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May 17, 2022
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Photoshop directx error

  • May 17, 2022
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I have a fresh install of photoshop on my laptop, and I get the following error when I start up, It warns of  outdated graphics drivers and says that directx is unavalible. but I updated all the avalable drivers yesterday, and when I run dxdiag, it shows that directx 12 is installed and no problems found.

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Participating Frequently
August 1, 2022

Been a while, Huge new update to whoever finds this thread while Googling/searching and stumble onto this thread. Thanks to the help to the others in this thread, the silver lining of this is as follows:

if you desperately need to run photoshop on a w520 laptop, update the internal gpu drivers, and boot into internal graphics only. I am still working on a way to run photoshop with the Nvidia card enabled. 

 

Legend
May 17, 2022

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.

Participating Frequently
May 17, 2022

the menu is greyed out - I can't use the menues because photoshop chrashed as soon as I close the compadibility report

Ged_Traynor
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Community Expert
May 17, 2022

The Intel i7 2760qm has an Intel HD 3000 GPU

Ged_Traynor
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Community Expert
May 17, 2022

Hi

What exact GPU do have on your system

https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/system-requirements.html

Participating Frequently
May 17, 2022

Quadro 1000m

Ged_Traynor
Community Expert
Community Expert
May 17, 2022

That GPU was released in 2011 so it's pretty old, also you more than likely have dual GPU's on the laptop, see sections 7 and 8 from the below

https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/kb/troubleshoot-gpu-graphics-card.html#Troubleshoot