it.

 

[Darkfly]

What game(s) are you having problems with. And second any Intel card is a bad idea for games especially more recent games, why because even those it say 256mb its an intergrated graphics card which means they are integrated onto the motherboard of the system. The result is that Integrated Graphics are slow performers. Because they have to share memory with the system, they also have to share the same memory controller as the processor. And second Intel cards on the whole are usually missing certain shaders & unfortunately most games especially nowadays need to use these shaders, etc for creating certain visual effects in game.


And to answer your Halo question, yes it will work on your pc since I have Dell laptop with an Intel card which is slightly older than yours & it runs it fine. And I've ran Star Wars: Republic Commando on my Intel card, apart from minor frame rate issues it ran reasonably well.

Or it could just be cause of a damaged lid or something but since its only happening with games I'd say its more likely just the graphics card.

 

[Scarlet spidey]

How old is your computer?
Would you say you open and close it a lot?

 

[I-T-B]

How old is your computer?
Would you say you open and close it a lot?

I just got it last week (brand new), and I believe the Inspiron 1525 came out in January of this year. I would say I open and close it an appropriate number of times per day.

 

[Scarlet spidey]

Hmm, if you just got it(From a store, not the internets), you might want to take it back and tell them what's up..
It sounded like wear and tear, but not it just sounds like it was defective.

 

[I-T-B]

Hmm, if you just got it(From a store, not the internets), you might want to take it back and tell them what's up..
It sounded like wear and tear, but not it just sounds like it was defective.

If it were some sort of defect, wouldn't it be flickering all the time, on the desktop, web browser, and everything, and not just when I try to play certain games?

 

[Scarlet spidey]

What type of games do this? Are they fullscreen?
What resolution do you normally have your computer at, and if the games that cause problems are fullscreen, what resolution are they at when you're playing them?

 

[BubbaGump]

Owned. Just kidding.

Spoiler

But yeah, owned.

It's probably not the graphic card itself, but the actual screen. If it's an LCD screen maybe the...LCDs are screwing up. But I actually sound like I know what I'm talking about. Just return it to the store.