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Radiant_Spirit5C36
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August 8, 2025

Composition freezing

  • August 8, 2025
  • 7 replies
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I have brought a new laptop, new MSI Stealth A16 - 5090 RTX, AMD Ryzen 9hx. For some reason when using after effects for just a minuet, the compositon will free, cant zoom, nothing updates. but the app contiunes working, I can add layers, add effects, delete, import.. but the compsiton freezes and I can see the zoom going up and down but nothing in the viewport changes, add new solid, nothing changes in the viewport. 

 

After effects 2025 25.3.2

Windows

 

I have tried all the recommendations:

Clearing cache

ram allocation 

disable gpu acceleration

updating drivers

video rending and effects 

multiframe rendering off

 

Its a brand new laptop, any ideas?

 

    7 replies

    harlee.7
    harlee.7
    Participant
    January 31, 2026

    I have been having the same issue. My professors have no clue what is happening and some of them have been in the industry for a decade or more. One of my classmates is starting to have the same issue as well. I know that people have suggested downgrading to NVIDIA Driver to v.573.22 but I don’t even know how to do that and that person said they were using After Effects 2005.3.2 so I feel like it's irrelevant.

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    Seapaep
    Participant
    September 25, 2025

    I think I have the same issue as well.

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    defaultr75q7yisuiiy
    Participant
    September 24, 2025

    exact same problem here. 

     

    Everything was fine until about a month ago and now the composition panel freezes after a few minutes of use. It can be a new project or an old one that worked before. Ive reinstalled AE, Ive cleared prefs, cache, gpu acceleration, Ive tried multiframe rendering off, I've updated drivers. Its basically unuseable.

     

    laptop:

     

    AMD 9955HX

    5070ti

    64gb RAM

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    joe_5558
    Participant
    August 31, 2025

    No still a problem.

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    razi_6859
    Participant
    August 27, 2025

    Did you find a solotiun?

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    Radiant_Spirit5C36Author
    Participant
    August 14, 2025

    No I also have tried that, I went back to an old driver and it still happens.

    nishu_kush
    Community Manager
    nishu_kushCommunity Manager
    Community Manager
    August 8, 2025

    Hi Radiant_Spirit,

     

    Sorry to hear about your issue. What version of the GPU driver are you using? If it's the latest version, can you try installing an older version and see if that brings any change? One of the users who was having the same issue downgraded to version 573.22 and it worked for them. Here's the link to that thread: https://adobe.ly/4m85ZRp

    Let me know how it goes.


    Thanks,
    Nishu

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