Mailing List AE-List@media-motion.tv ? Message #52356
From:
Mr. Eric D. Kirk <kirkproductions@gmail.com>
Subject:
Re: [AE] Re[2]: [AE] AE CS6 Epileptic Fit - For Todd
Date:
Fri, 3 Jan 2014 15:18:50 -0500
To:
After Effects Mail List <AE-List@media-motion.tv>, Brian Maffitt <brian@totaltraining.com>
And now we are all glad, it's not just us. Mine also continues and my driver is up to date as well. Oddly it has occurred just yet but the symptoms are exactly as Greg describes. No clicking outside does anything. In fact, nothing else is available either during the time it does this.
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.