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P: CR 18.3 is slow until you install the update (see Highlighted Post)

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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:

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Adrian Rios Pro

Participant

Solución: copien el enlace de descarga de la versión 14 que está en la pagina oficial:

https://helpx.adobe.com/es/camera-raw/kb/camera-raw-plug-in-installer.html

El enlace es este:

https://download.adobe.com/pub/adobe/photoshop/cameraraw/win/14.x/AdobeCameraRaw_x64_14_5.exe

y remplacen el numero 14.x por 18.x y al final 14_5 por 18_2 o la version 18 que prefieran y les quedara algo asi y oficial:

https://download.adobe.com/pub/adobe/photoshop/cameraraw/win/18.x/AdobeCameraRaw_x64_18_2.exe

Saludos.

Rikk Flohr_Photography

The Camera Raw team has made an updated version of the Camera Raw plugin available to address this issue.
The version in the Creative Cloud Desktop app will be the version you already have.

To access the new version, please go to this link:

for Mac
http://download.adobe.com/pub/adobe/photoshop/cameraraw/mac/18.x/CameraRaw_18_3.dmg
or for Win 64
http://download.adobe.com/pub/adobe/photoshop/cameraraw/win/18.x/AdobeCameraRaw_x64_18_3.exe
or for Win ARM
http://download.adobe.com/pub/adobe/photoshop/cameraraw/win/18.x/AdobeCameraRaw_arm64_18_3.exe

Verify the installed build changes to 18.3x2529

Thank you for your patience.

Rikk Flohr: Adobe Photography Org

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march411

Known Participant

Any clue as to what they did to resolve the issue and it was fully tested in a day?

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waldemarker

Inspiring

replaced Bridge with 18.2, but still many issues (settings need seconds to be applied, no keyboard control, settings change only after mouse-click, no undo, preview not working). Would need to downgrade also camera Raw, not only Bridge. How to do that? There is no older version to download on adobe website.

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march411

Known Participant

Well I can’t fix 18.3 but I can help with a link to prior version from an Adobe affiliate.

Adobe RAW downloadable versions

Once you have it locally on your computer just run the executable file and it will overwrite 18.3. Restart you computer once the installation is complete.

Ged_Traynor

Community Expert

@ImZeOne I just downloaded a sample .raf file, and it opened in ACR version 18.3 without issue, have you tried resetting the ACR preferences

ImZeOne

Participating Frequently

Thanks Ged,
I had already tried all of that before posting here — it’s often possible to find a solution without bothering the community. I reinstalled Photoshop and ACR and reset the preferences, but without success.

My .raf files open without any issue in Photoshop after going through ACR, but they no longer open if I’ve run Super Resolution beforehand, even though it appears to process the image correctly.

Ged_Traynor

Community Expert

@ImZeOne can you share one on the .raf files to test, I tried applying super resolution in ACR, and it opened fine in Photoshop afterwards

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waldemarker

Inspiring

how to downgrade to camera raw 18.2? 18.3 is slow and full og bugs!

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march411

Known Participant

Just download 18.1.1 and run it locally, it will overwrite 18.3 and resolve your issues. I had to do it on my Windows system on 4.18.26 because the new version consistently threw errors and locked my machine. Up and Down has all the older versions.

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uminnoun97924091

Participating Frequently

how do you download previous versions?

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march411

Known Participant

Use this Adobe affiliate and the new version: Adobe RAW downloadable versions

Once you have it locally on your computer just run the executable file and it will overwrite 18.3. Restart you computer once the installation is complete.