Lightroom secondary display window constantly flickering

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March 6, 2024
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I'm having real problems using the secondary display in Lightroom since updating to a new M3 Macbook Pro, with dual Apple studio displays. Running LR 13.2, which was fine on my old imac.

I normally use one display for the Lightroom main screen and develop module, and the second display with the Lightroom secondary display in Loupe view. This has always worked really well till now, however all if does now is constantly flicker, especially when moving between images. The main trigger seems to be changing the rating of an image, and then the dsecondary display disappears momentarily.

Sometimes it just disappears, and I need to click on the main window for it to reappear.

It is not my montor connection, as only the LR window flickers, not anything else on the display.

I've tried running the main window and secondary display window on the same screen, but it still disappears in the same way, but then bounces back up in the middle of my second display, not where I positioned it. It's all very frustrating!

Does anyone know how to fix this?

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mk29376512

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Can confirm I have the same issue, M1 Macbook Air, everything latest update. Did not notice this until I recently upgraded to Sonoma, found teh tread looking for a fix.

noram47758603

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Just in case this helps someone else searching for an answer for this - I found suggested in another similar thread that turning off GPU Acceleration stops the flickering from happening. Tested just now and it seems to be accurate. OBV what this does to your performance will depend on your computer's build etc., but if secondary display is essential you may find the trade-off to be worth it.

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mijbil250456Author

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Thank you- turning off GPU acceleration has helped, and I haven’t seen a massive drop in performance, only preview generation speed, which I can live with as opposed to the secondary display disappearing constantly.

Reading the details GPU acceleration only works on the main display, so it would make sense that the two displays are getting different levels of acceleration. However it is still certainly a bug which I wish Adobe would resolve, as it never happened before v13.