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Adobe Photoshop Not Responding Very High Power Usage

Forum|Forum|4 years ago
June 22, 2021
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Several people have asked the same question (or variant) that I am asking below and it never really gets answered completely or resolved and then the threads are locked so no one can ask for more clarification or help.

I checked task manager and it says that shows that Adobe Photoshop has VERY HIGH POWER USAGE, and it says that cpu and memory are both under 30% utilization.

Crash or freeze

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Paari_GD

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Hi All,

Keep these settings, it should solve the issue

and don't worry if some of the settings are grayed out at step 8

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James27328820buxu

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Check for a Known issue in Photoshop.
Force quit and restart Photoshop or restart your computer.
Update Photoshop to the latest version.
Reset Photoshop's preferences.
Troubleshoot GPU and graphics driver.
Keep your macOS or Windows operating system up to date.

Greetings,
James

djuncheg117156386

Inspiring

Same thing on 24.1 - still happen some time. Great job, Adobe, very stable product quality - very same bugs for years.

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P Stone

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ooooo.... damn... has this been fixed? Using the latest as of 3-12-2022 and PS is hosed. Opened a simple file I was working on yesterday and it's busted. Very High CPU for ZERO reason.

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P Stone

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Opening the file, it's fine for 5 seconds, then the screen blackens, blinks, recovers and the PS playing field is hosed and hung up. Problem with playing nice with NVidia drivers I'm guessing.

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Edwin22324857p2gu

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i have same problem and it always freeze i can move the cursor but i cannot click any function or save the file im working on

.it persistent in version 2020 2021 2022 i try them all and its there .it happen when i select a portion of my canvas and drag it to another canvas it freeze .

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there is no way out but to force to end process and restart photoshop and lossing your work.

very annoying.

i know you are gonna ask for my cpu spec. and blame it because its not cutting edge. but if other high end computer experience this then something is wrong here .

Kevin Stohlmeyer

Community Expert

Is there a problem with your computer that this is a concern?

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Cailey0D44Author

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Thank you for your reply. There is nothing wrong with my computer, and there were so many people in the same situation as me. Some people replied with some methods, but none of them worked. [links removed]

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