after Win10 April Update - flux sometimes swich on/off for seconds

malikconn

@burkben1 said in after Win10 April Update - flux sometimes swich on/off for seconds:

Hello,
After trying to remove the usb mouse it does indeed stop f.lux, until a few seconds or a click on the screen.
But I have small occasional freezes without removing anything, I was not able to replicate them but they seem to be more frequent when I navigate in the computer settings through notification panel on the dock (might be cyclic and because I go there much, could look like it's linked.)

I always have the bluetooth on and a second monitor connected.
I'm using a surface book with intel processor and nvidia graphic card.
Hope it can help !
I'll update if I see anything else.

This is basically been my exact experience as well. I've noticed that the glitch tends to happen when I initiate a new computer process like opening the computer panel or switching between/opening new apps and less when I'm just staying in Word for extended periods of time. Though this is just a tendency and it sometimes happens regardless (I wonder if notifications or other background processes have to do with it?).

Lyon-St-Clair

Seems working after uninstall/reboot/reinstall classic windows version.

Lyon-St-Clair

Err nope, finally it disabling randomly during seconds...

herf

@Lyon-St-Clair left notes at top - Windows seems to have a bug that resets color anytime a device is added

malikconn

Any update to this? I'm really missing the reliability of flux!

herf

I am hoping for a fix from Microsoft, but we could do a patch that adjusts the Windows color profile to avoid the problem, if that doesn't land very soon. This code is very well tested on the Mac, but Windows has a larger variety of color profiles (so this is why I am not rushing to do this).

How many times per hour are you having a problem? We could also temporarily turn back on a system that "fixes" adjusted profiles every second, like v3 did.

Typecast

@herf For me it occurs every time another Bluetooth device connects or disconnect. It does with my Airpods, Surface Dial, Logitech MX Ergo etc.

malikconn

Per hour? Hard to say, and it varies, but when its bad it can be as often as every 5 minutes. I would say the average is around 5 times an hour - regardless if I'm attempting to connect a device or not. Whenever it happens I just open and close the notifications panel and it fixes itself - its just annoying and seriously inconvenient lol.

Majr_

@herf That might help a bit, but I don't think it will solve the issue. I get this issue just using a custom colour profile, without flux. But instead of it just disabling for awhile until you change windows, you get rapid flickering between the colour profile turning off and on, which is probably what you'll end up with if you make flux more aggressively try to set its colour profile.

It also seems to be an issue with the Intel drivers, as it doesn't happen when using the generic drivers that come with Windows (although I also wasn't able to apply my colour profile while using that, but at least flux worked).

herf

We found a way to check that our profile is installed efficiently, so the new beta is verifying it once per second.

To download, either join the beta (in "about") or download here:
https://justgetflux.com/flux-setup4.exe

In the future, we might adjust the system ICM/WCS file as we do on the Mac, but this would take a longer beta period to get right, so we are putting this one up to reduce the impact.