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Lightroom Denoise adding random blocks and artifacts to images

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Can anyone help me or shed some light why Lightroom Classic is adding these weird blocks and artifacts to my pictures once run through Denoise. There were no edits applied prior to denoise. These are on other parts of the photo as well.

Lightoom is upto date along with all drivers. My system shouldn't be the issue but here's the details
DELL XPS 17
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop GPU
Driver 531.79
11th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-11800H @ 2.30GHz
32 GB RAM

Plenty of storage space

I only have very basic knowledge of Lightroom so it might be an obvious setting somewhere, but if someone can help I'd be very grateful.

Images are .arw files

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FNT-Photo

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I have exactly the same issues with my XPS 17 9710 (with Nvidia GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop GPU).

Even after a complete fresh installation of the computer there was no improvement.

But after installing the latest Nvidia Studio driver (version 536.40 from 06/29/2023) the problems were solved for about a week. I was able to edit about 60 images with different settings of Denoise without any artifacts and crashes, both individually and as batch processing.

I was relieved to find that it was apparently not hardware damage but driver issues or settings that were to blame for the problems.

Unfortunately, since yesterday, the old problems are reappearing with almost every usage of Denoise.
Batch editing multiple images with Denoise always crashes Lightroom Classic.
The artifacts (colored boxes) appear in almost every dng generated individually with denoise.

The graphics card driver that seemed to have solved the problem is still the same.

Does anyone have the same problems (see example images from Casga_) with a computer other than the XPS 17 9710 and a graphics card other than the Nvidia GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop GPU?

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Ian Lyons

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Do you have Windows auto updates enabled? If so, then it's possible that something was changed. You could try reinstalling the GPU driver

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FNT-Photo

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Yes. I have also thought about reinstalling the same driver. I'm just a little worried that any old files will accumulate and cause problems. Let's see if I try this anyway. Thanks for the idea.

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CumberLinda

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Has anyone suggested disabling the LogiOptions plugin? Use File > Plugin Manager. That plugin has caused many problems in the past for Lightroom users.

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Casga_Author

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Yes I did try that already as someone said that plug-in can cause issues. No change in the result though

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defaultwekyvt8fqi8x

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I have a similar spec Laptop and also have the issue, enhanced denoise is nearly useless due to artefact blocks. It's not just your machine and likely a bug somewhere!

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johnrellis

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@defaultwekyvt8fqi8x, you're issue may or may not have the same cause as @Casga_. Most problems with LR's AI commands are caused by older, buggy graphics drivers. Try updating your graphics driver by going directly to the manufacturer's web site:
https://helpx.adobe.com/lightroom-classic/kb/troubleshoot-gpu.html#solution-4

If that doesn't help, please copy/paste here the entire contents of the LR menu command Help > System Info -- that will let us see exactly which versions of hardware and software LR thinks you're running.

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Casga_Author

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Lightroom Classic version: 12.3 [ 202304101834-a085245c ]

License: Creative Cloud

Language setting: en

Operating system: Windows 10 - Home Premium Edition

Version: 10.0.22621

Application architecture: x64

System architecture: x64

Logical processor count: 16

Processor speed: 2.3GHz

SqLite Version: 3.36.0

CPU Utilisation: 0.0%

Built-in memory: 32491.0 MB

Dedicated GPU memory used by Lightroom: 2318.3MB / 6009.0MB (38%)

Real memory available to Lightroom: 32491.0 MB

Real memory used by Lightroom: 1683.7 MB (5.1%)

Virtual memory used by Lightroom: 4129.2 MB

GDI objects count: 717

USER objects count: 2585

Process handles count: 3221

Memory cache size: 8.6MB

Internal Camera Raw version: 15.3 [ 1451 ]

Maximum thread count used by Camera Raw: 5

Camera Raw SIMD optimization: SSE2,AVX,AVX2

Camera Raw virtual memory: 270MB / 16245MB (1%)

Camera Raw real memory: 314MB / 32491MB (0%)

System DPI setting: 216 DPI (high DPI mode)

Desktop composition enabled: Yes

Standard Preview Size: 3840 pixels

Displays: 1) 3840x2400

Input types: Multitouch: Yes, Integrated touch: Yes, Integrated pen: Yes, External touch: No, External pen: Yes, Keyboard: No

Graphics Processor Info:

DirectX: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop GPU (31.0.15.3161)

Init State: GPU for Image Processing supported by default

User Preference: Auto

Application folder: C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Lightroom Classic

Library Path: C:\OneDrive\Pictures\Lightroom\Lightroom Catalog-v12.lrcat

Settings Folder: C:\Users\Casga\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\Lightroom

Installed Plugins:

1) AdobeStock

2) Flickr

3) LogiOptions

4) Nikon Tether Plugin

Config.lua flags: None

Adapter #1: Vendor : 10de

Device : 2520

Subsystem : a5d1028

Revision : a1

Video Memory : 6009

Adapter #2: Vendor : 8086

Device : 9a60

Subsystem : a5d1028

Revision : 1

Video Memory : 80

Adapter #3: Vendor : 1414

Device : 8c

Subsystem : 0

Revision : 0

Video Memory : 0

AudioDeviceIOBlockSize: 1024

AudioDeviceName: $$$/dvaaudiodevice/SystemDefaultAndEffectiveDeviceName=System Default - Speakers (Intel® Smart Sound Technology for MIPI SoundWire® Audio)#{comment}DVAAU-4201250: Open the audio hardware preferences page.

AudioDeviceNumberOfChannels: 2

AudioDeviceSampleRate: 48000

Build: Uninitialized

Direct2DEnabled: false

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GoldingD

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What happens if your catalog is not on the cloud (One Drive)

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Casga_Author

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Exactly the same thing. I thought the same thing this morning so I created a new library in a new folder just under the c drive and it did the same

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GoldingD

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Please post your System Information as Lightroom Classic (LrC) reports it. In LrC click on Help, then System Info, then Copy. Paste that information into a reply. Please present all information from first line down to and including Plug-in Info. Info after Plug-in info can be cut as that is just so much dead space to us non-Techs.

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Casga_Author

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Hi,

Here's the info. Hopefully I've managed to get everything you've asked for.

Lightroom Classic version: 12.3 [ 202304101834-a085245c ]

License: Creative Cloud

Language setting: en

Operating system: Windows 10 - Home Premium Edition

Version: 10.0.22621

Application architecture: x64

System architecture: x64

Logical processor count: 16

Processor speed: 2.3GHz

SqLite Version: 3.36.0

CPU Utilisation: 0.0%

Built-in memory: 32491.0 MB

Dedicated GPU memory used by Lightroom: 2318.3MB / 6009.0MB (38%)

Real memory available to Lightroom: 32491.0 MB

Real memory used by Lightroom: 1683.7 MB (5.1%)

Virtual memory used by Lightroom: 4129.2 MB

GDI objects count: 717

USER objects count: 2585

Process handles count: 3221

Memory cache size: 8.6MB

Internal Camera Raw version: 15.3 [ 1451 ]

Maximum thread count used by Camera Raw: 5

Camera Raw SIMD optimization: SSE2,AVX,AVX2

Camera Raw virtual memory: 270MB / 16245MB (1%)

Camera Raw real memory: 314MB / 32491MB (0%)

System DPI setting: 216 DPI (high DPI mode)

Desktop composition enabled: Yes

Standard Preview Size: 3840 pixels

Displays: 1) 3840x2400

Input types: Multitouch: Yes, Integrated touch: Yes, Integrated pen: Yes, External touch: No, External pen: Yes, Keyboard: No

Graphics Processor Info:

DirectX: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop GPU (31.0.15.3161)

Init State: GPU for Image Processing supported by default

User Preference: Auto

Application folder: C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Lightroom Classic

Library Path: C:\OneDrive\Pictures\Lightroom\Lightroom Catalog-v12.lrcat

Settings Folder: C:\Users\Casga\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\Lightroom

Installed Plugins:

1) AdobeStock

2) Flickr

3) LogiOptions

4) Nikon Tether Plugin

Config.lua flags: None

Adapter #1: Vendor : 10de

Device : 2520

Subsystem : a5d1028

Revision : a1

Video Memory : 6009

Adapter #2: Vendor : 8086

Device : 9a60

Subsystem : a5d1028

Revision : 1

Video Memory : 80

Adapter #3: Vendor : 1414

Device : 8c

Subsystem : 0

Revision : 0

Video Memory : 0

AudioDeviceIOBlockSize: 1024

AudioDeviceName: $$$/dvaaudiodevice/SystemDefaultAndEffectiveDeviceName=System Default - Speakers (Intel® Smart Sound Technology for MIPI SoundWire® Audio)#{comment}DVAAU-4201250: Open the audio hardware preferences page.

AudioDeviceNumberOfChannels: 2

AudioDeviceSampleRate: 48000

Build: Uninitialized

Direct2DEnabled: false

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Casga_Author

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There's lots of lines of GL_ after this. I've assumed that they're the lines you didn't need. If you do need those as well let me know and I'll post those as well

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Ian Lyons

Community Expert

You're issue is almost certainly driver related. While the most recent version of the Game Ready Driver is 531.79 the Studio version, which tends to be more compatible with graphics apps is 531.61. I suggest you try the latest Studio version.

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Casga_Author

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Thank you, I'll give this a go and report back

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Jao vdL

Community Expert

Not seen anything like this with any of my images. Probably a bug with your specific GPU. Try making sure the drivers are absolutely up to date (check the Nvidia website). If they are up-to-date and you still see this, share the arw file (use dropbox or similar to link to it) and people here can check if it is specific to your arw files or if it is your specific GPU that triggers the issue.

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