Photoshop breaks if I try to use my graphics card. (Grey boxes appear, image preview issues, etc)
- February 29, 2024
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This is an issue across all(?) latest versions of Photoshop on Mac and PC. I've been running into major GPU-related issues on my Mac Pro 2013, where images would load up incorrectly tiled, boxes would appear when painting, the view would freeze, and eventually got to the point where I couldn't even see my files anymore when I opened them. I had to bypass my GPU entirely to even see what was going on.
Thinking that my graphics card was out of date and incompatible, I built a new PC using Windows 10 to make sure I wouldn't have hardware limitations. A huge investment and a few days later, and I'm experiencing the same persistent problems, and the latest versions of photoshop (from 24.2-25.5) will ONLY run if I deselect "use GPU".
HOW/WHEN IT HAPPENS:
The issue usually makes itself known when I paint on a Levels Layer mask, which sits underneath a grey layer set to "color" mode. Instead of seeing the brush, I get a series of grey boxes (attached). Changing the zoom level also renders a chunk of the canvas with a grey box overtop. This is just one of a few problems I've been running into, which include flickering/white flashing, boxes around the cursor when hovering over menus, the canvas freezing, and the cursor changing back to a pointer and ignoring the tool settings & not showing any changes when clicking/brushing.
I've been troubleshooting this for three days now and am seriously behind on work as a result.
WHAT I'VE TRIED:
- Uninstalling & Reinstalling wacom drivers, trying older versions instead of the newest ones.
- Uninstalling & Reinstalling NVIDIA graphics drivers, using older versions, alternating between studio and game mode
- Resetting PS preferences, changing all combinations of the following:
- Turning off Multithreaded compositing
- Turning off "Use OpenCL"
- Disabling native canvas
- Using older GPU mode
- Using older versions of Photoshop. Currently PS21 (22.2) is the least glitchy one to use.
I've been using Photoshop since I was a kid and I've never been more upset, frustrated, and disappointed with how broken this program is - these display issues have been persistent but small over the last couple years but now they are rendering the program unsuable. Why did I just drop a few hundred bucks on a graphics card that the current versions of Photoshop can't even use?
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