dpleasant83
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Hey all,
I've noticed some of my games on steam (Sanctum 2 and Civ 5) have a flashing color bar switching between several neon colors very rapidly on the left perimeter of my monitor. I've reinstalled my driver (332.21) and made sure everything is up to date with a clean/custom install. I also noticed similar games on similar engines such as Chivalry MW and Chivalry DW do not have this symptom as well. Thanks in advance!
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Re: GTX 660 Ti, Flashing color bar on left side of monitor
2014/02/09 18:15:09
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Do you have two cards in SLI? If so, is it possibly that you accidentally enabled SLI visual indicators in the NVIDIA control panel? SLI visual indicators show how load is shared between cards and appears as multicolored bars.
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dpleasant83
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Re: GTX 660 Ti, Flashing color bar on left side of monitor
2014/02/09 20:17:55
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Sadly,
I only have one 660
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Re: GTX 660 Ti, Flashing color bar on left side of monitor
2014/02/09 21:25:19
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What is your monitors native screen resolution?
Are you running these games at that same res?
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dpleasant83
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Re: GTX 660 Ti, Flashing color bar on left side of monitor
2014/02/09 21:43:52
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All the resolutions match. To be specific, these games haven't changed at all w.r.t. graphics settings. I believe this happened after a steam update.
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Re: GTX 660 Ti, Flashing color bar on left side of monitor
2014/06/06 21:10:22
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dpleasant83
All the resolutions match. To be specific, these games haven't changed at all w.r.t. graphics settings. I believe this happened after a steam update.
Just had this with my 760GTX. Disabling RTSS (Rivatuner OSD) fixed it.
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Re: GTX 660 Ti, Flashing color bar on left side of monitor
2016/01/05 20:47:53
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I'm having the exact same problem. I only noticed this after uninstalling MSI afterburner and Rivatuner. I only briefly installed afterburner and rivatuner, didn't like them so they got uninstalled and now I have this annoying blinking bar on the left side of the screen. I have no idea is afterburner has anything to do with this but the problem popped up after I tried the program. But it is uninstalled so what else can I do?
If I leave Precision completely off this annoying bar doesn't show up, but then I can't control the speed of my fans. Any solution to this yet?
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Re: GTX 660 Ti, Flashing color bar on left side of monitor
2016/04/13 15:45:30
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I too am having the exact same problem with an EVGA GTX 980 Ti. The flashing bar shows up in games, benchmarks, etc... If I close out Precision X the bar goes away. I have tried Precision X 5.3.10 and 5.3.11 and both the issue. I've downloaded each directly from EVGA's website. I've cleaned driver installs with DDU and reinstalled multiple times including an older driver I knew to work. I then double checked my system for any trace of MSI afterburner and Rivatuner but was unable to find any.
Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.
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Re: GTX 660 Ti, Flashing color bar on left side of monitor
2016/05/28 16:34:21
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I just got my GTX 1080 & I am also having this issue. With Precision X turned off it's not there. Has anyone been able to solve this issue?
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Re: GTX 660 Ti, Flashing color bar on left side of monitor
2016/05/28 16:42:25
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Ichiigo
I just got my GTX 1080 & I am also having this issue. With Precision X turned off it's not there. Has anyone been able to solve this issue?
The culprit is a setting in Precision X called "FCAT Overlay" You must click Monitoring Settings and uncheck it at the bottom. Then you can leave the overlay on or off no problem, it's a feature, not a bug. Still annoying. Please respond to this message and let me know if this resolves the issue for you!
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Re: GTX 660 Ti, Flashing color bar on left side of monitor
2016/05/28 16:49:21
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ephuber35
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I just got my GTX 1080 & I am also having this issue. With Precision X turned off it's not there. Has anyone been able to solve this issue?
The culprit is a setting in Precision X called "FCAT Overlay" You must click Monitoring Settings and uncheck it at the bottom. Then you can leave the overlay on or off no problem, it's a feature, not a bug. Still annoying.
Please respond to this message and let me know if this resolves the issue for you!
Dude you're a legend!! Thank you so much for the fast response :D
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Re: GTX 660 Ti, Flashing color bar on left side of monitor
2016/05/28 17:03:05
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Awesome dude!! Glad it worked :) I'm planning on getting a 1080 soon, can't decided between the EVGA Classified or the MSI 1080! The classified seems really cool. Enjoy the card. You're lucky to have gotten one so early!
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Ichiigo
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Re: GTX 660 Ti, Flashing color bar on left side of monitor
2016/05/28 17:11:47
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Thanks again man! Yeah the EVGA cards look amazing, I was one of the lucky people that was able to get a pre-order in on the 20th, & I am absolutely loving this card! :D
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Re: GTX 660 Ti, Flashing color bar on left side of monitor
2016/05/28 20:50:02
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ephuber35
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I just got my GTX 1080 & I am also having this issue. With Precision X turned off it's not there. Has anyone been able to solve this issue?
The culprit is a setting in Precision X called "FCAT Overlay" You must click Monitoring Settings and uncheck it at the bottom. Then you can leave the overlay on or off no problem, it's a feature, not a bug. Still annoying.
Please respond to this message and let me know if this resolves the issue for you!
Thanks, man. For once the first result googling this led to an instant solution.
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Re: GTX 660 Ti, Flashing color bar on left side of monitor
2016/10/04 21:25:39
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This has been an issue on my 970 for a couple of weeks now thanks for the solution but why all the sudden is this a problem? Is it because of the new Precision X
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Re: GTX 660 Ti, Flashing color bar on left side of monitor
2016/10/12 09:40:58
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ephuber35
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I just got my GTX 1080 & I am also having this issue. With Precision X turned off it's not there. Has anyone been able to solve this issue?
The culprit is a setting in Precision X called "FCAT Overlay" You must click Monitoring Settings and uncheck it at the bottom. Then you can leave the overlay on or off no problem, it's a feature, not a bug. Still annoying.
Please respond to this message and let me know if this resolves the issue for you!
Thank you very much.
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Re: GTX 660 Ti, Flashing color bar on left side of monitor
2017/06/27 21:10:17
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ephuber35
Ichiigo
I just got my GTX 1080 & I am also having this issue. With Precision X turned off it's not there. Has anyone been able to solve this issue?
The culprit is a setting in Precision X called "FCAT Overlay" You must click Monitoring Settings and uncheck it at the bottom. Then you can leave the overlay on or off no problem, it's a feature, not a bug. Still annoying.
Please respond to this message and let me know if this resolves the issue for you!
This just happened today with a Precision X update. Thanks for the solution here!
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Re: GTX 660 Ti, Flashing color bar on left side of monitor
2017/08/14 18:24:12
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Still helping out over a year later with that problem. turned it off and BAM! Gone your the man!!
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Re: GTX 660 Ti, Flashing color bar on left side of monitor
2019/03/19 02:52:10
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omg thank you so much i had no idea sense it would only do it in certain games but now it makes sense it does it in games only were evgas card info on the screen is present ur a life saver i thought i was having bigger issues i was online for awile trying to figure it out thank u again thank you so so so so much you saved me alot of headache
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Re: GTX 660 Ti, Flashing color bar on left side of monitor
2019/03/19 10:05:17
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omg thank you so much i had no idea sense it would only do it in certain games but now it makes sense it does it in games only were evgas card info on the screen is present ur a life saver i thought i was having bigger issues i was online for awile trying to figure it out thank u again thank you so so so so much you saved me alot of headache
Welcome to the Forum Yep! FCAT Overlay can be a pain.
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