AE CS5 Locks up with screen fluttering or flashing

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AE CS5 Locks up with screen fluttering or flashing

Posted by Mark Underkofler on July 21, 2010 at 8:20 pm

I’ve got an interesting problem with CS5. Much as Pixel Polly would cause CS3 to crash my multiprocessor G5, certain plugins seem to be causing a similar problem in CS5.

When applying certain parameters to CC Flo Motion the screen starts flashing (flickering) and the whole computer is locked up. Nothing short of a cold reboot will restore any functions.

Is it the CC plugins?

Thanks in advance,

G5 Dual Quadcore
4gigs RAM
CS5 ver 10.0
Snow Lepard10.6.4
QT 10.0

Todd Kopriva replied 15 years, 8 months ago 7 Members · 9 Replies
9 Replies

Kevin Camp
July 21, 2010 at 8:31 pm

try disabling opengl acceleration for previews. choose after effects>preferences>previews and uncheck the option for opengl (i have cs4, but i assume that the preference is still there for cs5).

note this would probably fix the pixel poly problem with cs3 on your old g5 too 😉

Kevin Camp
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Chris Wright
July 21, 2010 at 8:32 pm

I’ve seen that before. They can’t handle 0 or 100, so be careful not to drag the slider all the way left or right.

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Darby Edelen
July 21, 2010 at 11:45 pm

I was experiencing this issue last week on my Mac Pro.

Disabling OpenGL previews in the ‘Preview’ section of preferences seems to have fixed it.

Darby Edelen
Steven Escobar
July 22, 2010 at 4:41 am

I am having this problem as well. I’ve disabled Open GL and I am using CC plug ins. Has anyone figured out the solution, if there even is one?

Steven Escobar

G4 1.25MHz Dual MDD
1.25 RAM
IgniterX RT w/component
QT 6.04
OS X.2.8
FCP 4.1
Med
Jason Boucher
July 22, 2010 at 1:12 pm

I had this issue for the first time yesterday. Disabling openGL solved the issue. I wasn’t using any effects at the time it froze up, so it appears to be an openGL problem.

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Todd Kopriva
July 22, 2010 at 10:42 pm

Mac OS 10.6.4 introduced problems with NVIDIA drivers. We recommend staying with version 10.6.3 until this issue is resolved. This problem affects many applications, not just After Effects.

For example:
https://news.softpedia.com/news/Valve-Signals-Mac-OS-X-10-6-4-Performance-Issues-for-Nvidia-Users-145395.shtml

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Todd Kopriva
August 17, 2010 at 11:31 pm

Apple has released a fix.

Let us know if it works for you.

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Mark Underkofler
August 18, 2010 at 1:08 pm

Thanks for the info Todd. Can you provide a link for the fix?

Thanks!

Mark
Todd Kopriva
August 18, 2010 at 3:06 pm

> Thanks for the info Todd. Can you provide a link for the fix?

The link in my message goes to an announcement that points to the Apple page.

Apple releases OS updates through its own Software Update system.

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