After a few seconds of using Free Transform, Photoshop stops responding. It doesn't crash - it still looks like it's functioning as the marquee black and white dots still move, buttons respond when I hover over them etc. - but I can't click or interact with anything.
Disabling Anti-Alias Guides and Paths (also suggested there)
Disabling Use Graphics Processor
Updating graphics drivers
Deleting a lot of files to free up disk space
Things that kinda worked:
Windows + E to open up Windows Explorer lets Photoshop respond for maybe half a second. If I mash buttons, I can do a single move in this window, such as Undo, Save, or exit the Free Transform tool (which doesn't unfreeze Photoshop)
Windows + arrow keys to move and resize the window does the same thing
Photoshop is totally unusable because of this and it's driving me crazy.
After some more testing, I have found that Free Transform is not relevant as this issue happens when using a variety of tools including Marquee and Magic Wand, and across different files. Photoshop just locks up after a random amount of time.
I know such vague info isn't particularly useful when it comes to troubleshooting - I'm really not sure what else I can do to diagnose the source of the issue though... The fact that using Windows shortcuts causes it to unlock for half a second seems to be the only real clue.
Processor Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-9750H CPU @ 2.60GHz 2.59 GHz Installed RAM 24.0 GB (23.9 GB usable) System type 64-bit operating system, x64-based processor
The only hard drive is C: which has 178GB free of 952GB.
I've attached a video of the issue happening, with the task manager visible so you can see memory use. After the click selecting the subject's skirt, Photoshop locks up and no amount of clicking will get a response.
I'm facing the same issue, PS version 25.7.0 on Windows 10.
What i found out that, the software is not freeze or crash or unresponded, because when you rollover the tools, the top bar the layers, it's still shown hover effect/caption/highlight, it's just unclickable or no action is able to be done when you click around.
I suspect is some unseenable CTA layer/windows (example: yes, no, cancel etc) is open on top of PS and cause the software unusable unless the layer/window is closed/dismiss.
Photoshop is getting more and more unusable with this kind of irritating bugs, and we paid for the expensive subscription fee! Please fix it!
So I got here by a Google search becasue I'm trying to research an issue that one of our employees is having. His computer would 'freeze up' when using Photoshop. I ended up trying to test as Remote Desktoping in as the user and found that Photoshop worked fine in Remote Desktop.
His computer had been set up a loooong time ago, and I hadn't had anyone else with the error, so I wiped the computer and started over and it has some back a few days later. I suspect it's likely a bug in a recent update, so we'll try rolling back versions until it stops.
So 1) there's likely a bug with recent updates that hasn't been squashed yet and 2) Remote Desktop from a different computer might help as a workaround if you desperately need to save before rebooting.
Having the same issues. After a half dozen actions or so, I'll get the same problem (buttons are hoverable, but not clickable). Not sure what the root cause is, but I've experienced it most commonly using the crop and transform tools.
Not trying to be hyerbolic here, but it is actually unusable at the moment for my work.
Having the same issue, photoshop seems to be fine, icons animate when i hover on, but i cant click anything, this happened when trying to use the perspective crop tool, now i cant do anything after a short time even when starting a new blank job.
Does turning off »Use Graphics Processor« in the Performance Preferences (Photoshop > Preferences > Performance > Graphic Processor Settings) and restarting Photoshop have any bearing on the issue?
tried this and thought it was fixed, switched to pan mode and its stuck. Its several tools doing this, either selecting something, dragging something, cropping, and now panning. It happens at complete random. I Was Using cs6 up until this year, it was bullet proof and never ever crashed, why can't this get fixed? on a windows 10 machine with all the bells and whistles, 16 gb rtx quadro gpu, ryzen 9 5950x with 64 gigs of ram and m.2 drives.
just discovered something, if I go to task manager, there were sub processes, something "edge"? not sure but I decided to close one of them and they all collapsed and all of a sudden I had control of photoshop again. Next time it does this I will screenshot the process name.
ok nevermind. as soon as I went back into the program its locked up again... I can end the sub process being the opened document and it will let me save one of them and then lock up at the save window. bizarre.
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