Playonline Viewer Flicker

I just got a new laptop and finished installing FFXI. The game runs fine, but the Playonline viewer has this annoying flicker. It happens even just running vanilla. Any help with fixing this? I'm not sure where to even begin diagnosing it.

Are you using dgvoodoo or any other dx8 wrapper?

If yes, could be some settings?

If no, I would use one. I personally would use dgvoodoo.

I am using dgvoodoo. Does it do anything to the POL viewer? I was not sure if it did because the watermark does not show up, so I didn't try messing with it.

I removed the dgvoodoo extension from the POL folder and it still does this.

Try changing the size of the pol window, try turning dgvoodoo logo branding on, could also be some video card driver issue.

I spent way too long trying to solve this when i got my new laptop... I *think* its something to do with refresh rate and the GPU - when I set my screen refresh rate to 60hz (instead of the default 240) and set the GPU to be used always, it went away, BUT that means you cant use a 2nd monitor, because as soon as you plug one in nvidia optimus kicks in and POL flickers again. I ended up just living with it :/

https://www.ffxiah.com/forum/topic/56456/windows-11/2#3677078

here's the thread from when i had the issue if it helps

I just ran into this issue and found a solution that fixed the issue completely for me, of course YMMV. It happened right after I decreased the game client resolution and I found that the GPU was now basically idle during gameplay (<10% utilization).

Going into the Nvidia App (Beta) and setting an application rule for pol.exe to "Prefer maximum performance" resolved the issue. Without that, I believe it was using adaptive power management to downclock the GPU multiple times per second between new frames from the client.

Setting max performance did not cause the GPU to stay pegged, as some online commenters suggested it would. Average utilization went from 8% to about 11% and the flicker is gone.

Hope this helps someone!

I've got this problem on my laptop with an integrated intel gpu. since the game runs fine and just POL flickers I had been ignoring it. still looking for a solution.