Flickering black boxes when zooming on selection

[lildreng]

When selecting an area and zooming, black boxes pop up. This is, of course, incredibly annoying. 

The issue does not occur when i have not selected an area (see the linked video).

Interestingly it does not happen when i've zoomed in a lot either(~200-250%), even when a selection is made. 

 

To fix this I have tried:

Turning hardware acceleration on/off in performance

Changing retina rendering settings in performance

Turning G-sync on/off in NVIDIA Control Panel

Updating all drivers

changing my monitors framerate from 144hz to 60hz

 

I am using an RTX 3060TI, and an ASUS VG27A Monitor.

Any help or ideas would be greatly appreciated!

 

Edited August 26, 2024 by lildreng
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[Komatös]

The Affinity programs calculate the image display mostly in real time. But it's nothing you need to worry about.

[lildreng]

I don't worry about it, i just find it very annoying as it hurts the eyes after a while. Do you have any ideas to fix it?

I should add, it often gets worse than in the video.

Edited August 26, 2024 by lildreng

[Komatös]

27 minutes ago, lildreng said:

Do you have any ideas to fix it?

Unfortunately, I don't know a solution for this.

[walt.farrell]

There have been (and still are, I think) unfixed issues with G-Sync and the Affinity apps.

I would try with these specific settings:

• G-Sync off
• Retina Rendering: High-Quality (slowest) in Photo Settings, Performance
• Hardware Acceleration Off in Photo Settings, Performance (will require an application Restart)

If you still experience it with all those settings set that way, I don't have any other ideas.

[lildreng]

Hey Walt, thanks for the the reply, and for the suggestion.

I tried with those specific settings but without luck, the flickering boxes still appear.

I tried restarting the computer with those settings applied as well, but this didn't change anything either.

[walt.farrell]

Thanks for trying them.

[NathanC]

Welcome to the forums @lildreng and apologies for the late reply,

I can also trigger this flicker issue regardless of Renderer and Hardware Acceleration state provided a pixel selection is active, but it's quite intermittent. I'll get this logged with the developers for further investigation. 🙂

[lildreng]

Thanks a lot @NathanC !

[bbrother]

This was first reported in 2021. It has nothing to do with hardware. It's about how the app is built and how it handles rendering tiles when zooming in or out — at least that's what another moderator [Chris B] told me. It sucks and shouldn't happen in app advertised as professional. Re-drawing when zooming in/out should be smooth. 

@lildreng it can get worse in quick mask mode (Q on keyboard to turn on) when you zoom in or out.

 

[lildreng]

Thanks for the link and information, @bbrother!

it really does seem that they consider this "working as intended", and that they're not working on fixing it. 

Honestly incredibly disappointing, I would definitely have asked for a refund if I knew the issue is just going to persist.  

Just makes me thankful that I don't have epilepsy. Editing brighter pictures would be impossible then, with the intensity of the flickers. Especially on higher resolution images