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KM-SWM
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April 20, 2025
Question

Lightroom Classic crashes every few mouse clicks

  • April 20, 2025
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Hi,

 

I see several threads of this and am yet to find a solution.

Every few clicks, Lightroom crashes. I can barely get anything done.

Oddly enough, I have the same problem on the creative cloud version of Lightroom as well.

 

Can't pinpoint what causes the program to crash. Sometimes it's changing from one photo to the next, sometimes clicking a dragging a slider or preset button... cannot find a pattern. Just seems like I'm reopening the application every minute or two.

 

The crash looks different. Most of the time, the program simply exits to desktop. Occasionally it freezes and I have to force-quit through task manager. On some occurrences, the display is destorted/garbled or has something odd going on. I've attached a screenshot (NOTE - this is from the cloud version of lightroom but I get the same thing in both versions).

 

System resources look fine. LrC says it's only using 20% of dedicated GPU memory and 6.1% RAM. CPU load hovers around 5%.

 

Most of the time I'm editing a Canon CRAW file. But it happens regardless of file type/size.

I've also tried changing whether the app is using the GPU or not. Seems to make no difference.

 

Thanks for your help/input. 

 

LrC version: 14.2

OS: Windows 11.0.26100

CPU: AMD Ryzen 5700X (3.3 GHz, 8-core/16-thread)

RAM: 32GB DDR4 3200

GPU: AMD Radeon 6750XT (12GB)

GPU driver version 32.0.13031.3015 (2/25/25)

 

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1 reply

johnrellis
johnrellis
Legend
April 21, 2025

As a first step, install the most recent driver (a month newer):

https://www.amd.com/en/support/downloads/drivers.html/graphics/radeon-rx/radeon-rx-6000-series/amd-radeon-rx-6750-xt.html

 

If that doesn't help, you can determine authoritatively whether it's a GPU issue by starting Windows in Safe Mode With Networking, which makes the GPU completely unavailable to apps:

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/windows-startup-settings-1af6ec8c-4d4a-4b23-adb7-e76eef0b847f 

 

 

 

K
KM-SWMAuthor
Participant
April 29, 2025

Hi John,

 

After trying these fixes, the issue is still happening.

It is sporadic and does not seem to be triggered by anything specific. Every mouse click I make has the potential to lock up the program. Anything else I can try?

johnrellis
johnrellis
Legend
May 5, 2025

Well, after a few hours of testing in Safe Mode, the problem did NOT occur. Now what? GPU has to be disabled to edit photos?

 

Thanks for your help.


When you run in Safe Mode, the GPU is disabled, but background apps and utilities are also disabled. So the issue is either with your GPU and its driver or with some background utility. 

 

You can troubleshoot the latter by running Task Manager, going to Startup Apps, and then right-click each of the displayed apps to disable them.

 

If it's not an incompatibility with one of the startup apps, then it's the GPU. You could try going to the AMD web site and rolling back to a driver that's 3 or 6 months old.  While it's possible this is a LR bug, LR doesn't code to specific drivers, so it's more likely a driver or hardware issue with the GPU.

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