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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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casual_Walrus5C6F

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After installing version 27.10, I noticed that while working with the project, the application seems to be taking screenshots of the screen: the screen with the program periodically flashes. I rolled back to version 27.9, and everything went back to normal.

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KeithTruman

Known Participant

I have rolled back too

kglad

Community Expert

make sure your updated driver is the studio (not gamer) version.

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Pete Owens

Participant

Hi Kglad, yes, it is the latest Studio version from NVIDIA. I have now changed the colour output in the NVIDIA app from “default”, to “NVIDIA” to control the colour output. I’m also running all this on Windows 11. My monitor also supports 10bit colour depth, it was on 8bit. So, changed it 10Bit. Works like a dream, with no problems. Happy days!

kglad

Community Expert

glad the issues resolved!

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Pete Owens

Participant

Photoshop 27.10.0, NVIDIA Studio driver 606.56 (updated last week). Worked perfect before NVIDIA update. Now while using Photoshop the screen intermittingly flickers. This happens a few times a minute. Is this a known bug? Can it be fixed? Thank you.

mjmdvm

Inspiring

The only thing that worked for me was to roll back to the previous version

나른용

Known Participant

개판이네 글을 지맘대로 고쳐서 표현을 하네;;

나른용

Known Participant

깜박임 이 글씨가 사라져 보이는데 문장을 지 맘대로 고치네;;

나른용

Known Participant

포토샵 현재 최신 업데이트 버전 27.10 업데이트 이후

화면 깜박이는 현상이 발생되고 있습니다. 계속 간혈적으로 깜박 입니다.

그래픽카드 최신 8월 26일자 업데이트도 해봤지만 동일한 증상일어남

윈도우 11 / RTX 3060 / amd 라이젠 5 5600X / 램 32GB

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Mike31515738p5ve

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I’m experiencing the same thing.

Everything looks normal until I start performing any action (moving the elements of a layer around, creating a text box, resizing something, literally anything).

After a few moments, just the view within the workspace seems to darker as if a brightness adjustment layer was created and the brightness was lowered all the way down.

But it doesn’t just affect the canvas. The default gray background around the canvas is also affected, turning completely black.

This is the only post I’ve been able to find where others seem to be having the same problem. Hopefully someone sees this and finds a fix soon.

marcos.mkn

Participating Frequently

Estou passando pelo mesmo problema, a tela da rapidas piscadas, no meu caso são piscadas escuras, e são aleatorias, não tem um tempo certo pra acontecer

marcosmkn

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Daniel rodriguez

Participant

la pantalla parpadea mucho

marcos.mkn

Participating Frequently

Estou passando praticamente pelo mesmo problema. No meu caso, essas piscadas também começaram recentemente e acontecem apenas na tela em que o Photoshop está aberto.

Uso dois monitores e fiz alguns testes: quando deixo o Photoshop no monitor 1, é esse monitor que pisca. Quando movo o Photoshop para o monitor 2, as piscadas passam a acontecer no monitor 2. Às vezes, depois que fecho o Photoshop, ainda ocorre uma última piscada e depois para.

Também já atualizei o driver da placa de vídeo e testei versões anteriores do driver, mas o problema continua. Cheguei a suspeitar da GPU, porém testei jogos e outros programas e não tive nenhum problema semelhante.

Pelo que estou percebendo, parece ser algo relacionado especificamente ao Photoshop, principalmente porque isso começou recentemente.

marcosmkn

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