Graphics acceleration disabled due to error & crash & BSOD

Report · Aug 05, 2022

Hello everyone,

I have the following problem:

While editing on LrC, after some time (especially if I do other stuff on the side, like browsing etc), the GPU while it's being used as normal (see screenshot) suddenly stops working and I get "Graphics acceleration disabled due to error" message. A few seconds later the system always hangs and I cannot type anything or move mouse. And after that I get a BSOD with the message "Stop code: DRIVER_POWER_STATE_FAILURE".

On my attempt to fix the error, I have done the following:

Manually install laterst drivers
Clean install of windows
Change nvidia drivers from studio to game
Make my external HDDs not sleep
Make the whole system not going into sleep
Install older version of LrC (11.0.1)
Change LrC to work with integrated GPU instead of nvidia GPU
Disconnect laptop from everything except the external HDD where my photos are

but still the problem persists.

I have tried turning GPU acceleration off for a while, but not enough to experience the problem. In any way I would not prefer to use it this way, since the process is slower, and time is essential to my work.

My laptop is an XPS 9570 - i7, 16 GB ram, 512 SSD, Nvidia 1050Ti MaxQ.

I include photos that I think might help.

Thanks for all the help.

System info:

Lightroom Classic version: 11.4.1 [ 202206241800-b406ce4c ]
License: Creative Cloud
Language setting: en
Operating system: Windows 10 - Business Edition
Version: 10.0.22000
Application architecture: x64
System architecture: x64
Logical processor count: 12
Processor speed: 2,2GHz
SqLite Version: 3.36.0
Built-in memory: 16115,2 MB
Real memory available to Lightroom: 16115,2 MB
Real memory used by Lightroom: 2274,8 MB (14,1%)
Virtual memory used by Lightroom: 3228,6 MB
GDI objects count: 812
USER objects count: 2498
Process handles count: 2168
Memory cache size: 0,0MB
Internal Camera Raw version: 14.4.1 [ 1122 ]
Maximum thread count used by Camera Raw: 5
Camera Raw SIMD optimization: SSE2,AVX,AVX2
Camera Raw virtual memory: 172MB / 8057MB (2%)
Camera Raw real memory: 242MB / 16115MB (1%)
System DPI setting: 192 DPI (high DPI mode)
Desktop composition enabled: Yes
Displays: 1) 3840x2160
Input types: Multitouch: Yes, Integrated touch: Yes, Integrated pen: Yes, External touch: No, External pen: No, Keyboard: No

Graphics Processor Info:
DirectX: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti with Max-Q Design (31.0.15.1659)

Init State: 3
User Preference: 1

Application folder: C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Lightroom Classic
Library Path: C:\Users\georg\Pictures\Lightroom\Lightroom Catalog-3-v10-v11.lrcat
Settings Folder: C:\Users\georg\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\Lightroom

Installed Plugins:
1) AdobeStock
2) Facebook
3) Flickr
4) Nikon Tether Plugin

Report · Aug 06, 2022

Driver and/or hardware problem. Nothing to do with LrC, although LrC might trigger it.

see:

https://www.tomshardware.com/how-to/fix-driver-power-state-failure-error