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marko75904204
Inspiring
September 18, 2025
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Can't turn off live preview - Real time drawing turned off

Having a weird issue where if I draw a shape illustrator is showing a live preview of the stroke and fill, however I have "Real time drawing and editing" turned off? 

Is there a way to get this back to how it used to be where:
• Viewing using GPU
• Real time drawing and editing turned OFF
• No live preview

Version: 29.8.1

Ton Frederiks
Ton FrederiksCorrect answer
Community Expert
September 18, 2025

Previous versions worked different. See: https://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/601447/suggestions/50476110

 

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bénédictec16614533
Participant
September 24, 2025

Same here. Very annoying. Thanks for the correction in the next version! 

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Anubhav M
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Anubhav MCommunity Manager
Community Manager
September 25, 2025

Hello @marko75904204,

Our team has tried fixing this in the latest Illustrator (Beta). Would you mind installing to see if it helps resolve the problem?

Looking forward to hearing from you.
Anubhav

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    Ton Frederiks
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    Ton FrederiksCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    September 25, 2025

    Works fine in Beta for me.

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    Ton Frederiks
    Community Expert
    Ton FrederiksCommunity ExpertCorrect answer
    Community Expert
    September 18, 2025

    Previous versions worked different. See: https://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/601447/suggestions/50476110

     

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    marko75904204Author
    Inspiring
    September 18, 2025

    This is the same issue i'm experiencing 

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    Ton Frederiks
    Community Expert
    Ton FrederiksCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    September 18, 2025

    Looked like it, you may want to add your vote there to get it fixed.

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    Anubhav M
    Community Manager
    Anubhav MCommunity Manager
    Community Manager
    September 18, 2025

    Hello @marko75904204,

    Thanks for reaching out. Could you share a small screen recording of your exact workflow and the version of Illustrator where you did not have the same problem (https://adobe.ly/487nux5) so I can better assist you?

    Looking forward to hearing from you.

    Anubhav

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    marko75904204Author
    Inspiring
    September 18, 2025

    Thanks for getting back so quick screen recording here. 

    So in the previous version the Real-Time drawing and Editing performance was turned off and view was set to view using GPU. 

    Now it has live preview turned on when drawing even when Real-Time drawing and Editing is turned off the only way to have it perform how it used to is to set the view to using CPU, but I want to return to GPU preview with no live-preview 

    Screen Recording 

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