camera raw 18.5 randomly freezes

Unfortunately you haven't given us more detailed informations about the issue and any information about your system. Therefore, all proposed solutions are a look into the crystal ball.

Please decribe your issure more detailed.

• What you’re trying to do before Camera Raw crashes/freezes?
• Describe the steps you’re doing so we can try to reproduce. Or are these different steps each time?
• Which error message do you get? Please post the message word-by-word.

In a first step try to resetting your ACR preferences by doing the following steps:

• Hold down the Command key and select Photoshop > Preferences > Camera Raw (MacOS) or hold down the Ctrl key and select Edit > Preferences > Camera Raw (Windows).
• Click Yes in the dialog that asks "Delete the Camera Raw Preferences?

If this doesn't check if your system is up-to-date? Do you have installed all recent updates and patches for the operating system and the device drivers, especially the graphic driver. If you have a NVidia graphic card installed, make sure that you are using the recent Studio version of the driver, not the Game Ready version.

Please provide a copy of your 'System Info'. This can be get from the Photoshop menu item Help > System Info. There's a copy button in the System Info dialog. Press this button and paste the info into your next forum post.