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Portalle_Designer
April 15, 2021
Question

Desktop app blank white screen/crash

  • April 15, 2021
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Hello, after today’s update, there is a problem. After starting the figma, after about 1-2 minutes of operation, the entire application screen simply turns white. What could be the problem?

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97 replies

Blacknoir
May 21, 2021

What graphic card do you have? There is a suspicion that they are simply no longer support legacy video cards due to lack of hardware compatibility.

For example, I have an AMD Radeon HD6950 2GB card and as I understand it is already 10 years old. And its driver stopped updating in 2015.

Rubem_Pechansky
Active Member
May 21, 2021

Same thing with the Windows app here. The screen is blank at first and the most recently open tabs are forgotten. Already cleared everything in %APPDATA%\Figma, doesn’t work. Please fix ASAP, thanks!

tae_kim
May 25, 2021

[WHITE SCREEN: RESOLVED] Finally, I have figured it out; however, you may not be too thrilled about it. I’m using a Lenovo Thinkpad X1 Extreme with 16gb RAM and it wasn’t enough. I ran my Task Manager to check what was being throttled and saw that my RAM was clocking really high before Figma turned white. So, I bought an extra 16gb RAM (total 32gb RAM) and now Figma runs with no issues at all. I checked the Task Manager again and it shows that while Figma is running, RAM is clocking at close to 20gb.

Bottomline: If you “only” have 16gb of RAM, it’s not enough.

Rubem_Pechansky
Active Member
May 26, 2021

@tae_kim, I’m glad you resolved the issue, although I suspect most people won’t buy the extra RAM… (BTW, it would be interesting to know whether users who do have 32 GB are experiencing this problem too.) Windows reports around 560 MB or 7% usage for Figma on my machine. I’ll try switching off Chrome (biggest memory hog here) and test it again.

Nevertheless, this problem was very likely introduced in the latest version (98.10) so it’s fixable. My Figma colleague here didn’t upgrade so he doesn’t have the issue. We both have 32 GB machines.

I still say this is a bug, I hope the good fellows at Figma come with a solution soon. Any response from them would be very nice at this point.

Cheers,

Oleksandr_Lykhohrai
May 26, 2021

Same problem during the last month. White screen after 1-2 mins of using. Keep using Figma becomes a problem…
Screenshot from a console:

Blacknoir
May 27, 2021

i’m not agree, the problem obviously with something else

Blacknoir
May 27, 2021

Ok guys, today i’ve get the last windows update and then load last figma version, so i can say that my issue have solved and figma running stable!

So just put your PC to update and reinstall Figma!

poiru
Figmate
Figmate
May 27, 2021
Lee_Yeonha
May 28, 2021

rubem, i just upgraded my ram to 32gb and now it’s working fine~ thanks @tae_kim for your insight! our project was on hold and we couldn’t wait for figma to fix this issue so i’m glad there is a quick fix.

Flavio_Magalhaes
May 28, 2021

My team has had a problem after the update as well. There were changes to our project that were not saved and progress was lost. Is there any way around it, I couldn’t find the changes on the version history either.