Sometimes my entire laptop screen flickers a glitchy green when I use krita. Only my laptop screen has this flickering, it does not show on my drawing display tablet.
It seems to be triggered by drawing or moving a layer.
Though sometimes when I use krita, the flickering doesn’t happen at all and there is no problem.
I have the newest version of krita (5.1.0) and I’m on windows.
Hello @mmm and welcome to the forum!
Possibly the graphics of your laptop is working at the edge of the load limit? But it’s hard to say, because you didn’t mention which laptop (manufacturer and model) you are using and with which hardware equipment the laptop has. So which CPU, how much RAM, with shared graphics or with dedicated GPU that has its own graphics RAM and there again size of the graphics RAM, also the used resolutions and bit depths would be interesting in such a case, and finally which Windows exactly, 7, 8, 8.1, 10, 11?
As a shot in the dark, I would try switching between ‘‘OpenGL’’ and ‘‘Direct3D via Angle’’ and see if it makes a difference, and then choose the better working option. You can find this under ‘‘Settings’’ >> ‘‘Configure Krita’’ >> ‘‘Display’’ >> ‘‘Canvas Acceleration’’. Next guess, try to reduce the resolution of your Laptop-Display while you work with Krita, if that is possible (it is often disabled).
I could imagine that your laptop is running at its performance limit and Windows is allocating less resources to the currently unused screen, but that’s just a guess.
Unfortunately, the possibilities to improve the hardware are usually very small or non-existent with portable hardware.
Michelist
Hey! Thanks for the reply
Here’s info I gathered:
Windows 11, Lenovo, Ideapad flex 5.
CPU is Intel Core i7. I have 16,0GB RAM.
GPU’s
Intel(R) Iris(R) Plus Graphics
NVIDIA GeForce MX330
Is there any necessary info missing? Please tell me
Also, I’ve run into an additional problem. My krita crashed multiple times when I was making a background animation using transform mask and animation curves.
Idk if this is necessary information but I looked at task manager on my laptop when some lag happened, and krita was using over thousand MB. I was personally shocked but maybe it’s normal lmao
I was making a file size of 1920x2800 move, so maybe it was too much for my laptop to handle, causing crashes.
I managed to finish the animation without crash eventually though! And I’m saving often so I don’t lose my work if it crashes again.
I haven’t experienced the screen flickering in a while, I’m using Direct3D via ANGLE and it works alright at the moment.
Please tell me what you think.
Your Laptops specs are alright, but an animation that big may need, depending on the number of used/needed layers and frames, a massive amount of resources.
I can’t tell you if these are needed because I don’t know in what resolution the animation should be watched when ready, and Animation is not my thing, I’m a layman in that terrain. It would be better to hear users who know Animation in Krita better than I do.
Michelist
Edit/Add: Transform masks and animation curves need much computation, so this can be a bottleneck leading to crashes.
Okay. Thank you for the info!
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