Acer Aspire E5-576G-81GD - Acer OEM Intel Display Driver v24.20.100.6286 causes screen flickering

Stanley71

The Acer OEM Intel Display Driver in the ZIP archive VGA_Intel_24.20.100.6286_W10x64_A.zip listed on the Acer Updates website (https://www.acer.com/ac/en/US/content/drivers) is buggy for the integrated Intel graphics.

I'm seeing random flickering on my screen after having to update to it in order to install Windows 10 v1903. I saw the flickering in Windows 10 v1803, and the same flicking is also present in Windows 10 v1903. Calibrating the screen with the tool built into Windows 10 does not fix it, and it's impossible to downgrade the driver since it's not available for download and it's incompatible with Windows 10 v1903.

My System:
* Laptop: Acer Aspire E 15 Laptop: E5-576G-81GD
* OS: Windows 10 v1903 (64-bit)
* Intel Integrated Graphics: Acer OEM Intel Display Driver v24.20.100.6286 (64-bit)
* Processor: Intel Core i7-8550U CPU
* Discrete Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce MX-150 with 2 GB VRAM
* Storage: 256 GB SSD
* RAM: 8 GB RAM (upgraded to 16 GB RAM)

Stanley71

I've fixed the issue, and it wasn't caused by that Acer OEM Intel VGA driver. The issue was some Windows Update that automatically installed, I don't know which one but I've restored to a disk image backup I had made about 2 weeks before the problem started and I no longer have the display flickering randomly.