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P: Photoshop v27.10 UI, Canvas and screen Flickering

Forum|Forum|22 days ago
August 31, 2026
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Environment:

OS: Windows 11 64-bit
CPU: Intel Core i7-14700K
GPU: NVIDIA RTX 2000 Ada Generation
Photoshop Version: 27.10
Driver: NVIDIA Studio Driver

Issue Description: Immediately after updating to Photoshop v27.10, severe UI and canvas rendering issues began occurring during normal editing. The symptoms include:

Rapid flickering where UI elements and the canvas temporarily disappear and instantly reappear (no black or white flashes).
When navigating menus (e.g., Preferences), the text briefly vanishes and comes back.
While editing, the active photo disappears from the canvas and instantly reappears.
The flickering happens extremely fast, rendering the application completely unusable for daily work.
This issue is isolated to Photoshop and does not occur in other applications.

Troubleshooting Steps Executed:

Verified the monitor is connected directly to the NVIDIA GPU, bypassing the Intel iGPU.
Forced High Performance GPU assignment for photoshop.exe via Windows 11 Graphics Settings.
Disabled Hardware-Accelerated GPU Scheduling (HAGS) in Windows.
Disabled Multi-Plane Overlay (MPO) via the Windows Registry.
Disabled GPU Compositing and OpenCL in Photoshop's Advanced Graphics Settings.

Results: The rapid flickering persists despite all GPU and OS-level troubleshooting. The issue is only resolved when Use Graphics Processor is completely disabled in Photoshop Preferences, or when rolling back the installation to v27.9.1. This strongly indicates a regression in GPU rendering specific to v27.10.

Pinned Reply By Sameer K

Hey All! Thank you all for reporting this and for the detailed system info; it's been very helpful.

We've been able to reproduce the UI/canvas flickering issue in Photoshop 27.10, where the screen intermittently darkens and flashes internally. It has been filed with the engineering team for investigation.

For now, these are the workarounds:

Downgrade to Photoshop 27.9.1 via the Creative Cloud app (Other versions > 27.9.1).
Go to Edit > Preferences > Performance > uncheck "Foreground Composite Cache" and "Use GPU Compositing." from Advanced settings. (Suggested, not verified)

Colors shifting on canvas is another issue that has surfaced with PS v27.10, it is being tracked here:

We understand this disrupts the core editing workflow and appreciate your patience. We'll update this thread as we have more information.

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Dave MP

Known Participant

Surely with all of the increases in subscription prices you force upon us regularly you can afford to pay people to test your software before releasing out into the wild. Try focusing on getting the core product running correctly before tacking on all the AI bloatware.

mjmdvm

Inspiring

Agree 100%. I wish Adobe would stop pushing AI gimmicks into the software and focus on core functionality and performance. For what we have to pay it is absurd that the program gets broken each time there’s an “update”.

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Erin26

Community Manager

Dear customers,

Thank you for the information you’ve shared and for your continued activity on this forum as we work to understand and address this issue. Your reports and feedback are greatly appreciated.

At this time, we have not been able to reproduce the issue on our systems. If possible, a video showing the issue within the context of the entire application would be extremely valuable in helping us investigate further.

We’re specifically asking to see the full application because there can sometimes be subtle “breadcrumbs” elsewhere in the interface that provide clues about what may be happening, even when they don’t initially appear related to the issue.

If a standard screen recording does not capture the behavior you’re seeing, a video taken with your phone showing the application and the issue as it occurs would also be very helpful.

Please also provide your System Info. To do this, go to Help > System Info, copy the information, and save it as a text file. Please attach the file to this thread rather than pasting the System Info directly into your reply. This information can help us identify system or configuration details that may be contributing to the issue.

Thank you again for your time, patience, and willingness to help us investigate this.

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Ernani33588178fyr2

Participating Frequently

Olá… fiz um video aqui gravando com o celular… antes usei o OBS Studio para gravar, mas estranho que no OBS isso não aparece… ai gravei com o celular, segue aqui o link youtube →

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gabriel5E9E

Inspiring

tá fácil não meu amigo… aqui também to com bug, porém nos ajustes. Só consigo aplicar os ajustes se forem em camada de ajuste. Se eu aplicar uma curva ou level ou outro efeito em um obj inteligente, ele fica piscando. Já tem várias versões assim...

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Clever_style5FBC

Participant

This works for me as well, I’m using Photoshop 27.10 on AOC 27G4 Moniter.

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Ernani33588178fyr2

Participating Frequently

o mesmo acontece com GTX 1650… versão 27.11 ( beta ) 27.10 ( atual ) as duas com o mesmo erro… quando faço os comando via teclado, (ctrl +) ou ( ctrl - ) ou ( zoom ) etc.. o background fica escuro e distorce a cor da imagem que está sendo trabalhada.. volta ao normal em 1 segundo ou 2, mas é irritante.

A versão 27.9 nao apresenta esse erro.

Mas se eu desativar a opção ( desativar o processador gráfico funciona )… mas dai não adianta ter placa de video para melhorar o processo.

Hoje atualizou novamente a (versão beta 27.11) e ainda nao funciona. Ja atualizei os drives da placa e nada tbm.

Funciona somente na versão (27.9), mas ja desatualizada tbm.

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christophem45831419

Participating Frequently

Hi,
Here's my contribution:

Windows 11 + RTX 4070 Ti + driver 595.95 + Photoshop 27.10 → flickering
Complete GPU disabling → immediate disappearance
Individual disabling of OpenCL, smoothing, 30-bit color depth, and GPU compositing → problem persists.
The flickering also occurs with no images open, no user action or movement, and even when Photoshop is running in the background.

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Virtual_Architects

Participant

Glad the issue is solved on your end but it’s not a general fix! It’s a bug from Photoshop 27.10 and has nothing to do with Nvidia drivers. Spent half a day trying to solve this. For the people who stumble across this issue, just don’t update to this version or roll back to the previous version.

Mateusz Piotrowski

Participating Frequently

Thanks, this solved it for me.

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benjaguillou

Participant

Me pasa lo mismo, alguna solución?

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Erin26

Community Manager

Thank you to everyone who has replied, and to Carlos for clarifying that this was not tested during the beta.

We are still unable to reproduce this behavior on the NVIDIA machines we have in-house. If possible, a full-screen video showing the issue would be greatly appreciated and would help us better understand and investigate the behavior.

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yanim50305251

Participant

I can confirm this issue after updating to Photoshop 27.10 on Windows 11 with an NVIDIA GTX 1050

mjmdvm

Inspiring

Same for me. After updating my Wacom Cintiq22 started flickering like crazy. NVIDIA and Wacom drivers all up to date before updating PS. I will be rolling back ALL the updates to my Adobe apps ( OS, AI)

SnowSultan

Known Participant

How do you roll back to a previous version? I tried clicking the three dots on the app panel in Creative Cloud and I get no option to do so. I also checked my preferences for the Display Older Versions option that some have mentioned and I do not have that either.

SnowSultan

Known Participant

Apologies, I did finally find a page that gave me the option to view older versions. The help page I was looking at might have been outdated. As others have experienced, I can confirm the flashing problem here as well, even after changing graphical settings in Photoshop and updating Nvidia drivers.

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