Mailing List AE-List@media-motion.tv ? Message #52352
From:
Robert Kjettrup <robert@stvmayday.dk>
Subject:
Re: [AE] AE CS6 Epileptic Fit - For Todd
Date:
Fri, 3 Jan 2014 15:31:56 +0100
To:
After Effects Mail List <AE-List@media-motion.tv>
i see it on a Quadro K5000 with latest Quadro drivers, and on GTX 670 and GTX 780 cards. Soo all Nvidia, i dont know if that has anything to do with it?
Good to know it's a common issue, what graphics card are you running?
Cheers.
- Andrew
On Fri, Jan 3, 2014 at 2:15 PM, Robert Kjettrup <robert@stvmayday.dk> wrote:
I see this on all our windows 7 workstations once in a while, and i think like Todd it is some graphics card/driver related. It seems like it fights over screendrawing, and i have only seen it with AE, but im not blaming AE to be the problem, it just happens i spend ~90% of my time in AE so it usually is seen with AE :-D
I can fix it by quickly pressing the Windows key to bring up the start menu, that seems to force a redraw of the screen and everything is back to normal.
Now that you are on Win8 the win key of course works a bit differently. Maybe try to press Win+C to bring up the clock and Charms menu and see if that forces a redraw too and stops the flickering.
This is probably suited for Todd but if anyone else has experienced this, I appreciate the help. I keep getting what I've been referring to as an epileptic fit with AE. That seems the best way to describe it. Every once in a while (too often) it just starts this spasming and flickering where I see all of the other windows showing through as it flickers. I've never lost anything due to this but it goes for like a full minute or more sometimes before it stops.
Any thoughts on what could cause this? I purge my memory probably way more than necessary, thinking that might help but it doesn't.
I'm running windows 8 and it's done it quite a bit and more so since the recent update to 8.1.