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November 19, 2023
Question

Bridge and Photoshop won't run simultaenously

  • November 19, 2023
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This is a bit frustrating and I'm seeking the community's assistance.

Ever since Microsoft updated Windows 11 to manage graphics cards, I've been having difficulty with Photoshop and Bridge, with neither one being stable.  At this point, I've finally gotten Photoshop to behave.  However, if I try to run Bridge at the same time, my computer becomes unstable and PS doesn't work correctly.  Further, Bridge, for lack of a better term, "jumps" slightly up and down on the monitor.  At the same time, Photoshop drags to the point of unusability.  The moment I close Bridge, PS begins to behave, although it takes about 30 seconds for it to "recover."  It's almost as if there's a major disk or memory clean up action taking place, although Task Manager doesn't indicate this to be the case.

 

Please note that my setup worked very well prior to the update.   The way I've stabilized Photoshop is to use hardware acceleration and turn off Open CL, 30 Bit Display, and GPU Compositing.  I've also turned on hardware acceleration for handling camera raw files.  

 

For Bridge, I have tried enabling and disabling Software Rendering.  I've also set Bridge to use hardware acceleration for processing camera raw files.  

 

 

My computer, although not the newest in the world, is a Lenovo P14S, Gen 1, 16GB Ram, with a Nvidia  Quadro 520 graphics card.   All of the Intel and Nvidia drivers are up to date, to the point of disabling both the integrated and Nvidia graphic processors and reinstalling new drivers.  Windows is also up-to-date and I've performed all of the recommended disk checks and restores.  I am running on two external monitors via a matched Lenovo docking station.  Both Photoshop and Bridge are the latest releases.  Before anyone asks, yes I know more RAM would be beneficial, but even with both products running, the machine is not maxed-out - it hovers around the 75% range.

 

Finally, I've also tried the setting Windows to run both Bridge and PS explicitely on the Nvidia card, but that doesn't seem to have any effect.

 

My normal work flow is Bridge==>Camera Raw==>Final touches in PS.  

 

As I stated, this was a working setup up to about a year ago - yes, I know software and the world move on, but I can't imagine this kind of sudden incompatability so quickly.  That's how long I've been debugging the issue off and on.   Clearly, I'm missing some setting that will make the world right again.  

Any thoughts?

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Participant
November 19, 2023

More to the mystery.  I'm suspecting that this is actually a Windows issue.  I noticed, after I posted my message, that Amazon Prime Video won't work on my second monitor (my external monitors extend the desktop as screens one and two).  I just opened Bridge and PS monitor one and both are stable.  Prior to this, I had Bridge on monitor 2.

Obviously, having both on one screen obviates why I have two monitors, but this says something, although I'm not sure what.  Suggestions are more than welcome!