Problem with Liquify tool
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Hello,
I am confused that the Liquify tool has been broken for such a long time, more than a year. At least for me. I do not know, if there is a compatibility problem with my Lenovo Thinkpad laptop, but this really gets me upset that there is still no fix to this. After all I am paying for a software that should be working right.
The problem with the Liquify tool is the following. I can make changes to the image with Liquify tool, but I cannot press "OK" to save the changes and continue working with the image. Pressing "OK" makes Photoshop crash - it ends up making an never ending Error loop that forces me to press Ctrl + Alt + Delete to open the Task Manager and shut down Photoshop. There is no other way to get rid of the never ending Error pop-up window.
I would think this kind of failure/bug would have been corrected in no time, as Liquify is quite an important tool. At the same time I know from photographers' community that other people do use Liquify tool normally. If there is some settings I should change in my Lenovo laptop to make it work I would like to know. It just feels so weird and unfair that there is no fix to this tool and I have been waiting patiently for a fix for more than a year, since I purchased Photoshop.
Hoping for an answer and a fix to this problem,
Tuisku Jarva
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Try the following:
- Go to Preferences/Technology Preview and check "Disable Native Canvas" - Restart Photoshop.
- If you hold down the Alt key when you select Filter > Liquify... does it work correctly without crash?
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Another detail:
Engineering has identified a problem with this specific driver version.
Vendor name: NVIDIA
Driver date: 2022-12-22 000000.000000-000
Driver age: 1 month
Driver version: 31.0.15.2802
Try rolling back from the latest drivers to the November release: https://www.nvidia.com/download/driverResults.aspx/194380/en-us/
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@J453 Strange, OP's message predates that driver version...
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See also this post from June...
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Hi,
I have tried everything you said, but it is still crashing 😞
I also went through the long discussion about the same problem you linked, and no luck there either. I did not try turning off the GPU, I don't know so much about computers so I don't know how and also the idea of doing that kind of scares me, because I don't know all the complications of doing that.

