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GAME BUILD #: 73855
GAME PLATFORM: Steam
OPERATING SYSTEM: Windows 11 (Latest: 22H2 Build 22621.1105)
ISSUE EXPERIENCED
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When alt-tabbing out of AOE 2 DE, display flickers and corruption is present as can be seen in video linked below. Note the flickering and corruption is much worse in reality than the video shows. Occurs regardless of in-game display settings (full screen, windowed or full display). This does not happen in the 10+ other games I play frequently.
FREQUENCY OF ISSUE
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100% of the time / matches I play (ALWAYS)
REPRODUCTION STEPS
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Here’s the steps to reproduce the issue:
Open game
Alt-tab out of game
Observe display corruption and flickering
EXPECTED RESULT
What was SUPPOSED to happen if the bug you encountered were not present?
No display corruption and flickering
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Hi @Michaelan96
This is a really strange issue, I’d say is driver related but it seems that you have it updated. Are you using any kind of overlay that could be interfering with the game?
No overlays that I am aware of besides steam overlay. I also didn’t have this issue before when using Windows 10, I only upgraded to Windows 11 when I swapped my CPU, which makes me not suspect drivers as the upgrade was a clean install. I will try to uninstall/disable windows Xbox overlay and see if that changes anything.
I recently installed Windows 11 on one of the laptops I play this game on constantly and started having a similar issue with display corruption. I resolved it by disabling optimizations for windowed games on the graphics settings of Windows itself (Settings App > System > Display > Graphics).
You might need to add the AoE2DE executable to the list by changing the option below “add an app” to “Desktop app” and browsing for it (default install path is usually “C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\AoE2DE\AoE2DE_s.exe”)
Hey,
Totally Unrelated question sorry.
I’m seeing you have an B450 and a 5800x3D.
By any chance, was the 5800x3d an upgrade from a previous AM4 GPU ?
If so what kind of improvement did you notice in ao2de please ?
Would you recommend the x3d version for this game ?
I’m on a 2600x + X470 motherboard with up to date bios. I’m concidering upgrading at some point to a 5800x3d or 5900x.
5900x as better single thread speed which is good for aoe2de since it single threaded but 5800x3d as the extra L3 cache.
I could not find anywhere some benchmark of aoe2de on 5800x3d. (I only play ao2de, 11 no other games.)