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Good day, I recently upgraded to blender 2.9 and my lookdev mode (material preview mode) is not rendering at all. I can see how my materials look in render view mode but in lookdev my materials just appear grey like in the picture I attached. This is my lookDev view (material preview)

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Here is my render view perfectly working

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I did some research and found that I am not the only one facing the issue. I even upgraded my blender version (it was suggested as a possible solution) but that didn't solve the problem. I am using an HP laptop. May anyone please help me with my predicament. Thanks in advance

Christopher Bennett
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  • This looks similar to a relatively common issue users began having around February or so where an update to the Adrenalin Drivers for AMD GPU's caused this behavior in blender 2.8 and above . The solution is generally to roll back your drivers to an older version, but before doing that, try enabling "High Quality Normals" under Render Properties > Performance first, and see if that fixes it. – Christopher Bennett Jun 18 '21 at 19:53
  • Hello and welcome. Rather than take photos of your monitor post actual screenshots instead. See How to take a screenshot So we don't have to guess if we are looking at a physical issues like reflections or smudges, a hardware issue such as a malfunctioning display, a software level bug or driver, or an or actual artifact or issue with the model itself. – Duarte Farrajota Ramos Jun 18 '21 at 20:59
  • Hi, I am using blender 2.93 and so I don't have the option to enable "High Quality Normals". Is it perhaps hidden in another tab. Thanks for the information on taking screenshot instead of photos. I apologise for my ignorance, I'm new here and still learning the ropes. – Divine Iwu Jun 18 '21 at 21:21
  • My apologies, I didn't look closely enough at the screenshots to see you're using Cycles - "High Quality Normals" is only available with the EEVEE render engine (Which LookDev uses a version of). This is why you can't find the option. Switch to eevee, change it (so you can see in lookdev) and then switch back to Cycles. - https://ibb.co/VqdMvY2 – Christopher Bennett Jun 18 '21 at 23:06
  • Thank you so much. That actually helped. I can now view my materials in lookDev. Thanks a lot again. This issue really got me thinking. – Divine Iwu Jun 19 '21 at 07:09

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