Bridge 13.0 Flickering Full Screen Preview

[sjp-picker]

Select any image (jpg, nef, tiff) > View > Full screen preview > right arrow key for next image. On changing slowly to view the next image and viewing it for 5 sec or more, the image is displays properly. On changing quickly, or very quickly, through the next 3-5 images, then stopping to view an image, the viewed image does not display properly; its brightness flickers and someimes its size flickers. Must restart Bridge to fix this. Tried purging the cache and relocating the cache, but neither solved the problem.

Bridge 13.0.0.562. Windows 11 Pro (22H2, build 22621.755).  GeForce RTX 2060 (Studio driver 522,30).

[AlexJz]

So beautiful.

Not at all nausea inducing when you work.

[AlexJz]

More beauty.

[Karlijn26938385bvaz]

Unfortunately, I'm running into this issue as well. The flickering is really annoying. Lightroom is not an option for me in my workflow. Any quick fixes available? The cache fix did not sove it for me, nor did the beta version.

I work with Bridge version 14.0.1.137 on a Mac M1 Sonoma 14.6.1. Thank you!

[UnaNeshoba]

There are no fixes / workarounds and Adobe is not interested to make Bridge usable for photographers. So simply don't use Bridge anymore. I gave it up.

[love.crusader]

it's still happening in September 2024 on the latest Bridge version, as it was happening on all previous versions of Bridge that I used... Just saying...

[UnaNeshoba]

We are now 2 years further since this thread is opened and many many users claimed this bug. Many updates and new versions of Bridge were released since then. And it is a shame for Adobe, that this problem still exists!! Is it so difficult to fix this flickering problem and show photos without flickering like hundreds of other photo apps are able to do? Seriously? This is unbelievable!

[michael_kay_]

I'm just following this thread, as it is currently Aug-2025 and this issue persists.  As a paying subscriber to Adobe's line of products, I am a bit surprised by the lack of follow-through from Adobe on addressing this issue.  In our photo studio we are running 2022 Mac Studio M1 Ultra with OSX 15.6 and Adobe Bridge 15.1.1.  Thumbnails of images regularly blink/flicker (as if they're updating).  The same happens to full screen previews.  This is a problem that's easily reproduced, and I invite Adobe to contact me so that I may share with them a video screen recording if that's what's needed to help them isolate and address this issue: [Content removed by Moderator]

Subsequently, I had tried reporting this using Adobe's Bug Report form, which is oddly enough, also broken (see attached).

[jimkahnw]

I agree. I'm running an identical system as you and my version of Bridge
also flickers. There is no flickering in Lightroom.

Flickering has persisted through numerous updates.

Adobe, please fix this.

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Jim

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[gary_sc]

Hi, @jimkahnw, I removed your email address from the forum becuase not everyone in these forums is a good person. In general, in a public forum such as this, it's never a good idea to leave any personal information, contact information, or anything that someone can use.

[gary_sc]

for all of you who are having this issue, it's imparative that you let us know the kind of computer you are using, the operating system (and release), and the type of file you are witnessing this issue with. For the record, I've been using Bridge, since v. 1, and I've never ever experienced this issue. However, I have read people witnessing this issue for longer than this thread. For the engineers to solve this, they need all the data they can get.

Oh, if the engineers want to contact you, they can contact you with DM in this forum software. If you look at the upper right corner of the page, there is a globe, an envelope, a bell, and your image. If you see a red number on the envelope, that is someone DMing you.

[sjp-picker]

8/7/2025: I posted the original complaint. I have since updated repeatedly and now I'm using Bridge 15.11.729 on Windows 11 Pro 23H2 build 22631.5699. The PC is custom built, with ACER ROG STRIX Z690-E GAMING WIFI Rev 1.xx with BIOS 4101, 12th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-12700K 3.60 GHz, 64.0 GB RAM, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 with 12GB RAM and NVIDIA Studio Driver 577.00. I currently have no flickering problems. I'm surprised to learn that peole are still using Bridge 13 and suffering with flickering. My experience has been that updating Adobe, Windows and NVIDIA software eventually solved the flickering problem on my PC.

[gary_sc]

Hi, @michael_kay_, I removed your email address from the forum becuase not everyone in these forums is a good person. In general, in a public forum such as this, it's never a good idea to leave any personal information, contact information, or anything that someone can use.