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October 6, 2026
Won't Fix

Objects turn to black outlines and freeze during drag when zoomed above 800% (Beta 30.9.93)

Since updating to Illustrator Beta 30.9.93, I'm seeing an abnormal rendering behavior when moving objects at high zoom levels.

Steps to reproduce:

  1. Open any document in Illustrator Beta 30.9.93

  2. Zoom in beyond 800% (GPU rendering enabled)

  3. Click and hold on any object to drag it

Expected result:

  • While holding the click, the object moves in real time on screen, as usual.

Actual result:

  • As soon as zoom exceeds 800%, the outlines of ALL objects on the artboard turn black.

  • During the drag, the selected object appears frozen — no live preview of the movement.

  • When releasing the mouse button, the object jumps to its new position (the move itself is applied correctly).

Behavior below 800%: everything works normally, with real-time drag preview.

Workaround: Switching to View > View Using CPU restores the normal real-time drag preview.

Environment:

  • Illustrator Beta version: 30.9.93

  • Dell Precision 5820 - Intel(R) Xeon(R) W-2245 CPU @ 3.90GHz (3.91 GHz) - RAM 32Gb

  • Windows 11 Pro

  • Nvidia RTX A4000 - 16Gb

  • GPU Performance: enabled, Real-Time Drawing and Editing: enabled

This looks like the GPU rendering pipeline falling back to a degraded outline mode at high zoom, which disables the live drag preview.

    2 replies

    Smriti Capoor
    Community Manager
    October 8, 2026

    Hello ​@bolfab_pellenc thank you for such a detailed report on the issue. I am unable to replicate the issue on my end. We released a new version of Beta today (Beta 31.0.29) in the morning. Will you please update and check if you face the same issue on that one as well? In case you do, kindly record a small video and share it with us.

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    Smriti, Product Marketing, Adobe Illustrator
    Participant
    October 8, 2026

    Hye Smriti, updating illustrator to 31.0.29 seemed to have solved the problem. Everything went back to normal with “GPU rendering” and “animated zoom” checked on.

    Thx.

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