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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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Virtual_Architects

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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.

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Mateusz Piotrowski

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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

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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)

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SnowSultan

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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.

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SnowSultan

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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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Bst_Turk7572

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I can confirm this issue after updating to Photoshop 27.10 on Windows 11 with an NVIDIA RTX 3060 12GB.

The entire monitor where the Photoshop window is displayed starts flickering/flashing intermittently. If I move Photoshop to another monitor, the flickering follows the application to that display.

This started immediately after updating to 27.10 and did not occur in the previous version.

System:

Windows 11
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12GB
Multi-monitor setup

This looks like a clear regression introduced in 27.10, most likely related to GPU/UI compositing.

For a professional application used in production environments, a display-level flickering issue of this kind is quite serious and frankly should have been caught before release.

Please investigate this as a priority. Having to roll back a production workstation because a stable update introduces full-screen flickering is not an acceptable workflow.

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gtrunci

Participant

I have a color flickering here. The colors get stronger and after a few seconds gets back to normal.

Downgrading...

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Erin26

Community Manager

It sounds like a few different issues may be getting reported in this thread.

Regarding the flickering issue, CarlosMesquita_influxus mentioned that it appears to be fixed in the latest Beta build. Can others confirm whether the flickering is also resolved for them in Beta? If so, the fix has already been made and will be included in the upcoming release.

Please let us know whether or not you’re still seeing the flickering issue in the latest Beta build, as this will help us determine whether any further investigation or action is needed.

I’m also testing with an NVIDIA card and have not been able to reproduce the issue. If you are still seeing the issue in the Beta build, a recording showing what you’re doing when the flickering occurs would be very helpful. If the flickering doesn’t appear in a screen recording, a video taken with your phone works well too.

Thank you to everyone who has provided details and helped us investigate this issue.

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CarlosMesquita_influxus

Known Participant

Just to clarify: I haven't tested the latest Beta build because I've never received the Beta version, so I did not report that the flickering is fixed in Beta.

My report is that the flickering occurs in Photoshop 27.10.0 with my RTX 2060 when the GPU is enabled, but does not occur in Photoshop 26.11.4 on the exact same system.

Another unrelated issue in version 27.10 is that, with the Spot Healing Brush Tool, the keyboard shortcuts to increase or decrease the brush size sometimes stop working. When this happens, I have to close and restart Photoshop.

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Lucas Gabutti

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si me pasa lo mismo desde que actualice hace 2 días

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Nathan REP

Known Participant

While the preferences settings Tranquil_problemae64 points out might temporarily resolve screen flicker, I’d like to point out that you can lose smoothness when zooming and doing other operations.

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