After Effects Flashing black frames

Same. Black frames and frame jumping/skipping/flickering on previews. This is happening when a mask is applied to a layer. Let's get that bug fix!!

We are getting this issue across multiple machines and GPUS. Threadripper, Intel, 4090s and 5080s all windows 11 latest Nvidia studio drivers. 3090s seem to be the only stable cards. The 5080 machines we can't go back to an older version of AE as since we bought the machines 7 months ago they have never worked with any stability in AE.

This is now at a point where your inability to provide stable working software is having serious effects on our business. After effects is something we have to work around, not with!

Update: I've had to revert back to earlier version. I'm trying to render over 100 videos a day, (re-formats of videos I've output before, so I shouldn't have to check every frame of the back plate) but I have no confidence that any of them will be without errors. So frustrating having to check every frame before sending to client. Saved down and opened in earlier version - all perfect.

Ah - I've just posted separately. I've had the same problems, though I'm also getting colorful glitchy frames too, not just black ones! It's very random and turning off multi-frame rendering doesn't help.  I had to revert to After Effects 24 to get my project finished last week

Last week I was doing some clean-up work on some shots for TV. I'd recently upgraded all my Adobe apps to the latest (stable) versions - including After Effects 25.3.   All seemed to work OK, but when I rendered the final files (and even while I was working) I noticed that it would sometimes either render random frames as a corrupt mess of abstract colours (like a GPU error) or just as black frames.  I tried turning off the multiframe rendering, but the issue persisted.
I know version 25.3 introduced the new "Longer playback" feature to the video engine, so maybe that had something to do with it. In the end, I had to save the project backwards AE 24 and do the work in that (which worked fine!)  I'm using After Effects on a 2021 Intel iMac running MacOS 15.5.
Has anyone else had these issues?

For me, Nishu, 25.2.2 (Build 2)

System specs:

iMac Pro 18 core

128GB RAM

Radeon Pro Vega 64 16 GB

macOS 15.5

Getting long in the tooth but working until 25.3.

25.2.2 seems to have been enough for me at the moment, YMMV. And yes the glitches/black frames were present in the final renders, making this a time eater for working professionals and therefore unacceptable. It seems they have now tested 25.3 and found the bug! So hopefully an update will be coming soon.

Same bug here.

What version do you need to roll back to to stop this? Real amateur hour stuff this is!

Thanks for the update. I'm glad you were able to reproduce this bug so quickly in your recent testing. Looking forward to a solution.