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How To Fix All Black, Blank, Blurry, Flickering Screen Problems Error in VS Code
Feb 28, 2026
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Uh hello guys. In this video, I'll show
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you how to fix all the screen problems
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in VS Code. If your VS Code screen
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becomes black, blank, blurry or it
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basically flickers. So in this video, I
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will show you all the potential fixes
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how to fix that problem. So first of
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all, you need to close your VS code and
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directly open the terminal from here.
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And here you first of all need to
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disable the graphical processing unit
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like your GPU. If your VS code is is
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being used by GPU, the command that you
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need to write is code d- disable dash
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GPU. So go to the terminal, simply write
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this command. Uh just wait, let me zoom
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in so that I can clearly show you what
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command that you want to write it.
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So you just need to write this command
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code d- disable-gu.
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So this will actually disable GPU for a
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temporary amount of time and just press
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enter. After you press enter, your
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Visual Studio Code will directly open
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without GPU. And now it will potentially
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it will fix that problem for you. And if
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you want to, if this solves your
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problem, then you can uh permanently
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disable the Visual Studio Code inside
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your graphical processing unit. So
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whatever is your graphics card, you
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basically
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just search here graphics settings
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in the start menu. So inside the
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graphics settings menu, you just need to
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select your app if the app is added. So
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in my case, as you see, I have added
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this visual studio code inside my GPU.
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So from here, you can remove that app or
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simply remove this. As you can see, it's
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using my GPU. So this can cause the
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screen to flicker, become black. So
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potentially you can turn this off. This
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is the first fix. Now if this doesn't
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solve your problem, then we have a
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second solution for you. You need to
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first of all go to C drive and inside
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the users directory inside your whatever
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is your username and inside this there's
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this app data folder. You need to go to
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this folder and inside this we have this
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roaming folder and inside this you will
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have this code folder. This is actually
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visual studio code folder. Inside this
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there will be this folder which is GPU
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catch. The GPU catch is actually the
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folder where all the files are present
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related to your GPU. So first of all
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just delete this folder. So once you
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delete this folder and then restart your
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VS code. So this can also
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uh just prevent this black screen
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flickering blank screen all these screen
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issues in VS code. And now coming to the
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blurry screen. If your VS code screen
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becomes blurry then there is this you
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can go to view
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and go to appearance and inside the
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appearance you can reset the zoom level
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by toggling this. Simply toggle this and
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this will reset your zoom level.
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Whatever is your zoom level, it will
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make it to default. Just go to view
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appearance and reset zoom. After that,
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you also have the if you have the screen
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flickering. Again, I showed you the
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command here. You need to this will
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prevent most of the time. This will
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solve the problem for you.
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And uh then if your terminal is not
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visible in that case you can go to view
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again view appearance
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and this reset layout. This will be a
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option right here. You need to toggle
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this option reset layout.
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Yeah. So
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panel position active. So just stick to
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these default options. Just pause the
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video and stick to the default option.
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And uh after that, these are some of the
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fixes guys. If this fixes fix your
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problem, then it's well and good. If
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doesn't fix your problem, then you need
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to reinstall your VS Code. That will
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potentially 99% of the time it will fix
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the problem for you. So wherever your
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visual studio code is installed, you
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just need to uninstall and install a
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fresh copy.
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So potentially you just need to run the
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uninstall type and completely remove
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Visual Studio and reinstall it. This
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will potentially will solve the problem.
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So definitely tell me in the comment
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section which will which solution solve
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your problem and also like the video.