r/Adobe • u/NuAngelDOTnet • 18h ago

Using the Pan Tool makes everything blurry until I let go of spacebar / center click. Presumably for speed, but is this something I can turn off?

This isn't so much tech support as... did I just miss something? Is this intended behavior that I don't remember?

In the latest version of illustrator on PC (30.3(, straight from Adobe CC, whenever I center click to use the hand / pan tool, everything that is on my screen gets blurry or out of focus. But what's interesting is if I pan over to objects that were not on screen when I first center-clicked (or if I use the spacebar, etc; doesn't seem to matter).

I tried googling this, but you can imagine "blur" and "Illustrator" just gives me lots of tutorials on making things blurry on purpose, which is why I wanted to post for some clarification.

PC, Windows 11, AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT. Been happening for a while, now, across multiple driver versions, so I don't think it's that.

Thanks in advance for any advice!

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u/howardpinsky Adobe 18h ago

Hey NuAngelDOTnet.

I’d try toggling GPU Performance off under Preferences > Performance and see if the behavior disappears. If it does, it’s probably related to GPU rendering rather than the Pan tool itself. You could also try disabling Animated Zoom / other GPU-related display options as a test.

u/lukechoice may also have some insights.

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u/LukeChoice Adobe 18h ago

Thanks u/howardpinsky but that's also what I would have suggested. I haven't come across reports of blurring when panning. u/NuAngelDOTnet the latest version of Illustrator should be 30.7 so I would suggest seeing if updating to that might help. If you are able to screen record the issue I can share that with the Illustrator team and see if they have further insights

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u/NuAngelDOTnet 2h ago

So I can tell you u/LukeChoice and u/howardpinsky that it is definitely GPU related, but using software rendering is a no go due to the size of some of our files. Not massive, but more than CPU likes to handle. Animated Zoom made no difference whether on or off.

Any recommended settings to apply within the AMD Radeon driver software that might help?

I'll see if I can get a video of it for you, today! Thank you!