I'm working from home doing IC layout, so there's a lot of random, complex graphics on my monitors at any given time. I have also heavily edited my display.drf file to give me all the colors I like. I'm finding that I'll do something innocent like bring up a form that needs filling out or initiate a copy command when all of a sudden my layout, or maybe various layers in it, will start flashing between colors. The thing is that the update rate of the flashing is hellishly slow - it's like a curtain slowly and repeatedly lowering as it cycles through the colors and everything slows to a crawl while I wait for the command take effect or the form to become responsive. It's killing my productivity. I have a high bandwidth connection so I really don't think that's the issue. The other thing is that I'll go through periods of up to say 20 minutes where this isn't an issue and then all of a sudden it starts up. Quitting virtuoso or disconnecting from work and reconnecting kind of helps, but it's very spotty. Any idea what's happening here? In case it matters, I'm using nx by NoMachine to connect into work. I did try reaching out to NoMachine support, but as expected they're pointing the finger at Cadence.
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