[Issue] Blinking pop ups, drop down menus and other graphic bugs [with videos]
What desktop/window manager are you using?
I'm pretty certain he's using Unity.
Video wasn’t loading for me, so just making sure :)
You are right MrSchism, it´s Unity, I just included this info on my specs on gist.
I wasn't 100% certain. It looked like he was using Unity, but I've seen some docks that look/act like Unity, so I was just going with odds.
Have you modified any window manager settings from the defaults?
No, as a matter of fact I had to format and reinstall the O.S. (so I can tell you I didn´t change anything) and the problem persists, it was working very nice before, but after the updates the problem appeared.
I checked the latest update today and nothing changed.
Here are some info I just found on System Information (I don´t know if it will help anyway):
Recent Failure Reports:
Sat Feb 9 02:48:51 2013 GMT: file ''/tmp/dumps/assert_20130209004843_1.dmp'', upload yes: ''CrashID=bp-c9857512-2130-4ee3-b48b-aa1bb2130208''
Here is a screenshot I just took, the window is unreadable (When I move the mouse cursor the window blinks and I can see its content very quickly, but it´s very difficult so see the content):
If you need any more info just tell me.
I am unable to repro any problems, so I'm not sure what's going on for you. It's possible it's something with your video driver and that's why I'm not seeing it, as I'm running on NVIDIA. We'll have to see if we can find a repro.
Well, as I am using an AMD driver, I wouldn´t be surprised if the problem was with it (unfortunately). Strange how it worked perfectly before and now it has these issues. Is there any possibility that this new 13.1 Catalyst Legacy driver, somehow, is messing things up? But, if I don´t use it I can´t play Team Fortress 2 and Sword & Sworcery has messed up graphics. If you need any more "tech stuff", just tell me how to get it and I post here.
It's possible the problem is in the Catalyst driver. It's also possible it's some new bug in Steam that we introduced. We really can only pin it down by finding a repro here at Valve, so a resolution here is going to be delayed waiting on that.
Well, after testing using Unity 2D I could see this problem is gone, so it must be something with Unity 3D.
Now that I have a NVidia GTX 650 everything is working normally, no blinking pop ups or menus and no graphic bugs!
Nothing extracted yet.
I had seen these bugs like one or two updates before, but only now I could make some videos where I could reproduce them properly. I think the last update made them a little bit worse, but it´s a random thing.
I used the software Kazam Screencaster to record them and, on the first video, Steam starts but after some seconds it just closes (as this is the first time I used this program to record Steam, I can´t say if this was the cause of the crash).
On the other videos it´s visible the problems with friends list, drop down menus and pop ups. They are self explanatory:
01: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gUqqdQXEGtg
02: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bUEold8tObQ
03: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LlfX_TwFrPA
04: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yNhlaXuUkTg
Here are my specs: https://gist.github.com/Lord-Avallon/4521727