Photoshop Crashing

[Pano_Products]

I have been using Photoshop for a bit now. Prior to the recent update, I never had a single issue with running Photoshop. I am not sure of the version, but the prior startup photo was a parrot. This version is a person in a rainbow dress with clouds behind?

Anyways, immediately upon my computer updating to the latest Photoshop I have been having nothing but crashing issues. On both my laptop and my gaming PC. My gaming PC has an Nvidia 16gb graphics card, and 16gb of RAM. My keyboard displays the RAM usage. Gaming on Baulders Gate 3 I only ever get up to around 75% of my RAM usage. This new photoshop update now always has me sitting at 85-90%. Once it spikes to 95%, Photoshop crashes and I lose all my work. I thought that maybe it was a driver issue but everything is fully updated with my Intel center. And since my TUF laptop starting having the exact same crashing issue since this new update?? It must be this update.

How is it that my PC never crashes when gaming at full graphics, but yet Photshop crashes on me like 5x a day? The program is obviously using too much memory.

[AxelMatt]

Do you get an error message? If yes, please post the message word-by-word.

Do you get an crash report? If yes, do you've send this to Adobe?

Please provide a copy of your 'System Info'. This can be get from the Photoshop menu item Help > System Info. There's a copy button in the System Info dialog. Press this button and paste the info into your next forum post.

[D Fosse]

Crashing is nearly always GPU-related, and the most common reason for crashing is conflicting dual graphics. That's mostly a problem with gaming systems and/or laptops. Gaming has very different requirements from the hardware. The general advice is to disable the integrated GPU in the operating system.

Each new version relies increasingly on the GPU, and new graphics code can bring out latent problems.

The system info should shed some light on that. In the meantime, also try a complete reset of preferences. Move the whole Photoshop 2026 Settings folder to your desktop so a new one can be built*. The preferences contain the whole application configuration, not just your own user settings. Corrupt preferences usually look like application bugs and are often mistaken for that.

As always, save out your custom actions, brushes etc first.

(*Users > Your Name > Appdata > Roaming > Adobe > Adobe Photoshop 2026 > Adobe Photoshop 2026 Settings)

[hannam72286915]

I have this same problem at the moment and I wrote it also in here:

https://community.adobe.com/t5/photoshop-ecosystem-bugs/ram-overload-and-out-of-memory-ram-errors/id...

So at the moment I think that the cause at least in my case is this, I have NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti graphics card and there is a memory leak issue with the graphic gard and camera raw version 18.0. Why an earth there isn't any older camera raw version I can install. Or if I revert back to the older photoshop versions, the older camera raw version follows? So now I just wait that this gets fixed or I buy a new graphic card.

[AxelMatt]

@hannam72286915 

Do you have try to deactivate the GPU support as @D Fosse wrote?

Please also provide a copy of your 'System Info' as I mentioned in my former answer. This can be get from the Photoshop menu item Help > System Info. There's a copy button in the System Info dialog. Press this button and paste the info into your next forum post.