Freezing in PS CC 2018 after using Camera RAW

[ianj72879037]

Photoshop CC 2018 is working fine when loading JPEG files or previous PSD fiiles. BUT while opening RAW files in Camera RAW and opening a Smart Object in the Camera RAW filter and allowing them to be worked on, in both cases, on re-importing to Photoshop, the program freezes, and the only way out is via closing the program with the Task manger. (Working in Windows 8.1) Similarly, Adobe Bridge freezes after opening a file in Camera RAW and then trying to use the file or open it elsewhere.  No problems before upgrading to the 2018 version.

[DelphiZoa]

This is probably a silly question, but have you double checked the Creative Cloud desktop app Apps tab to see if there's an update available for Camera RAW?

[TrolettiPhoto.com]

I have the exact same problem. Upgraded everything today to the latest versions through the Adobe Creative Cloud app. Photoshop CC 2018 works fine. If I call camera raw as a filter it will freeze up when I close camera raw.

[TrolettiPhoto.com]

I have a fix that worked for me.

My first reaction was to deactivate de video card acceleration in Photoshop. That didn't help...

I then found that I can deactivate the same feature for Camera Raw in Bridge.

Go to BRIDGE - EDIT - CAMERA RAW PREFERENCES

All the way at the bottom you will find PERFORMANCE. Uncheck USE GRAPHICS PROCESSOR.

Hope it works for you as well as it did for me...

[mwschaff]

As TrolettiPhoto.com suggested I unchecked "Use Graphics Processor" in Bridge.  Once I did this the problem disappeared.

[davidh10178012]

Thanks for tip   ... used your suggestion and problem solved :

[myhobbies]

It worked for me

[ziyodat23045627]

It worked for me, Thank you!

[helenal27459235]

Yes - at last! A fix that worked. Thank you so much

[Perer Turnbull]

Had the same issue. Following advice given in an earlier thread, but using Bridge, - go to Edit/Preferences/Camera Raw and uncheck "Use Graphics Processor"  Worked for me too

[Perer Turnbull]

further to my advice. I have the issue in Photoshop cc 2018, not Lightroom. In lightroom if you choose Edit in "Photoshop cc 2018, light room opens a tiff file in Photoshop, so there is no problem - you need to change the preferences in Photoshop, not Lightroom, if you are having the problem in Photoshop. I never had a problem like that in Lightroom cc Classic so I can't say there.

[thenativecreative]

You rock! Been struggling with this for ages!!

[benjamint16602330]

This was very helpful thank you. I was just wondering does doing this process limit any of the camera raw capabilities?

[davescm]

No. You may notice a processing speed difference on a very high pixel count screen, but no features are lost.

Dave

[yossigivoni]

works also on camera raw 11 and photoshop 2019

[Dotoki2]

Thank you, TrolettiPhoto!
Works for PS CC 2019 and ACR 11.4.1.291 too.

[DelphiZoa]

See also the correct answer on this discussion: PS 2018 Open Image hangs.

[mtknot]

Disabling acceleration doesn't work.

I am running on a Surface Pro 4, and this bug is repeatable on multiple Surface Pro devices that I own.

Downgrading does squat. I've fresh installed windows again with CC 2017, and it still doesn't work!!!

I suspect the current ver. of Camera Raw is at fault, but can't seem to find anywhere to obtain a downgraded version of Camera Raw.

[robm59390676]

What helped me was to do an alt-control-shift when starting photoshop.  I then reset my preferences and it worked.  I had tried reinstalling everything, disabling he acceleration, etc. and it didn't work.

Rob

[Adorable_expert5E04]

I have found the solution!

In Preferences there are two areas where you can disable the GPU. I had previously tried disabling the GPU in the Photoshop preferences, but it had no effect - and I didn't really want to do that because I wanted the benefit of it in Photoshop. You can still leave the GPU enabled in the main Photoshop performance settings.

Go to Preferences>Camera Raw. At the bottom of that window there is a box headed Performance where you can enable/disable Graphics Processor. Disable it. Problem solved!

[GoRogue2014]

ive disabled the graphic processor in Lightroom but it did not solve my issue.

[keldn18641657]

ive also disabled the graphic processor in Lightroom but it did not solve my issue.

[johng39746522]

Camera Raw Preferences (Version 10.2.1.895)

Preferences>Camera Raw>Performance and unchecked Use Graphics Processor. Restart and it works. Quick and easy, very nice. Thank you.

[diwakar833]

Thank you so much, It works

[PhotoshopBug]

This works