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Thanks for the continuous posts to help solve this issue. The link you posted proved very useful. I made a work around using the suggested double buffering techniques offered in that article but the blinking hasn't completely vanished. It has reduced so greatly that I have a hard time noticing it, so i feel for now, the problem has been corrected. Thanks again for all of your help! Next time, i definitely will use DirectX protocols for drawing and animation.

That's very good news! I'm just glad you got it solved, and heck, I ended up learning some things as well! :)
Good luck with the rest of Adventure Game! :)