P: Cursor stuttering & screen flickering in Photoshop on high refresh rate G-sync monitors

[Earth Oliver]

If you're a nvidia gsync user and experiencing mouse stuttering in Ps (and all Adobe apps), try turning off gsync to see if that resolves the issue. 
Basically what happens is that any activity in an Adobe app will result in 2-3 seconds of micro-cursor stuttering (looks like frame rate dropping) and the occasional 3-4 seconds of cursor freeze. Disabling gsync fixes the issue. This behavior appears only in Adobe apps and none other.

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[Laxmi Jain]

Where can I find G-sync in Nvidia Control Panel?

[CoryShubert]

@Laxmi Jain 

[migueld78563742]

I am experimenting the same issue, Adobe please fix this nonesense. Just make it a priority.

[justindk]

I've been experiencing this issue for a few years now and the only way to fix it for me is to turn off GPU acceleration in Ps/Lr or turn off G-Sync altogether. All of my software and drivers are up to date and G-Sync is off in relevant profiles. Like a previous user said, I've been using Adobe products for years and G-Sync since 2014 and never ran into this issue until a few years back.

[ckbeattie]

My only solution to this so far has been changing the global setting to 'Monitor Refresh Rate: Fixed Refresh Rate'. If you are gaming or using software that uses G-SYNC, you must manually set their profiles to Monitor Refresh Rate: G-SYNC to involke it or if there's a setting that overrides that in the game preferences, use it. Adobe could easily fix this by adding an option in preferences: 'Request Max Frame Redraw (Uses more power)' to tell the GFX card to overlay a redraw layer that utilizes the maximum refresh rate of the monitor independent of the redraw capability of Photoshop. That would solve the problem of flickering on default enabled G-SYNC drivers.

[ckbeattie]

Sorry, by 'Monitor Refresh Rate' I actually mean 'Monitor Technology' in my previous post. 🙂