Alt tab / Switch Windows Freezing Premiere Pro

I had a similar issue with a newer version of Premiere Pro. Whenever I minimized Premiere or sometimes even clicked away from its window, the program became unresponsive for 25-30 seconds when I tried to use it again.

I tried reinstalling Premiere, clearing caches, updating my drivers, removing third-party plugins, enabling/disabling REBAR in BIOS, enabling/disabling HWA GPU scheduling in Windows, and changing the system power plan and GPU drivers to high performance, but nothing helped.

Not knowing what to do next, I almost accidentally decided to remove the folder Documents\Adobe\Premiere Pro, and it fixed the issue. I then copied the removed folder from my another computer (which never had this issue) to get back all my custom settings. It’s been working like a charm so far.

Hello, I come from the future, I found the definitive solution for this problem. Since version 14.4 in 2020 I have had this problem with all versions of Premiere onwards, I tried everything up to reinstall Windows and always the same thing happened... until I tried this: Disable Hardware Accelerated GPU Scheduling in Windows 10.

Now I can edit without Premiere freezing my whole system.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0TdxZL4FQcI

I also have a powerful PC (3800x and RTX 2070 Super , 32GB DDR4)  and this happened to me too. Rolled back to 2021 and tadaaah.

It seems that anything past 2017 in Photoshop is HORRIBLE (lag/tearing/performance issues), yet Illustrator gets saved on ver2021 (Except for the 2022 version, wich lags a tiny bit on startup)

Adobe better get a new QC team before destroying their own products

Yeah sure, we want the newest features, but we also want the performance and stuff FIXED