Display tearing in CS 6 persists - anyone else experiencing this?

I am indeed getting the same horizontal display tearing as you are. I have an older Mac Pro 2,1 with an ATI Radeon HD 4870. I noticed the tearing right away after installing CS6 Master last night. Same project in CS5 has no tearing whatsoever. Not encouraging to hear that even with a different video card you are experiencing the same issue. I have seen this issue on the creativecow forums and elsewhere on the adobe forums. Hopefully someone has an answer soon.

I have this problem too.

My machine is set up for DaVinci resolve - it has a flashed 470, same as above posted, and an officially supported GT120. After Effects will use whichever one the main monitor is plugged into for OpenGL - and both cards display massive tearing when dragging the comp preview window and playing back.

Running Snow Leopard 10.6.8

Have you considered filing a bug report?

I just filed an official bug report. But I'm of the same mind and have posted this in multiple places.

I have read elsewhere that this is a graphics card issue, but if CS5 running on the same system can display tear free playback, ( both desktop Mac Pro and laptop) then something is not right

I thought it might be graphics card related as well. However there is no display tearing in CS5. Plus I have seen this reported with GTX 285, GTX 470, Quadro 4000, ATI Radeon HD 4870, and several laptop gpus. The only common thing so far is that it seems to only happen in OS X (both Lion and Snow Leopard) and not Windows.

pkroll I can't seem to track down that particular link. It was a random google find that I cant seem to re-create. However on the Creative Cow forums there are people using the GTX470, 285, and ATI 4780 with the same issues.

Still no fix in sight huh? This problem is very annoying and I am sticking with After Effects CS5 until the issue is resolved sadly.

We know about tearing with certain formats and are working hard on a fix.

Same here. Here is a link to some quick snapshots of the problem on my system. I'm running an ATI 4870.

http://forums.adobe.com/message/4490034

I see the problem on my MacBook Pro, but not on my PC. See the other thread for details.

http://forums.adobe.com/thread/1003909?tstart=0

I am having the same tearing issue in CS6 After Effects on my 6 core Mac Pro, with an ATI 5870 HD card. The same project files display fine in CS5.5. Looking for a solution...

An update to my previous post: I initially saw this with video files (AVCHD MTS) as I had only been testing CS6 with video files. Now I see what others are reporting, with animated solids. The same "tearing" display with RAM previews also happen with animated text. I've spent a few hours trying different settings, but to no avail.

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I don't know if its "tearing" I'm experienceing, but there is certainly some screen rendering problem going on with CS6.

I'm on a Windows 7, Quad Core, 2.4 Ghz, 8 GB memory, with Nvidia GeoForce 8500, 521 mb Video ram.  Its been adequate with previous versions, but now, I'm getting this strobing effect, where the program display flickers off an on less than 24 times/sec after I make some change to a graphic.  The change will appear, after 30 sec to 1 minute.  But the program is virtually unusable.

:<)Greg

I made a video of what mine looks like:

http://youtu.be/xJK6U7qWKTQ

That is not the dsiplay tearing we are speaking of. What we are seeing is only in the AE preview window and are usually horizontal tears or seperations. Yours is a whole screen flickering issue...which may be video card related.

Just filed a bug report, as I have this problem too. Hope we receive a fix asap.

I'm also having this screen tearing problem on my 2012 Mac Pro 12 core running OSX Lion 10.7.4.  Things were fine on the stock ATI card that came with it, but as soon as I installed a GTX 480 card from MacVidCards on eBay I got screen tearing in both AE CS5 and CS6.  It's not quite as bad as what pkroll shows in his youtube video - just one line that slowly moves down my screen and then repeats - but it's definitely distracting and not ideal.  I get it when ram previewing and moving things around in the viewport.  I'm not sure what to do since it looks like many people are getting this issue, even on "approved" video cards. 

It's been a month since Adobe's post saying they're working on it.  Is it fixed on your end yet, Adobe?

natevplas - Thanks for posting here. If you haven't already, please send a bug report with your system info to Adobe. Even if they are aware of the problem, providing your info may help them decipher the cause. More bug reports also emphasize the need to fix this sooner than later.

Check this thread...

http://forums.adobe.com/message/4408018#4408018

Looks like the tearing also happens with colored solids.

We've isolated the problem to an issue with how Mac OS deals with vertical sync and OpenGL. We are working on a fix.

See the list of significant bug fixes in the next version of After Effects:

http://blogs.adobe.com/aftereffects/2013/04/whats-new-changed-after-effects-next.html

This issue is fixed.

Todd - This is good news, albeit somewhat late in coming. I was expecting Adobe would have provided a free maintainence fix for the tearing issue months ago. The new features in CS7 AE are impressive, but paying to upgrade to CS7 for "significant bug fixes" to my CS6 Master Collection is an addational cost to bear for buggy software.

David,

No one has said specifically that this bug will or won't also be in an update for CS6. I won't comment on that yet if asked, either. But keep in mind that we have many times released bug-fix updates for a previous version even after releasing a paid upgrade to the next version.

Yes, it's fixed in After Effects CC (12.0). It's listed in the bug fixes on this page, as I said above.

No, it's not fixed in the After Effects CS6 (11.0.2) update.

We don't yet know whether it will be fixed in the next After Effects CS6 update. You can cast your vote for it to be fixed in the next CS6 update here: http://www.adobe.com/go/wish

Adobe After Effects CS6 (11.0.3) has been released. This update fixes many crashes and other bugs, including this OpenGL tearing issue.

Details: http://adobe.ly/AE_CS6_1103

Also, this fix is in After Effects CC (12.0), as mentioned above.