User blog comment:Natz279/It's back!/@comment-11923066-20130503152152/@comment-1852943-20130508143827

I've been experiencing the same issue. Visual effects like dropped items, summon signs, orange soapstone notes, the flames of a bonfire, actual fire from burning environmental objects (such as the fire near the first boar in Undead Parish), fire and lava from pyromancies, magic attacks from miracles and sorceries, and magic attacks from certain enemies (such as the moonlight butterfly). All of these visual effects flicker off and on, and sometimes remain completely off for over one minute at a time. This occurs regardless of whether my controller is used wireless or manually connected to the PS3.