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September 23, 2025

After effects keeps freezing and crashing

  • September 23, 2025
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Hello everyone,

 

Since last week Thursday I have been having issues with After effects.

After using after effects for a few minutes the preview screen freezes. Once that happens if I try to continue editing after effects will freeze. When trying to close after effects it won't work. Even closing it with task manager doesn't work. It only closes if I completely restart my laptop. The past few days I did more testing. trying to edit and restart after effects everytime it wanted to freeze and crash. The more I work in the project and add more things the faster it will eventually freeze. Doing simple things like masking a picture or adding beat markers also could make this freeze happen. 

 

These past days new versions of after effects came out. sadly when updating these versions didn't fix the problem and today with the new update 25.5 it still didn't fix. 

 

I already tried a few things:

Reseting prefrences, Starting up in safe mode (same issues occured), turning off all my plugins (same issues occured), clearing cache and stuff, turning off, putting the project on mercury software only, disable multi frame rendering, updating my driver to the newest version.

 

after nothing worked I contacted adobe support and did a 2 hour remote access session. Here we checked if there was a problem with the plugins, downgraded my after effects and checked if I had administrator access on my laptop. Still no solution was found.

 

Now I was wondering if anyone else have these issues. Or have a possible solution!

 

Here is some more information about my device:

Platform: Windows 11

Driver: nvidia geforce RTX 5060

Processor: AMD Ryzen 9HX

I have: 32GB intern capacity 

 

See picture above, This happens when its freezes and I try playing a preview of my project. Screen freezes on de last frame before after effects freezes.

 

I hope adobe finds a solution fast. Because I want to work on my projects again. 

3 replies

Participant
October 2, 2025

Ive been experiencing similar issues since last week as well (NEW MacStudio M3 Ultra 96gb) Weird trick to work around when it starts acting weird...right click the footage source in the project and RELOAD FOOTAGE. This has helped my situation significatly.

Participant
October 2, 2025

Same here.

Participant
September 26, 2025

Hi i have the same problem.

Windows 11, rtx 5060.

 

I tried the same thing as you. I also tried via VM. I think the problem is with the graphics card (RTX5060), in fact if you install version 24.1 you shouldn't have any problems. I'm also trying to solve the problem via Adobe, but we haven't found a solution yet other than using version 24.1 (January 2024). If you find a solution, please let me know.

Participant
February 16, 2026

Hey, how did you get to download 24.1? I can’t seem to download anything older than 25.0

I am also facing the same issue and I can’t do any work at all

nishu_kush
Community Manager
Community Manager
February 16, 2026

After Effects 24.x or later is no longer available for download. Only the latest and one major version behind the latest version can be installed.

Could you share more details on your issue? Is there a pattern that you’ve noticed? Also, what are your system specifications?

Let us know.

 

Thanks,

Nishu