Has the Preview issue in After Effects 2026 on Windows been fixed in a recent update?

Question

Did Adobe finally fix the Preview issue in AE 2026?Maybe I'm imagining things, but has anyone else noticed this?Until last week, Preview in the latest version of After Effects 2026 was almost unusable for me on Windows. I tried pretty much every workaround I could find here and on other forums, but nothing really fixed it. I was actually getting ready to roll back to an older version because it was becoming a daily headache.Then this week... it just started working normally again.Same projects, same machine, no major changes that I'm aware of. Preview is smooth and reliable now, and I haven't run into the issues that were constantly happening before.What's weird is that I never had the problem on my Mac, only on Windows.Did Adobe push some kind of fix recently? Was there an update that addressed this? Or are other Windows users still seeing the same Preview problems?I'd be interested to know if anyone else has noticed a difference over the last few days.

Nishu Kushwaha · Answer

Hi kiwiii1, glad to hear it's working smoothly for you now. To answer properly, could you share a bit more about what you were experiencing before? Symptoms like skipped frames, slow caching, audio drift, freezing during preview, etc. "Preview issue" can mean a few different things, and that detail will help us match it to any recent updates.

The latest version of After Effects is 26.2.1, which was released around the last week of April. Here's the list of fixed issues in the 26.2.1 if you want to check whether something matching your experience was addressed: https://adobe.ly/4fr3clD

Thanks,

Nishu

Sign up

To post, reply, or follow discussions, please sign in with your Adobe ID.

Sign in to Adobe Community

To post, reply, or follow discussions, please sign in with your Adobe ID.

Scanning file for viruses.

This file cannot be downloaded