Composition Panel Freezes

[defaultr75q7yisuiiy]

Help!

About 3 weeks ago, this problem has cropped up and rendered AE unuseable to me on my laptop:

When I open a project (or start a new one), everything works fine for a few minutes until suddenly the composion panel just freezes. 

After Effects continues to run, I can even close the panel and reopen it and it reopens in its frozen state. I can continue to edit on the timeline, save my work etc, but when I close After Effects it will stop responding and crash out.

I have tried:

Resetting cache

deleting preferences

switching to CPU rendering

switching off multiframe rendering

updating my graphics drivers

reinstalling After Effects completely

No avail, it just freezes now, almost every time, after a couple of minutes regardless of what I am doing in it.

Specs:

Ryzen 9955hx

Geforce 5070ti

64gb DDR5 RAM

After Effects current version is 25.2 - this updated today Sept 2025

Geforce Studio Driver 581.29 - this was updated

The laptop is basically 2 months old, and has zero issues otherwise. Its my first time with AMD though, my old Intel PC (i7 9700k geforce 2060), while slow does not seem to be having the same problem.

This leads me to think its a screw up with driver compatibility on some new update, relating to the AMD chipset / threads and After Effects.. but at this point I'm guessing, its left my wheel house of knowledge at this point. It was working fine before about 1 September 2025.

Anybody else experiencing this issue? Any solves?

[David.Arbor]

Hi @defaultr75q7yisuiiy. 

Sorry to hear you're running into issues. Let's try some things:

1. The latest version of AE is actually 25.5, can you try updating to that from the Creative Cloud Desktop app?
   2. Does this happen in specific projects or all? To see if a third-party tool is causing a problem, try launching in Safe Mode, which will disable loading third-party plug-ins and will give you a temporary set of fresh preferences. Work for a bit and see if you run into the freeze. To run in Safe Mode, hold Ctrl + Alt + Shift (Win) or Cmd + Opt + Shift (macOS) while starting AE.

3. Can you post a full UI screen recording of the issue? There might be some clues in it.

4. Have you tried rolling back your GPU driver to a previous Studio version?

Thanks,
- David, After Effects Engineering Team

[rayhankhan]

Same issue is happening with me, I am using Asus Rog G18, RTX 5080. and this issue is killing my workflow. 

[rayhankhan]

I am also Facing (Not responding) very often

[defaults2ensjzd87vn]

Same exact issues as mine, so annoying. Using the latest version of after effects 25.5. Please help

[defaults2ensjzd87vn]

I had the exact same issue. Try updating your gpu driver to NVIDIA Studio driver manually or thru the NVIDIA App. Somehow worked on mine.

[ggdafool]

The pattern is always the same: Asus laptop with AMD and RTX. Ive done the exact same driver update as you and it worked for me thank you very much you saved me