MSI Graphics Card - R7850 - Black Flashes In Game / Monitor twitch.

Question

Purchased the card and worked perfect for around a week, now I am getting this constant black flash in all my games, it last around 1 second and happens every 5-8 minutes.
This is very annoying and I am disappointed about paying £250 for this major issue.
Currently I have tried all versions of the drivers, 13.1 13.Beta, driver sweeper, fresh OS install the lot. I could understand maybe if it had done it form the start, but it worked fine and now it is doing this.
Temperatures are fine.
I5 3570K with Hyper 212 EVO cooler - Never above 50 at max
600W PSU
The odd thing is it only happens in certain games.
League Of Legends, Starcraft 2, but not in games for example DayZ
I would really would like fixing I am not happy paying this much money,
Is it drivers? ( If so can I return it, I am not waiting for drivers to fix a faulty product )
or do I need to RMA? Surely not if it doesnt happen in some games.
Will get video footage sometime

Answer 1

ISSUE SOLVED WITH MULTIPLE FIXES
Ok Guys, Im going to be updating how I fixed the issue for those that read, My monitor is a 1080p  75hz monitor, even though I KNOW its 60hz The Catalyst ( CCC )
Program ( EIED ) Was telling me it was 75hz. So I manually set it to 60hz and everything appeared fine. However the flickers started,
I donwloaded software called Radeon Pro and created a new profile.
I click add new profile, when to the ATI folder and added it. Forced the settings I wanted like in CCC and disabled overdrive ( It still downclocks which is nice )
however this is just personal taste, what actually solved the issue was there was an option to manually force a refresh rate of 60Hz.
All I do now is run the profile just to make sure each time ( Im sure its auto anyway) and the flicker has stopped. The reason I believe the issue was happening was my FPS were going past 75, then down to 50 quickly in fast games like SC2 and LoL and the flicker happened. So the refresh rates were getting confused even though it said 60hz in CCC and I tried Vsync.
ALSO!
Coinciding with the fix I also set my games to borederless at the same time of doing the fix mentioned above so that may be the fix or the RadeonPro thing. Yet to test it fullscreen so try that.
Authough forcing 2d clocks didnt work for me, here is how to do it.
Open CCC, top left make a new profile, Close CCC.
Enable Hidden folders ( Search folder options )
The go to Your name on your PC -
APP Data
LOCAL
ATI
and go to your new Profile
EDIT IN NOTEPAD
and look for
   <Property name="Want_0" value="30000" />
          <Property name="Want_1" value="80000" />
        </Feature>
        <Feature name="PowerControl_PCI_VEN_1002&amp;DEV_679A&amp;SUBSYS_27601462&amp;REV_00_4&amp;BAB4994&amp;0&amp;0008A">
          <Property name="Want" value="0" />
        </Feature>
        <Feature name="MemoryClockTarget_PCI_VEN_1002&amp;DEV_679A&amp;SUBSYS_27601462&amp;REV_00_4&amp;BAB4994&amp;0&amp;0008A">
          <Property name="Want_0" value="15000" />
Now look for this
Now the 30000
and 15000 part are your idle clock speeds, just raise them or make them match your cards default clock speeds,
Like so
   <Property name="Want_0" value="80000" />
          <Property name="Want_1" value="80000" />
 now this didnt work for me as my above method did, but it may work for some,
remember though this means your card with be a little bit hotter ( didnt happen to me in testing though )
You can also raise the two voltages to stay the same.
But again the above RadeonPro methode worked for me.
Thought I would be a nice guy and update how I solved it for others having issues.
Peace, ZII
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