This is mainly a memory problem
Unfortunately this can be a graphics card problem" this is also common in some games "flicking textures".
Work around....
Right click the desktop click nvidia control panel open it.
Go to manage 3d settings
Go to the programs settings tab
Select" a program to customize" if iclone does not appear then add it to the list
Then you will have to adjust the setting for iclone' really its just a matter of playing with the settings.You can scroll down to the textures area and play with those settings. Save the settings and try iclone again, keep adjusting those settings until you get it fixed.
This is a common issue related to video card memory in simple terms you are running out of memory. Unfortunately a graphics card with 4gig is vary weak for 3d software and will run out of memory vary fast. You can download MSI afterburner or any graphics card hardware monitoring software. Run it and then run iclone you will see how it uses all the video memory in just a few seconds. Once its full and you add custom textures you will get flickering.
If you are going to make large projects with lots of custom textures effects etc a 4 gig card will not be enough. You really need a minimum of 8 gigs to 24 gigs of video memory. This applies to all 3d software and games. Gaming cards are not designed with the memory to run 3d software. The drivers for gaming cards are coded different then drivers for a compute graphics card. games use a cretin type of code. Compute cards come with compute chips which gaming cards do not have. 3d software is coded to use compute code chips etc, Gaming cards are not. You can use gaming cards on 3d software programs yes, but they will have more issues and run out of memory 2x faster.
A texture mapping unit (TMU) is a component in modern graphics processing units (GPUs), historically it was a separate physical processor. A TMU is able to rotate, resize, and distort a bitmap image (performing texture sampling), to be placed onto an arbitrary plane of a given 3D model as a texture.The GTX 980 has 128 TMU's the 980TI 176 TMU Titan X 192 TMU each cards has specs and limitations. cards also have ROP and other things.
Nvidia and AMD have gaming / compute cars
Example the Titan series from Nvidia is a gaming card with compute chips and 12 gigs of memory so it can do both 3d software and gaming.Texturing takes loads of memory more so then almost any other process in 3d modeling.
If you have iclone open for a long time making lots of adjustment etc save it close it, then reopen it clear the memory then try playing with textures.
You can download MSI afterburner it works with any graphics card and monitor your graphics memory etc. 99% of all texture, screen flickers, has to do with hardware drivers direct x and memory issues.
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