P: Photoshop 26.11 freeze at launch on Reading Brushes & Building Color Conversion Tables

@Adam Jerugim It works the first time, then crashes every time after that.

If you are still expeiencing this hang on launch on Windows, can you please try right-clicking on the app icon and choosing Run As Administrator? Does that allow PS to launch without error? Thanks.

私もGPU合成を無効にしたところ、Photoshopが正常に起動するようになりました。

アドバイスありがとうございました。

@ralftones_8288 I skipped steps 1, 2 and 4 and just disabled GPU compositing and Photoshop is loading fine, thanks for the tip, let's hope Adobe can narrow it down and find a fix for the issue

Hi! I was having the exact same problem here, and after hours trying to figure out what to do without having to reinstall, I followed these steps and it worked for me:

Step 01:
Go to the folder where the file "brushes.psp" is located and make a backup copy of the file somewhere else.

Step 02:
Then, delete "brushes.psp" from the Photoshop folder and run the program — it should open normally.

Step 03:
Go to Preferences > Performance > Graphics Processor Settings > Advanced Settings and disable "GPU composing".

Step 04:
Close the program, copy the "brushes.psp" file back into the Photoshop folder, and run the program again.

Everything should be back to normal. At least for me, it worked 🙂

This is usually where mine hangs up as well, though once it did get through to building brushes. 

I have precisely the same issue. Win 11, 26.10 works fine, 26.11 locks up at the same place when opening. However, 26.11 works fine on my other Win 11 machine. Have no idea what's going on.

I found out that if you disable “GPU Composing Performance,” everything starts normally. I use an RX 7800xt 16gb as my GPU.

I should note that I'm able to launch and use 26.11 on my laptop with no problems at all. I only get this error on my desktop, which ironically has better specs.

There's a bug in there. I've now installed the latest beta version, and it has the same error as 26.11.
What's going on with the programmers at Adobe?