Could not use brush tool because of a program error

[Pinsukka]

"Could not use brush tool because of a program error" <- This error keeps popping up when I'm drawing with a stylus on touch screen. It happens with both the brush and eraser tools very often and it's really ruining my workflow. What's causing this to happen? It doesn't happen with mouse.

[Mylenium]

Without exact system info, including what stylus is used and all that nobody can tell you much. As a start I'd check the tablet/ stylus settings. Perhaps it's simply set too sensitively and registers a lot of phantom double-clicks or similar and that throws off PS. Likewise of course check your hardware acceleration prefs and relevant brush and cursor settings.

Mylenium

[Pinsukka]

I'm using Surface Pro 8 i7 16GB/256GB with Slim Pen 2. I'll try fiddling with sensitivity settings and see if that does anything, thanks!

[Pinsukka]

Sensitivity didn't really do anything to aid the situation. I checked the perfomance preferences but found nothing obvious wrong there either. What should I look for in terms of brush settings?

[CoryShubert]

Hi @Pinsukka sorry you are seeing this.

When did this error start, what changes have happened to your computer, ie OS, etc?  As @Mylenium mentioned, it may help if we could see your Photoshop System Info. Launch Photoshop, and select Help >System Info...and copy/paste the text in a reply.  

Thank you,

[Pinsukka]

@CoryShubert Sorry for the late reply. There hasn't been any particular changed that I could think of, except that it's just cuouple of months old new Surface Pro 8. Previously I have used Photoshop on a bit beefier desktop PC but also on late 2016 MB Pro with older Intel i5, but I never had any problems on Mac either besides general slowness.

Here's the system info:

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BMP 23.4 - from the file “Standard MultiPlugin.8bf”
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Cineon 23.4 - from the file “Cineon.8bi”
Clouds 23.4 - from the file “Clouds.8bf”
Color Halftone 23.4 - from the file “Standard MultiPlugin.8bf”
Colored Pencil 23.4 - from the file “Filter Gallery.8bf”
Conté Crayon 23.4 - from the file “Filter Gallery.8bf”
Craquelure 23.4 - from the file “Filter Gallery.8bf”
Crop and Straighten Photos 23.4 - from the file “CropPhotosAuto.8li”
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Crosshatch 23.4 - from the file “Filter Gallery.8bf”
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Dark Strokes 23.4 - from the file “Filter Gallery.8bf”
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Dicom 23.4 - from the file “Dicom.8bi”
Difference Clouds 23.4 - from the file “Clouds.8bf”
Diffuse Glow 23.4 - from the file “Filter Gallery.8bf”
Displace 23.4 - from the file “Standard MultiPlugin.8bf”
Dry Brush 23.4 - from the file “Filter Gallery.8bf”
Entropy 23.4 - from the file “statistics.8ba”
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Fresco 23.4 - from the file “Filter Gallery.8bf”
Glass 23.4 - from the file “Filter Gallery.8bf”
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Neon Glow 23.4 - from the file “Filter Gallery.8bf”
Note Paper 23.4 - from the file “Filter Gallery.8bf”
NTSC Colors 23.4 - from the file “NTSC Colors.8bf”
Ocean Ripple 23.4 - from the file “Filter Gallery.8bf”
OpenEXR 23.4 - from the file “Standard MultiPlugin.8bf”
Paint Daubs 23.4 - from the file “Filter Gallery.8bf”
Palette Knife 23.4 - from the file “Filter Gallery.8bf”
Patchwork 23.4 - from the file “Filter Gallery.8bf”
Paths to Illustrator 23.4 - from the file “Standard MultiPlugin.8bf”
PCX 23.4 - from the file “PCX.8bi”
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Pixar 23.4 - from the file “Pixar.8bi”
Plaster 23.4 - from the file “Filter Gallery.8bf”
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Pointillize 23.4 - from the file “Standard MultiPlugin.8bf”
Polar Coordinates 23.4 - from the file “Standard MultiPlugin.8bf”
Portable Bit Map 23.4 - from the file “PBM.8bi”
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PRC 23.4 - from the file “U3D.8bi”
Radial Blur 23.4 - from the file “Standard MultiPlugin.8bf”
Radiance 23.4 - from the file “Radiance.8bi”
Range 23.4 - from the file “statistics.8ba”
Render Color Lookup Grid 23.4 - from the file “Export3DLUT.8be”
Reticulation 23.4 - from the file “Filter Gallery.8bf”
Ripple 23.4 - from the file “Standard MultiPlugin.8bf”
Rough Pastels 23.4 - from the file “Filter Gallery.8bf”
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ScriptingSupport 23.4 - from the file “ScriptingSupport.8li”
Shear 23.4 - from the file “Standard MultiPlugin.8bf”
Skewness 23.4 - from the file “statistics.8ba”
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Solarize 23.4 - from the file “Solarize.8bf”
SP Substance Suite NO VERSION - from the file “MaterialSuite.8li”
Spatter 23.4 - from the file “Filter Gallery.8bf”
Spherize 23.4 - from the file “Standard MultiPlugin.8bf”
Sponge 23.4 - from the file “Filter Gallery.8bf”
Sprayed Strokes 23.4 - from the file “Filter Gallery.8bf”
Stained Glass 23.4 - from the file “Filter Gallery.8bf”
Stamp 23.4 - from the file “Filter Gallery.8bf”
Standard Deviation 23.4 - from the file “statistics.8ba”
Substance Filter NO VERSION - from the file “MaterialFilter.8bf”
Sumi-e 23.4 - from the file “Filter Gallery.8bf”
Summation 23.4 - from the file “statistics.8ba”
Targa 23.4 - from the file “Standard MultiPlugin.8bf”
Texturizer 23.4 - from the file “Filter Gallery.8bf”
Tiles 23.4 - from the file “Standard MultiPlugin.8bf”
Torn Edges 23.4 - from the file “Filter Gallery.8bf”
Twirl 23.4 - from the file “Standard MultiPlugin.8bf”
U3D 23.4 - from the file “U3D.8bi”
Underpainting 23.4 - from the file “Filter Gallery.8bf”
Vanishing Point 23.4 - from the file “VanishingPoint.8bf”
Variance 23.4 - from the file “statistics.8ba”
Water Paper 23.4 - from the file “Filter Gallery.8bf”
Watercolor 23.4 - from the file “Filter Gallery.8bf”
Wave 23.4 - from the file “Standard MultiPlugin.8bf”
WIA Support 23.4 - from the file “WIASupport.8li”
Wind 23.4 - from the file “Standard MultiPlugin.8bf”
Wireless Bitmap 23.4 - from the file “WBMP.8bi”
ZigZag 23.4 - from the file “Standard MultiPlugin.8bf”

Optional and third party plugins: NONE

Duplicate and Disabled plugins: NONE

Plugins that failed to load: NONE

Unified Extensibility Platform - Extensions:

Home Screen (Loaded) 5.11.0.25 - from the file "C:\Program Files\Common Files\Adobe/UXP/Extensions\com.adobe.ccx.start-5.11.0\"
CDO: 1.120.0
CmdN: 1.11.2
CDP: 1.143.0
Projects: 1.3.10
Loaded at: 221 ms - launch time impact: 31 ms
Content Credentials (Loaded) 0.30.6.0 - from the file "Required Folder"
Loaded at: 6962 ms - launch time impact: 0 ms
ccx-timeline (Prepared) 2.6.41.0 - from the file "Required Folder"
CCX Commenting UXP Webview (Loaded) 23.5.1.0 - from the file "Required Folder"
Loaded at: 6962 ms - launch time impact: 0 ms
CCX Sharesheet UXP (Prepared) 23.6.0.0 - from the file "Required Folder"
Share Panel (Loaded) 1.0.0.0 - from the file "Required Folder"
Loaded at: 233 ms - launch time impact: 0 ms
CC Libraries Panel (Prepared) 3.19.237.0 - from the file "C:\Program Files\Common Files\Adobe/CEP/Extensions\CC_LIBRARIES_PANEL_EXTENSION_3_19_237\"
CAPTURE: 2.0.34 STOCK: 4.0.2
Photoshop UXP Export-As (Prepared) 5.8.11.0 - from the file "Required Folder"
Photoshop In App Messaging (Loaded) 2.7.5.0 - from the file "Required Folder"
Loaded at: 6963 ms - launch time impact: 0 ms
Photoshop Selection Feedback (Prepared) 0.5.0.0 - from the file "Required Folder"
Plugins Panel (Prepared) 1.4.3.0 - from the file "Required Folder"
IC popup message (Loaded) 1.0.0.0
Loaded at: 5189 ms - launch time impact: 0 ms
Multilayer Protection (Loaded) 1.0.0.0
Loaded at: 5189 ms - launch time impact: 0 ms
Photoshop Cloud Value Dialog (Loaded) 1.0.1.0 - from the file "Required Folder"
Loaded at: 6598 ms - launch time impact: 0 ms
Discover Panel (Loaded) 2.7.0.20 - from the file "Required Folder"
Loaded at: 7014 ms - launch time impact: 22 ms
Neural Filters (Registered) 1.12.2.0 - from the file "Required Folder"

Extensions:

Libraries 1.0.0 - from the file “C:\Program Files\Common Files\Adobe\CEP\extensions\CC_LIBRARIES_PANEL_EXTENSION_3_19_237\index.html”
com.adobe.stock.panel.licensing-embedded 1.0.0 - from the file “C:\Program Files\Common Files\Adobe\CEP\extensions\CC_LIBRARIES_PANEL_EXTENSION_3_19_237\extensions\stock-panel-licensing\index.html”
com.adobe.capture.extension 1.0.0 - from the file “C:\Program Files\Common Files\Adobe\CEP\extensions\CC_LIBRARIES_PANEL_EXTENSION_3_19_237\extensions\capture\capture.html”
Export As 4.8.15 - from the file “C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Photoshop 2022\Required\CEP\extensions\com.adobe.photoshop.crema\index.html”
Export As 4.8.15 - from the file “C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Photoshop 2022\Required\CEP\extensions\com.adobe.photoshop.crema\index.html”
com.adobe.cclibraries.manager 1.0.0 - from the file “C:\Program Files\Common Files\Adobe\CEP\extensions\CC_LIBRARIES_PANEL_EXTENSION_3_19_237\manager.html”

Installed TWAIN devices: NONE

[Pinsukka]

@CoryShubert I tried providing you with the System information, but for some reason the reply gets deleted when I do?

And nothing has really changed, besides the system itself and the fact that I'm using Slim Pen 2 instead of mouse. Been using Surface Pro 8 for couple of months, replacing my Windows desktop and late 2016 Macbook Pro (neither of which had this problem).

[CoryShubert · Accepted solution]

Thank you for the systinfo @Pinsukka , a couple things we notice.  You should not set the memory allocated to Ps over 70%, you have yours set to 100%. Also, your video drivers are a couple months old, if there is an update, you should do that.

Go to Preferences > Performance... and uncheck Multithreaded Compositing - and restart Photoshop. Does the problem persist? 

(Masks) - Go to Preferences > Performance... click Advanced Settings... and uncheck "GPU Compositing" - then restart Photoshop. Does the problem still occur? 

Thank you,

[Pinsukka]

@CoryShubert Setting RAM usage to 70% and unchecking Multithreaded Compositing seems to have helped. At least I wasn't able to reproduce the error with quick 5 minutes of testing; previously the error happened multiple times within similar time frame.

Thanks man, you are a life saver!

[Pete.Green]

@Pinsukka, 

Curious if a reset of the preferences helps with this for you?

https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/using/preferences.html#Manually
If that doesn't solve it, you can quit Photoshop and put the Settings folder back.

Do you still get the program errors if you use a mouse instead of the stylus?

Let us know!

Regards,

Pete

[Pinsukka]

@Pete.Green Manually resetting preferenced didn't help. It only happens with sylus (Slim Pen 2). The only thing I have found out to somewhat aid the situation (but doesn't completely fix the problem) is to use "High Performance" power settings in Windows instead of "Recommended". It cuts down the frequency of the errors a lot, but it still happens quite often.