AE CS5 Flickering Screen and crash

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AE CS5 Flickering Screen and crash

Posted by Alex Neuman on October 4, 2010 at 6:12 pm

Hi All,

I am on a Mac Pro Quad Core 10.6.4 Nvidia 4800 graphics card and AE CS5.

After using AE for about 30 min my monitors start flickering and my computer crashes. I also have FCP and Smoke in the same machine and I never get this problem with those applications.

Anyone having similar issues?
Thanks,

AN

Alex Neuman replied 15 years, 7 months ago 3 Members · 5 Replies
5 Replies

Alex Neuman
October 4, 2010 at 7:09 pm

Thanks Dave,

How do I upgrade?

AN

Alex N.
Kevin Camp
October 4, 2010 at 8:47 pm

actually it would be an update… to download that you can simply choose help>updates… from the after effects menu.

also, so try and remedy the ae issue, make sure you have opengl disabled in the ae preferences (preferences>previews, then uncheck the option for ‘enable opengl’).

and if you use effects that have an opengl option, disable it that too (they should also have a check box for opengl within the effect’s settings).

Kevin Camp
Senior Designer
KCPQ, KMYQ & KRCW
Alex Neuman
October 4, 2010 at 9:25 pm

Thanks Kevin,

I meant update, but thanks for all the tips, haven’t used AE in a few years although I have been using it since 1993 🙂

AN

Alex N.
Todd Kopriva
October 4, 2010 at 11:45 pm

Actually, this issue isn’t fixed by an update to After Effects; it’s fixed by an update to Mac OS:
https://blogs.adobe.com/toddkopriva/2010/08/snow-leopard-graphics-update-should-help-with-opengl-driver-issues.html

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Alex Neuman
October 6, 2010 at 2:40 pm

Thanks for all the responses guys, I think I got it fixed with the updates.

AN

Alex N.

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