P: Liquify Tool Crashes with Assertion Failed! error on all Windows systems

Should be in Desktop 22.1

*Sympa Thanks for the feedback.  I did a test and this is still occurring in the initial release of CC 2021.  You did mention November though, not October.  So is a fix planned for the 2nd release of CC 2201 in version 22.0.1?

*DaveAitch 
Is your computer giving the exact same Assertion Failed! error message that I posted?  If not then it may be a different issue.  In all the testing I have done on many different systems, the Assertion Failed! message happens from 450-500 images on every Windows system. I tested 7 or 8 systems and all did exactly the same thing.

If your system is doing something different than the Assertion Failed! error then it may be best to create a new post with better details regarding the error you are getting.  Your reply was pretty vague and didn't provide much detail about the actual error you are having.

Never mind 400 or so, Liquify is causing Photoshop cc 2020 to crash almost every time it is opened. I can't tell immediately tell you the exact version as I have just uninstalled everything Adobe associated and plan to reload, but it is the latest. I'm running Windows 10, recently loaded. Additionally, when opening Cloud there is often a message "taking long time to load, relaunch or restart computer", or similar wording. Bridge was giving a problem (with thumbnails being replaced by icons after the file was opened) but this appears to have righted itself. 

Hi there, Thank you for filing this bug. We can reproduce it and we are a targeting a fix for the November release. In the meantime to get you back to a working state, a workaround is to limit the number of operations you are performing to under 400.

Please continue to report great bugs like this one to use in the future. Thanks so much. Really appreciate cleanly written reports like this one with repro steps. 

Thanks for the information, damon_bell, we have reproduced the problem in-house and are looking into it.

Thanks. This is helpful. Let me see if we can reproduce it.

@JeffreyTranberry

Running the liquify tool itself 475-500 times within a given Photoshop session causes it.  That is only counting the Liquify steps and not counting anything in between the liquify steps.  I have some scripts that use it as part of the scripts.

For troubleshooting, the easiest way to reproduce it is with a 1 step action and batching the action on a folder of more than 500 images.  Here is a link to a video I made showing the issue happen.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nyl6YfpHOBw
 

@JeffreyTranberry 

Thanks for the reply.

It gives the message from the screenshot. When clicking abort or retry it just gets stuck. I have to use Task Manager to close Photoshop.  So I don't think it generates a crash report.

Between myself and a few other users I know, we have tested 7 or 8 PCs and all of them do the same thing.

Also for my 2017 iMac, the same test would freeze then entire computer at 250-300 images and require the system to be shut down.  Force quit wouldn't even shut it down.  I have to push the power off button to shut it down on my Mac. For the Mac, there was no error at all.  Just the computer freezing.  An interesting thing is that with the Mac, turning off the Auto Show Home screen setting in the preferences prevents it from happening.  I tried that on Windows but it didn't help.  I only have 1 Mac to test.  I had a couple of people I know run the same test and their Macs did not freeze. 

On Windows it appears to be a universal issues to all systems.  On Mac, the issue seems different and only affecting some systems.

I'm pretty sure that you can recreate the issue on a Windows system by setting up a 1 step action to run Liquify.  Then just batch process the action with more than 500 images.  For the action, just doing something simple like add +25 on the smile in Liquify should be all that is needed to recreate it.

Hope this info helps.  If you need any more information or need me to do any further testing then let me know.  This issue is really important for me so I can do whatever testing you need me to do.

Also, when you say used 475-500 times, do you mean invocations of the Liquify dialog? or number of actions/brush strokes within the filter?