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My screen flickers while running Aerial #188

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@kkarhi

Hi,
I recently bought a new Dell XPS PC running Windows 11 to replace my old Dell Inspiron PC that runs Windows 10.
I was looking for interesting screensavers and found Aerial so I downloaded it to C:\Windows\system32. It showed up in screensaver app so I was able to set it to run. I have ran it using the screensaver app, by double clicking the Aerial app, and by double clicking the video file. The results are the same in all cases.
I noticed that about every 30 seconds the bottom part of the screen has a little hiccup which freezes that part of the screen and then the video overwrites that part making that part of the screen very messy. The height of the messed up screen varies and seems to be random. Here is a pic about the problem. You can see the top half of the picture being sharp, but the bottom half is all smeared:

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I have checked with Dell support and I have their latest video drivers so it is not that. I ran the Dell diagnostics and they all passed. I also ran YouTube videos of 4K and 8K format and they show with no issues. So it seems to just be the Aerial videos that have the issue. I then ran the video on my old system with the same monitor (a 32" ASUS monitor) and again there was no issue there. When I ran the video using the Aerial application, the video was not full screen and it did have the issue, so it is not just in full screen mode. So the problem is specific to Windows 11, my NVIDIA RTX 4060 Ti graphics, or Aerial video, or some combination. Questions: What is the format of the videos? Are there some other videos of that format that I could try?

I do not know the version number of the Aerial app, but it was created 2/4/2017, modified 5/14/2019, and its size is 537088 bytes. Let me know how I can get the version and I will send it.
Cheers,
Kari Karhi
karhi@hotmail.com

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