Still flickers if I use High Performance. There is no flickering with the latest driver from the Intel site (10.) if I use Balanced or Power Saver plans. Installed the latest drivers & utilities from the ASUS site, except for the display driver.
No improvement.Ĭlean Windows 8 Pro install (free through my university). ■ Disable the Sensor Monitoring Service (from comments). ■ Disable the Intel Power Saving Technology. ■ Restore all power plan settings to their defaults. ■ Uninstall and reinstall the video drivers. ■ Update video/gfx drivers from the manufacturers website.These are the steps I've taken so far, with the most promising solutions coming from TheWindowsClub: Certain combinations of drivers and power plan settings seem to be able to eliminate the flickering.■ Hearthstone suffers heavy slowness if I keep the latest Windows 8.1 driver (10.) or the generic Windows driver (6.0) but works perfectly using the Intel Windows 10 drivers. It never flickers when plugged in or at the BIOS screen. Opening Hearthstone causes it to flicker more aggressively. It is least noticeable when using the Power Saver plan, not flickering at all at a still desktop, and only lightly upon mouse movement and browsing. It is much more pronounced if I select the High Performance power-plan, flickering aggressively even with a blank desktop and idle mouse. It is more pronounced if I run a game, like Hearthstone, than if nothing is open. Think of it as the brightness moving quickly between 0-100%.