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Vega MBP screen flickering (with Poll!)
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they couldn't, screen capture doesn't record it. (been through that with apple, had to record it with phone)
Does your screen flicker with a standard resolution 1680x1050 on internal display?
I have tested with a new Mojave beta and it seams mine flickers only with a none standard resolution.
I have tested with a new Mojave beta and it seams mine flickers only with a none standard resolution.
Initially I thought it might be a display resoultion compatability issue between the external monitor and MacBook. Mine seems to flicker when the GPU kicks in (i.e. watching video, inputs: keyboard, trackpad, mouse, ect.)
Really? Weird. I always used mine at 1440x900 because that's the true "default". Maybe the flickering doesn't happen if you don't change the resolution?
It's not actually 1440x900, Apple just refers to it as "Looks like 1440x900" in the Displays System Preferences. See these post for more info - https://www.anandtech.com/show/5996/how-the-retina-display-macbook-pro-handles-scaling and https://9to5mac.com/2016/12/02/15-inch-macbook-pro-screen-resolution-blurry/
So was it this thread that was responsible for all the damage this afternoon?
Added poll. Partly to find out if the Vega 16 is affected. Every example so far has been with the Vega 20.
Partly to find out if the Vega 16 is affected. Every example so far has been with the Vega 20.Hi,
I haven't noticed any screen flickering on my MBP with vega 20 but my Mac Pro had the same issues in macOS Sierra. When I changed the scaling (in order to have better readable fonts on my 4k monitor) the screen was flickering from time to time. The issue was solved by a macOS update. To me it sounds like a driver issue in Mojave.
I haven't noticed any screen flickering on my MBP with vega 20 but my Mac Pro had the same issues in macOS Sierra. When I changed the scaling (in order to have better readable fonts on my 4k monitor) the screen was flickering from time to time. The issue was solved by a macOS update. To me it sounds like a driver issue in Mojave.
The floor models won’t let you change the automatic graphics switching setting, so can’t quite replicate the circumstances in which I experienced flickering, at least. Believe me, I tried!
Yeah, for me I never connected any external display. I was just using my MBP with nothing but the power cable connected, I updated to 10.14.2 and voilà, flickering.
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Is there anyone who's experiencing those flickering issues without having the scaling / resolution changed? If not then it seems to be a macOS problem as mentioned above. In case someone can reproduce the flickering please check if the problem persists when changing the scaling / resolution to standard.
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