Photoshop 2026 crashes frequently
When I updated my Adobe photoshop 2026, I never had a good day. The photoshop crashes after I processed every 2-3 photos, sometimes even crashes the system and cause reboot or forced power off. The lates version is Photoshop v27.2, Camera Raw v 18.11 suffer the same problems. The crashes mostly happen in Camera raw when select objects using musk or apply a preset to a selection. I believe that the SW developers have poor understanding of using GPU, and bad strategy to recover from error. As I know, the versions of Adobe photoshop prior to 2026 never taking advantage of the GPU. The Camera Raw uses GPU heavily for AI related tasks, and performs badly and encounter frequent errors and crashes. This is a headache for me since I have to user task manager to kill the hanging app, and sometimes unplug the power cord to force a poweroff and restart.
I don't understand why Adobe does the poor job for Camera raw. I tried Lightroom, it seems to me it does the job reliably and efficiently (without heavy CPU, GPU use). Given that the Lightroom and Camera raw afre virtually the same product, why the Camera raw does the job so poorly and crashed so easily. I never use Lightroom for any of the image processing workflow, only use Photoshop. So, if Photoshop crashes so frequently, what is its use. I am wondering if any people have the same bad experience as me or the fault is on my PC.
My PC info:
iBUYPOWER Element Gaming PC Desktop
AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D 8-Core Processor (4.70 GHz)
32GB RAM - 2TB SSD
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 12GB
64-bit operating system, x64-based processor
Windows 11 Home 25H2, 64-bit operating system
