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

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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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Sameer K

Community Manager

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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KeithTruman

Known Participant

Thanks Sameer. I have rolled back and all now seems fine

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casual_Walrus5C6F

Participant

I rolled back to version 27.9, and everything went back to normal.

mjmdvm

Inspiring

Same here. No more flickering on my Wacom Cintiq 22 and much smoother overall GPU performance. ( Win 11- NVIDIA Ge Force RTX 4070)

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KeithTruman

Known Participant

I have updated PS to Ver 27.10. I have a NVIDIA GeForce 3060 graphics card running Win 11. Ever since I did the update my screen flickers in Photoshop and also am experiencing some very strange editing behaviours on editing.

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KeithTruman

Known Participant

Also, when I try to edit layers I get a strange message come up which I have never seen before and the edit behaviour seems to impact layers I am not trying to edit. “Some adjustments are paused while editing layers below”. My NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 has been updated to the most recent studio driver

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jurajz14892039

Participating Frequently

This type messages are most likely caused by some of the new types of adjustment layers (e.g. Clarity / Dehaze)

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Whimsical_writer28d2

Participant

same here

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Studio InkBug

Participant

Same here- the flickering to darker screen happened after the latest update 27.10 over the weekend. Updating drivers didn’t work, so had to roll back to an earlier version, seems to work just fine again.

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KeithTruman

Known Participant

I am having exactly the same issue. Also, some very strange behaviours when I am trying to edit

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wimh79344959

Participant

I have the same problem with flickering and temporary darker screen since version 27.10. It happens when I scrol or edit.

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plasticbag01

Participant

I just updated drivers for my video card (nvidia), there was a new release 08.26. Seems to have resolved things. Fingers crossed.