Status bar icon flashing

[rkmcswain]

I finally managed to capture this phenomenon.... It happens every day, several times a day, but I was never able to capture it until now...

Does this happen to anyone else. Seems to occur when you open and close various palettes, but it's not reproducible on demand.  

Civil 3D 2013, latest updates, Quadro 2000 (driver ver 9.18.13.1125)

[troma]

Just C3D's way of telling you it's coffee time. Or is it that you've had too much already?

[rkmcswain]

It drives me nuts.

Mainly because I want to know WHY it does this...!!

[troma]

Is it the same problem as this one in LT?
http://forums.autodesk.com/t5/AutoCAD-LT/AutoCAD-LT-2014-Flickering-Issue/m-p/3875348#M113188

There seems to be a consensus on a solution at the end of that thread.

[rkmcswain]

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@troma wrote:

Is it the same problem as this one in LT?
http://forums.autodesk.com/t5/AutoCAD-LT/AutoCAD-LT-2014-Flickering-Issue/m-p/3875348#M113188 

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No, that looks like a different problem. Compare the video to my animated GIF.

Thanks.

[Murph_Map]

I don't see any issue R.K. , what've you been smoking? 🙂 

May be a keyboard or mouse issue, don't have your coffee cup sitting on the mouse tail do you?

[john.mckenzie]

Yes I seem to remember one of our users with a similar problem. I think it was a graphics driver issue. I am not in the office at the moment. I will ask around tomorrow. We use the quadro 2000 also and it was happening in 2013. I will sniff around tomorrow. In the meantime, you might want to see if you can get a driver update or rollback if you recently updated.

[Joe-Bouza]

II've had it . 12 & 13

[john.mckenzie]

Seems that all I can dig up is that it was a driver issue. The person cannot remember how he solved it.

We are actually using the 2000m card in our laptops and driver version 8.17.12.9635. This works fine.

I would consider changing drivers if I were you as you can always go back if it doesn't help.

Keep an eye on it and see if it does it more under stress/load (multiple files open) or heavy calculation load regen load etc.

[rkmcswain]

I suppose it could be a driver issue, but it certainly does happen when AutoCAD is "doing something", most notably when palettes are opened or closed.  In other words, it will start doing this "flashing" when the command is initiated to display or hide a palette, continue the "flashing" for a couple of seconds, then the moment it quits, the palette appears (or hides).

Thankfully, it's just a graphic annoyance - it doesn't hurt anything.