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February 10, 2026
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After Effects super unstable recently, after updating to 2026?

  • February 10, 2026
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I’m struggling to use After Effects after the new update, it seems super unstable compared to before. I have constant crashed and overall it’s insanely slow now. It will often crash and I am unable to launch the app back up again, even after killing every task related to AfterFX and Adobe, the only way to launch is to restart my PC…

I have reinstalled AE, reinstalled my GPU drivers (using DDU for clean install), cleared cache and everything I can think of…

There seems to be a very frequent error with my AE Cache not working correctly, as you can see in the log file… any ideas?

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    nishu_kush
    Community Manager
    nishu_kushCommunity Manager
    Community Manager
    February 12, 2026

    Hi there,

     

    Really sorry to hear about the crash. Looks like there are a bunch of third-party plug-ins installed. For testing, can you try removing them temporarily and see if that helps? Here’s how:

    Go to the following location and remove (or move to a different location to keep a backup) all the files and folders except dummy.txt and try to launch After Effects.

    Windows - C:\Program Files\Adobe\Common\Plug-ins\7.0\MediaCore

    If it fixes the issue, check for the plug-in updates. Let me know how it goes.

     

    Thanks,

     

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