Flickering Indesign Screen - Solved? Maybe?

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April 5, 2025
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Hi there,

a few months ago I posted about a problem I had been having with indesign constantly flickering whenever I tried to move any assets. I was never able to fix it, and as such have had to use Illustrator for all of my file handling since.

Last night, I was absolutely sure I had managed to permanently fix it but this morning I checked and it's back to being dodgy. I was rather sleep deprived so please excuse any stupidity. I believe I 'fixed' the problem last night by turning off GPU Preview and switching to CPU. I cannot for the life of me find it on Indesign, but can on Illustrator so my best guess is a sleep deprivation induced hallucination.

If there is a way to replicate this effect on indesign please let me know as my unparamounted joy last night went right down the pooper this morning.

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Abhishek Rao

Community Manager

Hi @finlay_7977,

I hope Robert’s suggestion about toggling the GPU Performance in Preferences helped out. Are you still seeing the flickering issue, or did things settle down after that? If it’s still there, feel free to share your OS and InDesign version, and I’ll be happy to look into it further with you. Looking forward to your update!

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Abhishek

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Finlay23037858so4s

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Hi Abhishek,

just replying from my other account. I cannot toggle GPU performance as I do not use a Mac. My OS is Windows 11 and I am running Indesign version 20.2, but this problem has been occuring on every version for the past 7/8 months

Robert at ID-Tasker

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Hi Abhishek,

just replying from my other account. I cannot toggle GPU performance as I do not use a Mac. My OS is Windows 11 and I am running Indesign version 20.2, but this problem has been occuring on every version for the past 7/8 months

By @Finlay23037858so4s

Please check your graphic driver - you might need to roll back to a previous version.

Also, please check Windows updates - from the 7/8 months ago. Users had some problems in January - but it's only 4 months ago.

Or you can try and roll back InDesign - to 20.1 or even 20.0 - and then to 19.5 - but that's would be just "for fun" - if you have enough time and will.

Do you have more than one monitor / screen - like a laptop + external monitor?

Robert at ID-Tasker

Legend

GPU Performance is available on Macs only - in Preferences.

And yes - flipping it on<->off sometimes helps with flickering, "corrupted" images, etc.

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