Photoshop 2022 Freezes Unexpectedly on Windows 10

Daniel, Camera Raw is not the problem. The problem is Photoshop. When the program is doing some kind of an edit, PS freezes regardless of what filters or adjustments are being applied at the moment. I only mentioned Camera Raw because it does not fail normally when used with Bridge, so you would imagine the code is OK. But when it runs as a filter, just like other filters, PS can lock up. PS will freeze if I am just doing an adjustment such as a Curves adjustment.

I have version 14.0.1 installed. See reply to Daniel Presedo.

There was a recent update for Camera Raw to 14.1 to fix some freezing and crashing issues with it. Make sure you have that version installed.

Thank you, @Ken Curtis for the additional info. 

Since this is on Windows:

1. If you go to Edit > Preferences > ACR (last on menu) 
2.  Select Performance > Perfromance > Use Graphics Processor 
   - Try off
   - Try Custom

And let us know if this prevents the crashing.  

Daniel, I do not want to mislead you, in that I rarely use Lightroom. I use it to help other people, but not for my own work.

If I open Camera Raw from Bridge, I never have a problem.

If I open Camera Raw from within Photoshop as a filter, I have seen the program freeze.

Thank you for looking into this.

Thank you for the additional information, I am going to contact some team memebers for ideas around what might be happening. I'll post information here when I get an update. 

I want to see if I have this correct:

• If you use Lightroom to open and edit images there are no issues? 
• If you use Camera Raw > specifically within Photoshop > the problem persists? Correct?

The freezing continues. I have never had a problem with Camera Raw when launched from Bridge. Today, PS froze when I was using Camera Raw filter as a filter. Camera Raw (filter) froze on the screen and would not respond to mouse clicks or key strokes. There seems to be a fundamental flaw somewhere.

Daniel Presedo, cleaning the registry did not make a difference in the end. PS worked fine yesterday afternoon and this morning, but froze again this afternoon. Thought you would want to know.

i saw that post too, but even though has some similarities to my issue. My photoshop freezes everytime i open it, not only when i do it trough lightroom ! it allows to go to preferences, after a few seconds does not matter what i do it freezes. i send a screenshot of the task manager showing what happens there ! hopefully we can solve this issue fast, have some work to do !

Daniel Presedo, thanks for looking into this. First, I disabled the autosave and the freeze still occurs, so while the freezing is reduced in frequency, it still happens. I will need another day to experiment with your other suggestions.

There is one thing I did today that stopped the freeze-up at least for the last few hours. I used a program, JV16 Power Tools to clean my registry and remove a bunch of temp files. I won't know whether this permanently fixed the problem or just coincidentally fixed it for the time being until I have used the program more.