Main Menu flickers on Unreal Engine

anonymous_user_38bbe838 · August 10, 2020, 7:11pm

My Main Menu is behaving very weirdly since yesterday. It flickers as soon as I open the menu. Any idea what I could do?

anonymous_user_50949673 · August 10, 2020, 7:54pm

Is it happening only in UE4? Or elsewhere as well. Like chrome, youtube…?

anonymous_user_38bbe838 · August 10, 2020, 8:23pm

Only UE4! Nowhere else.

anonymous_user_38bbe838 · August 11, 2020, 7:25am

Oops! Turns out the problem’s back again after restarting the editor. This time changing the scale settings didn’t work out.

anonymous_user_38bbe838 · August 11, 2020, 7:21am

Yes that was the problem! However I’m unsure how this occurred for the first time after using Unreal for almost an year now. I had to change the Scaling mode from Full Panel to Preserve Aspect Ratio for this to work. Can you post this comment as an answer so I can accept it as an answer?

Marcis · August 11, 2020, 4:55am

Do you use scaling? Usually that’s the cause of the problem.

Marcis · August 11, 2020, 7:26am

Did you play with these settings?

Jarrod.Linton · August 19, 2020, 6:08am

Yes I have the same problem … has anyone solved this?

anonymous_user_38bbe838 · August 19, 2020, 6:59pm

I didn’t change these settings. However I tried all combinations here after seeing your comment.
No luck.

anonymous_user_38bbe838 · August 19, 2020, 7:01pm

@Jarrod.Linton Well luckily for me, I had just started with a project and I didn’t make much progress when this started happening. So all I did was create a new project and I migrated my blueprints/assets there. This only happened in that particular project.
But still looking for the root cause of the issue.

Tensa_Zangetsu · August 21, 2020, 11:15am

Possible workaround for you

Go to Editor Preferences → General → Appearence → User Interface
Uncheck (if not already) “Enable Window Animations”

That worked for me.

UE 4.25.3 / i5 7400 / GTX 1050TI - Nvidia 452.06 (game ready driver)

Conferno · October 23, 2020, 8:23pm

thanks, this helps me on macOS big sur.

pieterdb · November 15, 2020, 3:06pm

Disabling high DPI support fixed it on my device.

anonymous_user_0bde081e · November 15, 2020, 3:12pm

Hello,

I had the flickering drop-down menus problem (UE 4.25.4 - 4.26.0) running on Windows 7, spreading to a whole screen sometimes. The solution which works for me: Windows Control Panel > All Control Panel Items > System > Advanced system settings > Advanced > Performance > UNCHECK “Enable desktop composition” et voila!
Then you can even enable the windows animation in UE4 Editor Preferences and it will work.

I hope that it will help you too!

Edanna · November 18, 2020, 4:43pm

Thank you very much. It fixes my problem also.

REIMYSS · November 27, 2020, 4:09am

This fixed it for me. Thank you!!! I actually enabled it the night before looking for another setting.

searcher354 · February 4, 2021, 4:18pm

Sorted…must have ticked it and never noticed…cheers!

Hynade · February 23, 2021, 6:54pm

This fixed it, thanks

Junkers69 · April 3, 2021, 7:50am

Hey there, that is the exact problem I am having!!! Would love to get some help on this asap!!

Junkers69 · April 1, 2021, 11:56pm

I have that exact issue!! Would love some help!!!