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ArtDroneCR
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August 1, 2026
Question

Lightroom detects "irrecoverable GPU error" although Camera Raw AI works perfectly (RTX 4050 Laptop GPU)

  • August 1, 2026
  • 1 reply
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Hi everyone,

I'm hoping someone has seen this issue before because I've exhausted almost every troubleshooting step.

System

  • Adobe Lightroom 9.4.1
  • Windows 11 Home
  • HP Pavilion Plus 16
  • Intel Core Ultra 7 155H
  • NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 Laptop GPU (6 GB)
  • Intel Arc integrated GPU

Problem

Lightroom reports:

"The graphics processor has detected an unrecoverable error."

GPU acceleration becomes disabled and AI Denoise takes around 4–5 minutes per RAW image.

However, when I run AI Denoise directly from Adobe Camera Raw on the exact same RAW file, it finishes in about 50 seconds.

This makes me believe the GPU hardware itself is working correctly.

What I've already tried

  • Complete NVIDIA driver removal using DDU
  • Clean installation of the latest NVIDIA Studio Driver
  • Older NVIDIA drivers
  • Full Lightroom uninstall
  • Adobe Creative Cloud Cleaner Tool
  • Deleted Lightroom preferences
  • Deleted Lightroom cache
  • Reinstalled Lightroom from scratch
  • Forced Lightroom to use the RTX 4050 in Windows Graphics Settings
  • Configured High Performance GPU in NVIDIA App
  • Disabled the Intel Arc GPU
  • Rebooted multiple times

Nothing changes.

Lightroom System Info reports:

 
compatible: Yes
compute: No
hard: fail_no_gpu2

Has anyone experienced the fail_no_gpu2 error?

Is this a known bug in Lightroom 9.4.1?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

    1 reply

    Sameer K
    Community Manager
    Community Manager
    August 11, 2026

    Welcome to the Lightroom Community. I'll move your response to discussions for now. 

     

    For now, after you update the GPU drivers, try the steps below and check how it goes. The GPU info & Logs location on Windows is %APPDATA%\Adobe\CameraRaw.

    A shortcut to get to this folder on Windows is:

    • Press the Windows + R

    • Enter %APPDATA%\Adobe\CameraRaw 

    • Rename the GPU & Logs folder in this directory by adding .old at the end. (GPU.old & Logs.old)

    • Relaunch Photoshop.


    Also, follow the steps here to delete the TempDisableGPU3 or TempDisableGPU2 files: https://adobe.ly/4wP7vNp


    Let me know how it goes. Thanks!
    Sameer K

    (Type '@' and type my name to mention me when you reply)