Cursor Screen Flickering bug

Bug Report
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When I move my mouse over the IDE window everything flickers and makes the app unusable. I tried e-mailing hi@cursor.sh but there’s no reply. Can I please get some help as this is hampering my software development and frustrating me a lot.

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Hi @SamuraiCobra ,

Out of interest, are you able to share your system/version info from:

Cursor > Help > About

The additional information may help in troubleshooting the behaviour.

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Yes of course @litecode ! Thanks for the reply.

Version: 0.39.5
VSCode Version: 1.91.1
Commit: 274e2e5d572bd0b99449183635a0f94c7b9f54d0
Date: 2024-08-14T15:49:16.270Z
Electron: 29.4.0
ElectronBuildId: undefined
Chromium: 122.0.6261.156
Node.js: 20.9.0
V8: 12.2.281.27-electron.0
OS: Windows_NT x64 10.0.19045

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I’ve reached out to support both through e-mail and here on the forum with no real response. I’ve cancelled my subscription. So disappointing.

5

no worries its typical here im waiting 3 weeks for a simple response (its just a question not even a problem XD) also canceled

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I had the same issue. I don’t know if you have a 4k monitor, but I moved my window from a 4k screen to a 1440p one and it doesn’t flicker any more

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I am having the same issue, is there any solution for it

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I found a solution. Check my post below at the end of the thread.

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I found that this is an issue with Electron:

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I found a solution. Finally! The issue seems to be related to nVidia GPU’s and Electron apps using Hardware Acceleration. The trick is to disable hardware acceleration for IDE GUI rendering.

In Cursor press Ctrl+Shft+P and select “Preferences: Configure Runtime Arguments” which will open up argv.json for Cursor.

Add:

"disable-hardware-acceleration": true,

The comma at the end is necessary if there are other arguments in the brackets.

Close and reopen the editor. Issue fixed!

It’s actually baked into the file already you just have to uncomment it. See below:

// NOTE: Changing this file requires a restart of VS Code.
{
// Use software rendering instead of hardware accelerated rendering.
// This can help in cases where you see rendering issues in VS Code.
// "disable-hardware-acceleration": true,
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Thank you very much! It solved my problem!