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P: ACR 18.3 is unusable unless you disable GPU acceleration,

Forum|Forum|14 days ago
April 17, 2026
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I have never had an issue with ACR before.18.3 freezing saying not responding saving files took twenty minutes instead of seconds everything was super laging, when I disabled the GPU acceleration it improved I see on the other pages I am not alone I'm using the most up to date windows, Nvidia drivers ETC: I have a 7950x, 5090, 64GB and NVME drives. Please fix as soon as possible or at least give a link to the previous version which I had no issues with.

Solution:

Update following the instructions in this link:

juloma1

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Tengo el mismo problema con la última actualización de Camera Raw. Tengo la misma versión de photoshop, la última en mis dos oredenadores mac. En el Mac Studio con la última versión de Camera Raw todo va muy lento y el en McBookPro con la versión inmediatamente anterior funciona perfectamente. He intentado revertir a la versión anterior como comentáis en el foro pero no instala la versión anterior. Sigue la misma versión. Pido por favor una solución a este gran problema. Una actualización que solucione este problema o una manera eficaz de volver a la versión anterior de Camera Raw.

iCheshireCat

Participant

Same problem on my side with 18.3. I have made a lot of debuging and fixing, but in the end I had to disable GPU acceleration of my RTX 4070 TI.

ACR is freezing, lagging and making me crazy. Adobe, pls fix it ASAP. It is impossible to work properly!

iCheshireCat

Participant

Reinstalled 18.3 from exe and it fixed all the issues.

Ged_Traynor

Community Expert

@Bill Morse there’s an updated 18.3 version of ACR in the below thread, try installing that version

Scroll down to the reply from Rikk Flohr_Photography for the download link

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Bill Morse

Participant

Thanks!!

Peru Bob

Community Expert

See here:

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Bill Morse

Participant

This is not responsive. This is ten years old and somewhat before the capability to enhance the image.

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Bill Morse

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meant to add: macOS 15.7.2 (24G325) Apple M1 Max MacBookPro18,2

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Bill Morse

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PS 27.5.0; Mac Pro M1, 64gb ram 300 GB free on HD;

Happens on all files (Sony ARW from A7Riii)

This is happening since latest update.

Imaginative_Ocean0199

Participant

This is the worst. I don't know why they aren't fixing it. Shouldn't they at least roll back the update? I can't get any work done after the forced update.

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march411

Known Participant

It is difficult to understand how something so bad could be rolled out to paying subscribers.

Imaginative_Ocean0199

Participant

I belatedly found the patch version below. If it doesn't work even after trying this, I'll be really angry.

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DV23

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Same for de macos version. Camera Raw 18.3 is incredibly slow. Just clicking in the Remove (B) tab takes ages. Removing dust and scratches is impossible now. I reverted to an older version (https://adobe-camera-raw.en.uptodown.com/mac/versions) instantly solved the problem. It is fast again.

Rikk Flohr_Photography

Did you follow the instructions in the highlighted post?

Rikk Flohr: Adobe Photography Org

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DV23

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Nope, i couldn’t. If i click the link with the DMG a new tab opens and within half a second it closes. No download starting here. Copy and pasting the link in a new window does the same, instantly closes and no download is starting.

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Alin Purcaroiu

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Takes ages to apply new settings to a raw file. And disables my rtx gpu. Never again updating to new versions.