Mailing List AE-List@media-motion.tv ? Message #52353
From: Greg Balint <delrazoraelist@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [AE] AE CS6 Epileptic Fit - For Todd
Date: Fri, 3 Jan 2014 09:52:15 -0500
To: After Effects Mail List <AE-List@media-motion.tv>
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Man. I have been getting this as well, figured it was just a fluke of my system so I never brought it up. About once or twice a day or so I'll get it.

I work on 3 displays with my main window being centered (windows taskbar is also on my middle monitor) and my comp window is on the left monitor, so AE has two true windows open with docked tabs inside them.

I run AMD Radeon HD 6970.

Sometimes the fit happens for about 10 seconds. Other times it happens for nearly a minute.   Windows key or other clicks off of screen to something else do not fix it and I have to wait for it to finish. Feels like a focus/draw issue, but not sure. Only have it happen to AE. I get it with the "hardware accelerate composition, layer, and footage panels" option both on and off.

I always keep my GPU drivers up to date.

I run my desktop as "extended" and not "duplicate with eyefinity on it to make it one big monitor"

It started happening in 12.0 I believe. No real easy way to trigger it. Just happens out of nowhere sometimes. Seems the larger the project file, the longer the spasm takes to be over with. 

Maybe there is some similar app we all have installed that is causing this issue? Might be an alternate program or service causing this interference? 

I just saw a popup in as that said " hardware accelerated views are not supported when remote desktop services running"  I don't run RDP or the windows solution, but I DO run Splashtop, which allows me to access my desktop from my tablet when I'm away from the house to check on renders or setup simple stuff.


///Greg Balint
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On Jan 3, 2014 9:27 AM, "Andrew Embury" <aembury@gmail.com> wrote:
I thought I was the only one experiencing that...

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.

Robert



2013/12/31 Mr. Eric D. Kirk <kirkproductions@gmail.com>

Hello,

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.

Any settings or anything that could cause this?

Thanks,
Eric

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Eric D. Kirk | Kirk Productions
Hidden in the Woods | VFX
The Night Visitor | VFX
 


 
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