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Photoshop mouse cursor flickering — OSX

Forum|Forum|9 years ago
January 2, 2017
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as you can see the cursor starts flickering when photoshop is running. when I quit then everything will fine.

made a fresh install. not from backup. still everything the same. this flickering effect is unpredictable because its not always flickering just a time when photoshop wants to start it

can anyone help me please? everything is up-to-date as well.

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Trevor.Dennis

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It's interesting that you have an erratic cursor issue, but it is only happening when Photoshop is running. Do you have other pointing devices connected, either by cable or wireless like a tablet? Can you disable the MBP trackpad?

If you do have a wireless mouse or other pointing device, what frequency is it using, and do you anything close that uses a similar frequency like a cordless phone? Try moving it further away. I guess this is a laptop, so you will have tried different locations?

Try starting Photoshop with the Shift key held down, just to make sure there are no third party add-ons messing things up.

What version of OSX is the MBP running? Is it up to date? Same thing with Photoshop.

bmarkokaAuthor

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Really thanks for your answer.

No, i have not got any other devices connected. I always use wacom, but nowadays i try to solve my flickering problem first.

I use my logitech MX Master via bluetooth. I work in an office so a lot of mobile phones and anything else could be found here. So i can not really get rid of them. But on the other hand if i am at home everything appears the same, when photoshop wants to trick me it starts to flickering the only solution is that closing it and restart the PS. After it works for a day or an hour or for a minute can not even deal with it. so unpredictable..

So yep, i have tried different locations still the same everything.

Everything is always up-to-date.

bmarkokaAuthor

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Hi

Instead of using "bluetooth" connection, have you tried using the USB connection/thingy ?

Pierre

Hi Pierre

No, but right now im on my way to try it

JJMack

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It may not be a Photoshop Problem do you have any third party Photoshop Plug-in installed or any Mac add-ons that may be adjusting the mouse cursor. I know Mac's have a features that can change the size of the mouse cursor. Perhaps there is a confect raging and that confect keeps changing the mouse cursor which you see as a flickering mouse cursor.

JJMack

bmarkokaAuthor

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thanks for your answer.

- havent installed any ps plugin (just because of it)

- further no mac add-ons only those programs which you can see on the menubar (forklift, istat, moom, jettison, logitech mouse driver)

the weird thing of it that everything is good on my 5K imac. but have this flickering on my 2015 early 13" macbook pro, and still extist on my new 2016 15" cto macbook pro. cant deal with it.

all fresh install

have no idea what to do but its pretty annoying and really need some help so please

postrophe

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Hi

(forklift, istat, moom, jettison, logitech mouse driver)

So, does it work better is you disable one or all these software ?

Pierre

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