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Harald De Luca
Known Participant
August 27, 2026
Question

Camera RAW 14.4.1, 18.5 and most recently 18.6 cannot be used. It simply won't open.

  • August 27, 2026
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The updates for the versions I mentioned in the title don't work. Camera Raw keeps claiming my RTX 3070 GPU isn't supported. So, I can't use it. Only version 18.4.0.0 works.

Here are screenshots of the messages I receive with the latest versions.

 And here with version 18.6.0.0

Apart from Photoshop itself, which does support my GPU:

Therefore, I cannot take advantage of the latest Camera RAW features. This is unacceptable.

I already submitted a bug report for versions 18.4.1 to 18.5, but without success. You haven't fixed the problem in this version.

Here are the logs for version 18.6.0.0

As well as those of the version that works for comparison.

I also upload my dxdiag file for analysis.

I even got another NVIDIA GeForce Studio driver update today, version 616.56. But it didn't fix the Camera RAW issue. So I'm still stuck on the working version 18.4. 

It's really frustrating 😤 knowing that I'm paying for the software.

4 replies

Participant
August 28, 2026

I have the same Issue since Version 18.4.1. All Workarounds didn’t work. I updated the Nvidia Studio Drivers today to the latest Version, without success. My GPU is a Asus RTX 3060. I downgraded to 18.3, but in LIghtroom Classic the internal Camera Raw Version ist 18.5, so the GPU is still not supported. The time for Denoising Process in LRC is not acceptable. 

Harald De Luca
Known Participant
August 29, 2026

Yeah, and even reinstalling the driver from before the 600 series didn't give any convincing results. For me, the only latest version that works on my setup is Camera Raw 18.4.0. All the newer ones are broken. And I haven't figured out how to change the internal Camera Raw version in Lightroom Classic.