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August 19, 2025
Question

Acrobat Using Virtual Memory and Crashing

  • August 19, 2025
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Starting the other day, my computer at work crashes whenever I open a PDF and then open the page preview pane. It will start consuming more and more memory and then finally freeze up the mouse and the desktop will go black before finally crashing the entire computer and giving me an error in Event Viewer saying that Acrobat consumed all the virtual memory. I have 64GB of RAM and my virtual memory was manually increased to 128GB, but that doesn't help. I wasn't having this last week, but there was a Windows update over the weekend and that is when this seems to have started.

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Legend
September 8, 2025

Hi @Keith Wing

I'm following up to see if you are still experiencing this issue or if it is no longer reproducible on your machine. 

If the issue is still reproducible, could you try installing the latest update available: https://adobe.ly/4pa68W6

 

If the issue is still reproducible, kindly help us with diagnostic and crash logs:

 

Diagnostic logs:

Run the Adobe Diagnostic Utility

  1. Download the utility from this link: https://adobe.ly/4nqkAbE
  2. Open the tool and click Start Diagnostics.
  3. Ensure Advanced Logging is enabled.
  4. Launch Acrobat and reproduce the crash or freeze (open the “What’s New” window).
  5. Once the issue occurs, return to the utility and click Stop Monitoring.
  6. Copy the Log ID shown and share it with us here.

 

Crash logs:

Collect Crash Logs.

If Acrobat is crashing (and not just freezing), we also need crash logs:

  • Instructions: https://adobe.ly/44afCIz
  • Once collected, upload the logs to any cloud drive (e.g., OneDrive, Google Drive, Dropbox) and share the link with us.



Best regards,
Tariq | Adobe Community Team

Meenakshi_Negi
Legend
August 19, 2025

Hi Keith Wing,

 

Thank you for teaching out, and sorry about the trouble caused.

 

Please try the troubleshooting steps suggested in the following help document: https://adobe.ly/45nIptQ

Ensure that you have the latest application update installed. To learn about the latest updates available, refer to the following help page: https://adobe.ly/4lwEGPz

 

Try reinstalling the application using the following steps:
-Remove the application and run the cleaner tool (https://adobe.ly/4oG8rQu).
-Reboot the machine
-Install Adobe Acrobat from the following page: https://adobe.ly/4lwd2C3;

 

If the issue still occurs, collect the crash logs using the diagnostic tool and share the log ID with us.

 

Thanks,

Meenakshi