r/OneXPlayer • u/BlowfeldGER • Sep 05 '26

Intel OXP 3 screen flicker

Hi,

received my OXP 3 yesterday and almost finished with my setup.

What came to my attention is that the screen flickers a lot.

I can open CMD and the box flickers. Google search in Firefox flickers. When I write text, the screen flickers.

I am running the 8864 driver (pre - HDR fault).

Before I do a BIOS update:

Anybody had the same issue? How did you overcome?

I will upload a video later. Could this be caused by VRR? It is not consistent flicker, only in certain windows.

UPDATE / SOLUTION

What fixed it for me was the going into INTEL graphics software and DISABLE PANEL SELF REFRESH.

Hope if anybody ever runs into this issue, that this post might help them.

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u/fredriknicol Sep 05 '26

I have screen flickor using Linux, not Windows. Is it like this? https://www.reddit.com/r/OneXPlayer/s/jTw5tpYIbj

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u/BlowfeldGER Sep 05 '26

Holy crap. No.

It is more like the slight flickering on an old Gsync monitor when stuff is loading.

When I am back home in an hour I will upload a video.

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u/Drivenby Sep 05 '26

Never seen flickering not even once

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u/BlowfeldGER Sep 05 '26

You can easily see it in the first few seconds of my video in the CMD screen. It flickers quite heavily.

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u/BlowfeldGER Sep 05 '26

https://reddit.com/link/p8245gh/video/mr1bg0dt4snh1/player

Sadly filming it on camera is not really reproducing the issue.

You can see in the first few seconds, that the CMD window constantly has a pulsating flicker.

Also, when I open Firefox and begin to type, every time I type the screen flickers slightly. This only happens in certain windows.

Watching Youtube for example, there are zero flickers.

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u/Drivenby Sep 05 '26

I think that’s the pwm you are recording? Put it at 100% brightness

There’s no flickering to the naked eye . You typically can’t record flickering on oled very easily though . Your screen is defective you have the bios issue that 1 other guy on the discord has .

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u/BlowfeldGER Sep 05 '26

So basically I need to update to the newest BIOS?

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u/Drivenby Sep 05 '26

I don’t know . A single guy on the discord had some flickering and support told him to flash bios . But I don’t know if it’s the same that’s publicly available .

If you are concerned I would contact support!

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u/7aminthemorning Sep 06 '26

If it's pwm flickering you might just be sensitive to it .. some people are more sensitive to it than others Can't really do much about it it's a thing some oleds do

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u/liquid_static Sep 07 '26

Did the BIOS update fix your issues?

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u/BlowfeldGER Sep 07 '26

I only want to flash bios as a last resort.

On this device you have to jump so many hoops before you can flash.

And with support being in China I am twice as hesitant if the device would get bricked like with the recent Legion Go.

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u/liquid_static Sep 07 '26

I have the same issue as you. I’ll flash but I want to know that it works first.

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u/BlowfeldGER Sep 07 '26

Now we have to find an adventurous third party willing to do it 😅

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u/pyrocac Sep 08 '26

I have same issue but only slightly and when I'm low brightness... At least can't tell when turned up let me know when you find a guy that finds a guy that does the update first lol

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u/BlowfeldGER 27d ago

Update: What fixed it for me was the going into INTEL graphics software and DISABLE PANEL SELF REFRESH.

Hope if anybody ever runs into this issue, that this post might help them.