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Screen flickers black on and off when moving around canvas or doing anything in Photoshop

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August 20, 2021
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I have photoshop 2021, windows 10 pro latest version, and a nvidia 3080 with newest drivers and every time I use photoshop with the graphics card enabled it will flicker black intermittently while trying to use the program. I'll move the canvas, it will flash a black screen, show the screen again, etc. If I do an action like camera raw, same thing happens. Can't use the program like this, any ideas on how to fix?

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Correct answer Kevin Stohlmeyer

Try going to Preferences/Technology Preview and check "Deactivate native canvas" then relaunch PS.

If that doesn't work - is your graphics card being detected under Preferences/Performance?

Do you have more than 1 graphics card installed?

PECourtejoie

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Hello, do you have GSYNC active in the nVidia drivers?

Some users reported that deactivating "animated zoom" in preferences/tools helped

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White5FB8

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some people use NVIDIA game ready which is not compatible for applications, but the studio driver is compatible for all applications . my premiere pro has no flickers black after using NVIDIA studio driver

NB, colourmanagement

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Hi,

as you still have issues I wonder if updating the video card's drivers might help?

I hope this helps
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Kevin Stohlmeyer

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Try going to Preferences/Technology Preview and check "Deactivate native canvas" then relaunch PS.

If that doesn't work - is your graphics card being detected under Preferences/Performance?

Do you have more than 1 graphics card installed?

DabatrossAuthor

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Thanks Kevin, turning on the option to deactivate the native canvas fixed the black flicker issue.

One more problem I see that is happening though is that panning around is not smooth. It stutters and is choppy when I drag around with the hand tool. Do you have an idea on what could be causing that? I only have one graphics card and it is detected by PS.

Kevin Stohlmeyer

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Check your performance preferences settings for cache level and cache tile size. If you hover over the names of the options it will explain what each does.

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