UE 5.6 Niagara Viewport Flickering

Summary

In UE 5.6, whenever I use the Niagara timeline manually to view my particle frame by frame it flickers brightly in the viewport compared to it being smooth like in my UE 5.5 project.

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Creative

What Type of Bug are you experiencing?

Live Edit

Steps to Reproduce

Drag the timeline playback back and forth

Expected Result

No flashing bright lights on each new frame

Observed Result

The particle flickers and displays brightly at the start of each frame when scraping the timeline.

Platform(s)

Windows 11

Video

Additional Notes

I’m not sure if it’s a project setting or a bug itself considering I have two different UE versions and each project has different viewport behaviours.