video issues

i have been fussing with the screen flickering for 2 days and i am done. i have never had to ask 4 my credit back but i am going to now

I don't know if you ever got an answer / refund from CS but the problem is with your nvidia drivers. Because of an nvidia bug, they are too recent for this game.
If you ever want to play again you will need to download 186.18 from the nvidia archives.