Resizing document window "wobble effect" (Mac M1Pro vs PC RTX4090)

[tennet78]

I'm a Windows and Mac user, working a lot with photo retouching and 3D. I have a clean installed Windows 11 workstation with the latest Photoshop 2024 running. When I do quick scaling/resize of the document window inside of Adobe Photoshop, then my images get stretched — it looks like a 'wobble effect'.

My Macbook (M1 Pro) is connected to an external monitor next to the PC and this "behavior" doesn't exist on the Mac when doing the same thing. In the example I use the exact same photo as well.

Specs of both computers are seen in the video. I have just tried this again today, on my brand new PC with Windows 11 Pro, 128GB RAM and RTX 4090 graphics card installed and it behaves the same as my old PC in this video.

https://youtu.be/8NZDPySyXog?si=RvhCV_BtKvzYPVnG

Does anyone experience the same problem in Photoshop on Windows and can this be fixed? It's one of those things that make Photoshop feel so much better to work with on a Mac.

[tennet78]

By the way, I have filmed my monitors using my iphone. But the "wobble effect" looks exactly like this when I watch the displays when working.. so it is not a FPS thing ("iphone video vs monitor FPS"). Both monitors in the video are 60Hz premium monitors (Eizo ColorEdge CG279X and NEC SpectraView 272).

[tennet78]

I have now done a super-clean uninstall of all NVidia drivers using this tool — https://www.guru3d.com/download/display-driver-uninstaller-download/

I just uploaded a new video, after re-installing the NVidia "Studio Drivers" (2 months old drivers, so not the latest). Still the same problem. If I disable the GPU performace in Photoshop, then this stretch/wobble effect disappears... but then I also lose all the animated zoom functionality. But now I know it is related to the GPU settings somehow.

New video example — https://youtu.be/WsmFdQML9pU.

This 2nd video is AFTER having tweaked the 'NVidia 3D settings' according to some "recommended GPU settings for Photoshop" (on Youtube) —https://youtu.be/-2xK_uE0pAw?feature=shared 

In the latter video you can clearly see that the document sliders/borders also changes its shape when I drag and scale the document window.

This is quite annoying; it makes Photoshop feel very 'stuttery' and not very smooth when working. Really hope there are some Nvidia settings that just need to be changed somewhere.

[Jeff Arola]

This also happens on a Windows 10 laptop with just Intel UHD Graphics so i don't think it's a Nvidia graphics thing.

In addition on both Windows 10 systems i checked, the aforementioned Intel and a Windows 10 desktop with a Nvidia GTX 1650 graphics card, not only does the "wobble" happen in photoshop 2024 (ps ver 25.1), but also photoshop 2023 (ps ver 24.7.2) and 2022 (ps ver 23.5.5) as well. Photoshop 2021 (ps ver 22.5.9) on the same systems does not have the "wobble".

[tennet78]

Hi Jeff, Thank you. I just installed Photoshop ver 22.2 (the oldest version available from Creative Cloud Desktop) and suddenly all problems are gone. I can drag the image frame as much as I like and it looks as smooth as on the Macbook. Even when all GPU settings are enabled. No stuttering or anything.

New video showing the same example in Photoshop 2021 (ver 22.2) — https://youtu.be/T0BmrW0Qfgw

An interesting thing is that when I was dragging the document window in the previous videos (with the wobble effect), my GPU fans started to ramp up, just by dragging and scaling the document window, as I did. Now that I have installed Photoshop ver 22.2 (from Feb 2021!) everything works, and the GPU fans are completely silent.

So this must be something wrong in the later versions of  Photoshop then?

[tennet78]

I can confirm that two of my freelancer friends are experiencing the exact same GPU "stuttering/wobble effect" (in Windows 10 and 11) using any of the newer Photoshop release after 2021 (v22.2).