Monitor Scan lines/horizontal flickering while playing games

Anguxilion

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yesterday my dad gave to me his old monitor ViewSonic VA2016w-2 and for my surprise, it worked. this are specs of screen: http://ap.viewsonic.com/ph/products/lcd/VA2016w.php
but there is a problem and I don't know what to do, i really don't wanna buy another one or rollback to my old monitor.
when i'm playing any video game, a lot of horizontal semi-transparent bars flick arround the screen, sometimes is barely visible, other times is disgusting, they look like old crt interference when a phone was close.
the strange thing is that when i'm on desktop or watching videos on youtube (even 4k/ 60fps videos) or watching movies with splash pro ex with interpolated frames, i don't get any flick, i can see eveything okay.
here comes something weird that i found five minutes ago, if i play windowed mode, it flicks everything on the background too (desktop or whatever i have on background) but if i press click on the game (keep it pressed) the flick goes away.
I really hope you can understand my poor english and i hope you can help me to fix this, thank you for your time.


(VIDEO OF THIS) i recorded them:

- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pRG72TStFO4

- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cmpn0KtqTU4 (the thing that i've said of click the game on windowed mode)


SOLUTIONS THAT I'VE FOUND ON INTERNET THAT I TRIED (not even one worked):

-change power cable (monitor one) to another plug (now i have it pluged alone in my wall) (besides i tried a lot of cables, old and new ones)

-separate vga cable from psu (pc) cable

-pluging the monitor on the integrated gpu (it's still the same, so i doubt is my gtx)

-custom resolutions from nvidia panel and windows config (59/60hz and those kind of things)

-clean everything

-subtle pressing on corners of screen

-trying another vga cable


*i've seen on internet that change the vga cable for dvi-d solved the problem, but here is the thing, my monitor has only vga output, and my gpu nope. so i have the vga cable with a dvi-i adapter. do you think that could be better if i buy a dvi-d cable and i plug an adapter to my monitor? i don't wanna buy one just to "test" because here in argentina is very expensive*

I had no problems with my old monitor but it was very very low resolution compared to this one and it was very small idk if this is important.
 
Solution
Normaly from my experience is down to the cabel running from your gpu to the monitor.

On my old computer I had a VGA first, with "flickering waves" if one can call it that :) and when I added an dvi-i adapter, that only made it worse for me.
Only when I swaped to an HDMI cable it "worked"
Never got it fixed but I have figured out the problem for me atleast and the only solution was to buy a new monitor since the panel was cheap and spec`s where not good overall.
Normaly from my experience is down to the cabel running from your gpu to the monitor.

On my old computer I had a VGA first, with "flickering waves" if one can call it that :) and when I added an dvi-i adapter, that only made it worse for me.
Only when I swaped to an HDMI cable it "worked"
Never got it fixed but I have figured out the problem for me atleast and the only solution was to buy a new monitor since the panel was cheap and spec`s where not good overall.
 
Solution


i fixed it five minutes ago, bought dvi-d / vga active adapter cable and works like a charm now