Skip to main content
valerios27574466
Known Participant
October 1, 2018
Question

Illustrator CC 2017 freezing and crashing constantly

  • October 1, 2018
  • 5 replies
  • 5345 views

Windows 7 professional

illustrator 22.1 (64 bit)

64Gb

i7-6700 3.40 GHz

nvidia Quadro P2000

no plugin

no printer or scanner connected

Suitcase Fusion 8 for font

Illustrator CC 2017 freezing and crashing constantly

- I open Illustrator, and I can not use it for the first thirty seconds, because no keyboard commands work.

- Amount a photo, or save a document and the software hangs and for over a minute does not work, at that precise moment the monitor screen becomes all white.

5 replies

valerios27574466
Known Participant
October 11, 2018

Monika, an Adobe manager, does not read this my post?
Are users who need to help other users?

Monika Gause
Community Expert
Community Expert
October 11, 2018

More than 95% of people in the forum are not Adobe Staff. Only folks marked as "Staff" are staff.

The link to Customer Care has already been posted. Use it to talk to Adobe staff. They can log into your system.

Contact Customer Care

People on Mac OS also have reported that connecting a printer solved this issue. So I would definitely try that.

valerios27574466
Known Participant
October 15, 2018

Thanks for everything, the printer has been connected but we have not solved the problem. We would like to contact someone in Adobe, but nobody in my company speaks English. We have noticed that the "chat" tool is disabled ...
How could we do?

valerios27574466
Known Participant
October 11, 2018

Windows 7 professional

64Gb

i7-6700 3.40 GHz

nvidia Quadro P2000 391.58

no plugin

no printer or scanner connected

Adobe Creative CC 2017

illustrator 22.1 (64 bit)

Suitcase Fusion 8 for font

Illustrator CC 2017 freezing and crashing constantly

- Quando apro illustrator oppure photoshop, per circa venti secondi la tastiera non funziona

- ogni volta che importo un pdf, tiff, psd, illustrator "non risponde" per alcuni minuti

- ogni volta che creo un pdf, illustrator "non risponde" per alcuni minuti

- ogni volta che salvo in .ai, illustrator "non risponde" per alcuni minuti

- quando "non risponde" lo schermo diventa completamente bianco

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xkrlFAu2nI

Monika Gause
Community Expert
Community Expert
October 1, 2018

Please connect a printer. If you don't have one, install a PDF printer.

valerios27574466
Known Participant
October 2, 2018

My pc installed a black and white laser (ethernet) online.
I have the "pdf printer" installed.

Muqqarib Hassan
Inspiring
October 1, 2018

Hi, try this method.

Step 1. Restore lost AI files after Adobe Illustrator CC 2017 crash

If you lost important AI graphics or unsaved files on Adobe Illustrator CC, don't worry. Here you have two options to restore lost AI files and you can selectively follow either way to get lost AI files back now.

Option 1. Restore lost Adobe Illustrator files with Adobe file recovery software

If you accidentally deleted or lost AI files in your PC, don't worry. You may directly restore lost Adobe Illustrator files from Windows PC within 3 steps by using professional Adobe file recovery software - EaseUS Data Recovery Wizard.

This software allows you to thoroughly scan and find all AI files in Windows 10 with its Quick Scan and Deep Scan modes. If you prefer a simple way to find lost Adobe Illustrator files, just free download EaseUS Adobe file recovery software and follow below steps to get lost AI files back now:

1. Launch EaseUS Adobe file recovery software and select location where your AI files were saved, click Scan;

Restore lost AI files.

2. Let this software to scan and find lost Adobe Illustrator files and images with Quick Scan and Deep Scan mode;

Restore lost Adobe Illustrator files on Windows 10.

3. Select found AI files and click Recover to restore all lost AI files to a safe spot in PC.

Save and restore found AI files in Windows 10.

Option 2. Restore unsaved AI files from Auto Save

If you've turned on Data Recovery feature in Adobe Illustrator, you can restore unsaved AI files with below tips:

1. Go to Preference > Click on File Handling & Clipboard > Check Automatically Save Recovery Data Every (set data backup frequency 2 minutes for example) and uncheck Turn off Data Recovery for complex document > Click OK to keep all changes;
3. Force to quit Adobe Illustrator and re-open Adobe Illustrator again > Click OK > Save recovered file as new file in your PC;
By this way, your unsaved AI files will be restored.

If you don't find lost AI files, follow below guidelines to restore AI files:

  1. 1. Navigate to below path and open Preference file:
  2. C:/Users//AppData/Roaming/Adobe/Adobe Illustrator Settings/en_US*/x64/Adobe Illustrator Prefs;
  3. 2. Open the Preference file with a text editor and navigate to:
  4. /aiFileFormat {/PDFCompatibility 1enableATEReadRecovery 0 /enableContentRecovery 0/enableATEWriteRecovery 0/clipboardPSLevel 3};
  5. 3. Change enableContentRecovery value from 0 to 1 and save the file;
  6. If you don't find the enableContentRecovery configuration in /aiFileFormat, add /enableContectRecovery1 in the folder and save all changes.
  7. After this, you can restart AI Illustrator on your PC and you can find unsaved files on the window to ask you if you want to save the file or not.
  8. 4. Click OK to save the file on your PC then.

Step 2. Repair and fix crashed Adobe Illustrator CC 2017 on Windows 10

Here are some detail steps that you may need to follow and repair corrupted AI if your Adobe Illustrator crashes on your PC:

1. Restart PC and relaunch Adobe Illustrator CC 2017 on Windows 10;
2. Check and update Adobe Illustrator CC to the latest version;
3. Click on Run Diagnostics > Select to launch Illustrator in Safe Mode > Click on each item in the list that cause AI crash error (such as corrupted fonts, plug-ins or out-of -date drivers etc);
4. Check the troubleshooting tips for each item and follow tips to correct problems;
5. Select Enabled when Illustrator is relaunched when all problems have been fixed > Click Enable on Relaunch;
When all problems have been fixed in Adobe Illustrator, Illustrator will launch in Normal Mode and it will work normally again.

valerios27574466
Known Participant
October 2, 2018

I thank you for the answer, I never lost an illustrator document, because "illustrator" does not close, but hangs for a few seconds if I amount a photo (without embedding it) if I view the page for single colors, or if I save .
Also every time I open the software for a few seconds the keyboard commands do not work ...

Srishti_Bali
Legend
October 1, 2018

Hi Valerio,

Sorry to hear about this. Please make sure that your system has Service Pack 1 installed on Windows 7 to run CC applications. If it is already installed, please try these steps:

Preference reset Illustrator: How to set preferences in Illustrator

If that does not help try steps mentioned here: Improve Illustrator performance on Windows

Regards,

Srishti

valerios27574466
Known Participant
October 2, 2018

Thanks for the answer, I have windows 7 professional with Service Pack 1 already installed, and as many as 64GB of RAM memory that often seem to be unused by this software.
When "illustrator" crashes, often (but not always) I get an "NVIDIA" error ...

Monika Gause
Community Expert
Community Expert
October 2, 2018

Can you try and search for an update to your graphic card drivers?

If that‘s not possible, can you try and turn off the GPU acceleration by clicking on the little rocket in the task bar.