P: Flickering on canvas (windows 10) (Narration enable)

I updated to the new 2015 release of Photoshop (and the other CC apps). When I start the program, the new Start page is just a big empty screen that constantly flickers from white to grey. I have to switch to a different layout to do anything. As long as Photoshop is running, my mouse pointer constantly flickers every half second between the pointer and a "loading" icon. This happens even when Photoshop is minimized. It makes menu selection nearly impossible as the menu appears for a moment but then the pointer steals focus and the menu goes away. If I close Photoshop, everything works normally.

This is the same behavior in Illustrator (blank flickering Start page).

I am running Windows 10 with the latest updates. I have a laptop with AMD HD 6700M switchable graphics with the latest video drivers (did a clean install today). I tried uninstalling Photoshop and reinstalling it, to no avail.

Is there a way to reinstall the previous version until this issue is resolved? I have work to do.

this solved the problem for me. the "narration" related thing didnt fix it for me

You have "Narration" enabled in Windows. Disable Narration and the problem will go away.

https://social.technet.microsoft.com/...

Hello, I found the solution in another forum: you need to uncheck "Show 'Start' Workspace When No Documents Are Open" in Preferences > General.

It was somewhat difficult doing that, because the flickering also affected the menus. I had luck using the keyboard: press Alt-E to open the Edit menu and choose Preferences > General.

This also works for Illustrator and InDesign. For After Effects it's the same but the menu nomenclature is different.

Hope this helps other people.

Please remember that Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign share very little code -- something affecting all of them is most likely a system issue.

I tried disabling the GPU, setting it to Advanced and setting it to Basic. They all have the same flickering issue.

Same issue here. I'm using Windows 8.1 with a Geforce GTX 960 with the latest drivers. I have tried to disable the GPU but to no avail. The same thing is happening with Illustrator and After Effects.

Does disabling GPU in the preferences affect the flickering? If it is better with it off. Then try setting to GPU ON but in advanced set it to Basic.

Restart PS between tries.

I have the same issue, but I have an AMD video board with the latest drivers. I did an uninstall and fresh install of both the drivers and Photoshop, but it did not fix it.

I would suspect a bad video driver.

Determine what video card you have and go *directly to the manufacturers website (nVidia or ATI/AMD)* and download the latest driver: http://blogs.adobe.com/crawlspace/201...

Just doing Windows Update won't give you the latest and greatest drivers. You must go directly to your card manufacturers website to check for driver updates.

After you have the latest driver, Try restoring your preferences: http://blogs.adobe.com/crawlspace/201...