Instant Crash - Photoshop - Windows 11

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The exact same issue, RTX2080Ti + Windows 11 (was not an issue prior to either a recent Photoshop version or Windows 11 (can't recall which occurred first).

I played around with the following combination based on PhiDough starting point:

1. Set affinity manually to 13 processors.

2. Photoshop > Preferences > Performance > Untick "Enable multithreaded compositing".

3. Photoshop > Preferences > 3D > Set "Available VRAM for 3D" to 80% instead of 100%.

4. Select Magic Wand tool

After this I finally had some different behaviour!

Instead of hard rebooting, I got an Adobe Crash Report window (which I submitted, not sure if this is important to the final fix). 

After this, I found another suggestion to start Photoshop with "Shift" key down and "Disable optional plugins" during the launch process. Upon doing this I got normal behaviour (no crash reports or reboots). 

Following this, I went and deleted every extension in the Creative Cloud app, and also deleted a bunch of directories in any "UXP" folders I could find (eg Roaming, Program Files > Common, etc). 

I launched Photoshop again and did not perform the Set Affinity step - still no crashes, so I then re-enabled "Use multithreaded compositing" and restarted Photoshop. 

Last five launches are now working fine. I would guess this had at least some root in a corrupt plugin, but like with all "kitchen sink" debugging it's hard to identify the one exact true cause.

Hope this helps.

I have the same problem and have had it since I bought a new computer with Windows 11 pre-installed, meaning I cannot go back to Windows 10. (The computer has all it takes regarding processor, memory, and GPU for running PS). Windows 11 is in all respects better than Windows 10, and all programs other than PS CC are running perfectly, so even if I could, I should not want to change to Windows 10.
Recently there seem to have been some major improvements. PS has become faster, but I'm still not able to resize a picture for saving using alt+i, and it often freezes when I start cropping a picture. Or it just out of the blue tells me that "due to a runtime-failure GPU-acceleration has been deactivated for the remaining time of the session."
Again and again I get the message that there is a solution to my problems. There is not. So far nothing has helped. Only Adobe can solve the problems.
I can also see that Adobe is now going to stop 3D facilities in PS - due to "GPU issues with newest OS", and that 3D shall not come back. 

I wonder if GPU-problems in general have become that big that we shall not expect a well-functioning PS? I so much like PS, but if Adobe cannot promise improvements very soon, I might, after all, be better served with less advanced but stable competition. I have found alternatives, and had it not been for the most recent improvement, I had cancelled my subscription by now. 
Therefore my question: When can I and other customers expect a well-functioning PS, running on Windows 11?

I found a fix.... I tried re-installing - upgrading and every kind of change but it just kept crashing so I went to a preveous backup and just replaced the whole Adobe directory in

C\Users\(your name)\AppData\Roaming\(Adobe).

and renamed the other as a backup, just in case i needed it.  Untill I run all the features I won't know but it let me open py picture from lightroom into photoshop.  Good luck with yours.

I've encountered the same situation,  as soon i've update the OS to Windows 11.

I also send various log, and unistalled and istalled again PS but without any good effect. 😞

If the whole system is crashing it's almost certainly a low level failure (hardware or driver) most likely your GPU. Before opening any files, go to Preferences > Performance... and uncheck Use Graphics Processor. Restart Photoshop. Does the problem persist?

I am not.  I did notice that it was also crashing when I used the object selection tool as well.  It also seems to be "stuttering" as I mouse over some of the other various tools.  I've seen people have stuttering issues in the past, but still can't get it working.

PhiDough, are you running bitdefender by any chance?

This issue is still unresolved.  If anyone happens across a fix, I'd be forever grateful!  I just re-installed 2021 version and it still crashed shortly after using the portrait neural network feature.  I've tried both the nvidia studio driver and the regular driver.  Perhaps I'll try an older driver.

It does seem clear that it is not just a strictly me issue, since Retrogamer is/was having the same issue and was actually able to pinpoint that it seems related to the neural network features.

Any ideas would be appreciated.

I am currently runing a 30 series card too. I am guessing it might be a driver issue, i am running on the default bios.