P: Crashes When "Dedicate to Graphics Tasks" Is Enabled in NVIDIA Control Panel

Report · Aug 25, 2025

When the NVIDIA Control Panel option "Dedicate to graphics tasks" is enabled, Lightroom (Cloud-Based) crashes upon opening a photo for editing. The application launches normally and the crash does not occur immediately. It happens only after entering the editing module. Disabling "Dedicate to graphics tasks" resolves the issue. This behavior is not documented in Adobe or NVIDIA support resources.

Tested Environments:

Lightroom v8.5
Windows 10 and Windows 11
Multiple NVIDIA graphics cards tested

Report · Aug 25, 2025

Hey, @Eric32433661ok9r. Welcome to the Lightroom Community. Thanks for raising this. I can reproduce this, but I am unsure if it is a bug.

Because, as per Nvidia's documentation (https://adobe.ly/465dkeF),

"NVIDIA Quadro Products

Dedicate to Graphics needs: In this mode, the GPU's resources are used for graphics processing.

Use for Graphics and compute needs (Enable CUDA compute): In this mode, GPU resources are allocated for both graphics as well as compute tasks."

Lightroom also uses GPU compute streams for its GPU-accelerated features and rendering. I've shared this with the team for review to determine whether it's a bug or by design.

Thanks!
Sameer K
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