P: Liquify Tool Crashes with Assertion Failed! error on all Windows systems

[Damon D Bell]

If the Liquify Tool is used between 475-500 times within the same Photoshop CC 2020 session it gives an Assertion Failed! error and crashes Photoshop.  This is very repeatable and happens on every Windows system in my testing.  I originally reported this back in version 21.2.2.  It is still happening in version 21.2.4.  I never received any reply to the prior post so not sure if anyone from Adobe saw it.

It is easy to recreate this.  Just running a 1 step action with Liquify in a batch process will always crash Photoshop with this error from 475-500 images. This only happens in CC 2020 but not CC 2019.

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[Damon D Bell]

@Mohit Goyal 
@Daniel Presedo 
@J453 

This issue is back again in the latets Photoshop 24.2.0 release on Window 10 and Windows 11.  Same as last time, Mac is not affected.

Since 24.2.0 was released, I've had a bunch of Windows users reporting crashing. I've been able to repeat this on my windows machines and it is very repeatable.

In my testing, to remove my plugins from the equation, I jsut wrote a 1 step Photoshop action to apply a face aware liquify to the image. Then, batch processing the action through the Photoshop Image Processor script, it wil produce the crash.  I've tested this on 24.2.0 and the 24.3.0 beta with the same results. The only difference is that before it was giving the assertion failed error message. This time it just gives the crash report dialog.  Other than that, everythig else is the same and it seems to happen between 400-500 images ran through liquify within a single Photoshop session. 

This doesn't happen on 24.1.1. It started on 24.2.0. I;ve verified on my computer as well quite a few of my plugin users' computers that it just started (again) on 24.2.0.

I am a plugin developer and 3 of my plugins utilize Face Aware Liquify as part of a sequence to determine face position. The plugins then use the face position to auto compose the images.  These 3 plugins are used heavily in volume batch processing my hundreds of professional photographers in the school and youth sports photography industry. So this is a major issue disprupting their volume workflow. It's not a minor issue for them. 

This is the 3rd gtime this issue has popped up. i reported this in CC 2021 and then it was fixed. It came back in CC 2022 and was fixed again. Now it has popped back up in CC 2023.  Can you please take a look at this and see about getting it fixed again? please respond and let me know because this is a major issue for my customers as well as myself because my plugins are dead in the water for Windows right now because of this issue. So this is having a major affect on my business too.

Thanks