Screen randomly goes black when in lightroom classic
Someone please talk me off the ledge. I have a Dell Precision T3610, six core Intel CPU, 56 GB ram, running the latest Windows 10 with a Nvidia GTX 1050. I make part of my living with photography and spend a lot of time in Lightroom Classic. I'm an Adobe CC user and all my apps are on the latest version.
At random times the screen will go black. The server has not crashed, as if I have something playing in a web browser the sound will continue.
The only solution is to hold the power button in until the power turns off. After boot, the system will work for some random amount of time before the screen goes black again.
I've done a lot of googling on this, and it appears to be a common problem with Lightroom Classic or Photoshop and nvidia graphics cards.
The suggested solutions are often impractical or seem unlikely to affect the problem. (a) update your drivers. The always say to do this. My drivers are the latest available. (b) downgrade video drivers to something or some custom driver. I'm unwilling to do this and I don't believe it's a real solution. (c) Swap out your video cables or use special video cables. I bought and installed the cables recommended, and had the same problem. (d) Turn off graphics acceleration in Lightroom. This works, but it's an unacceptable solution. I work on batches of thousands of photos, and graphics acceleration is a key feature in my workflow. Lightroom Classic is too slow without it.
Besides this being really annoying, I'm concerned that having to hard-reboot my workstation has the potential to corrupt my lightroom catalog.
So as I said, someone please talk me off the ledge. I'm about to dump nvidia and go with ATI, maybe an RX580. Before I do that, is there anything I can do, besides turn off acceleration, which would fix this problem?
