Screen flicker

[hudsonbear]

Hi,
I have recently started playing Planet Zoo and love the game, but have noticed that my screen flickers in game. This is not constant, it seems to start up when my zoos are reaching a bigger size. (But nothing extreme - when I ran into flickering today I had about 110 animals and 4000 or so guests.) As soon as I quit Planet Zoo or return to main menu, the flickering stops.
Does anyone know if there is something I can adjust or update in my settings to perhaps take care of this? I'm running with a RTX2060 graphic card, Ryzen 7 processor, 16GB RAM which I thought would be OK for the game, as I haven't even scratched the surface of the map size yet. Will be a shame if this is as large as I can go!

Oh, I have also checked that drivers are up to date.

Thank you!

 

[NL_Mutso]

Your specs are great, more than a lot of people have. We can cross that one of the list.

Software in the background that might conflict ?
Or fiddle around with the graphic settings. Maybe setting 1 thing lower, could fix it.
Maybe set the power settings of your pc to performance instead of energy saving ? (seen some weird things get solved by changing that one)

Since you only encounter it randomly and it stops when you go to the main menu/quit the game, I highly doubt it's a cable issue. (not properly connected/old cable)
Judging from your setup, i'm not expecting any old cable. If you do, if you have a spare one lying around - try that one. Excluding things is always an option to check.

Difficult to say with these random issues.

 

[Dienstbier]

Hello, did you have the problem from the beginning when you enter the zoo or only after the game has been running for some time? For me, the longer I sneak in, the more mistakes I make. In your place I would report the issue to the Issue Tracker to Frontier, and / or attach it via email and the save status. And such emails are actually used, as I have just experienced myself, even if you need a lot of patience until sometimes they answer. E-mail: community@frontier.co.uk IssueTracker: https://issues.frontierstore.net/search

 

[hudsonbear]

Hi, thank you for the replies!
That's good to know that my specs are sufficient to play Planet Zoo.
I don't think there will be software conflict in the background, as I normally don't have anything else open while I'm playing. I've changed my power plan to High Performance and will see if that helps! If not, I'll try adjusting the graphics settings in game. (I did already adjust some things, but maybe I need to do more.)

It only really happens when I've had the game open a while. Thank you for the information about reporting the issue to Frontier, I will definitely do that if the flickering persists.

 

[hudsonbear]

Just wanted to come back to this thread and say I've seen big improvement since changing my power plan to High Performance. I've since managed to build up a very large zoo with every species in the game, and capped at 5000 guests, without having the game ruined by screen flashing. Thank you very much for the tip!

 

[Joël]

Just wanted to come back to this thread and say I've seen big improvement since changing my power plan to High Performance. I've since managed to build up a very large zoo with every species in the game, and capped at 5000 guests, without having the game ruined by screen flashing. Thank you very much for the tip!

Great to hear that hudsonbear! Enjoy the game!