UPDATE CRASH 22.1.1

[Marksbunker]

Photoshop 22.1.1 is unstable and crashes or freezes up, especially when accessing type tool. It's been useless for 2 days now. Please help. I've uninstalled/reinstalled, checked all fonts, (They work in other programs just fine including AI, InDesign, etc) 

When I try to type ANYTHING a font rendering bar pops up and then just crashes. 

Even on a new project, before trying to type anything at all, PS just freezes and sucks up nearly 100% of my resources. 

[Marksbunker]

I switched back to 22.1.0 to resolve the issue until it's safe to update again. 

[Kevin Stohlmeyer]

How many fonts do you currently have active?

[tsatryan]

It should not matter how many fonts are active. This problem appeared with Adobe's update - everything was fine with the previous version. How about just FIX THE PROBLEM rather than blame it on number of fonts.

[Derek Cross]

Please don't be rude, we are volunteers on here.

[tsatryan]

Didn't mean to be rude, and the remarks were not intended for the volunteers or end users. Remark was intended for Adobe, since this problem has been mentioned a number of times, with no resolution seen or even the problem acknowledged. My apologies.

[Derek Cross]

Have you tried resetting the Photoshop preferences, which you can do under the General tab in Photoshop preferences?

Feedback to Adobe can be done here: https://feedback.photoshop.com

[tsatryan]

Yes, I have tried that. No change. 

And, I have reported this over two dozen times now to Adobe....

I am running a new MacBook Pro, running Big Sur 11.1, with 64GB ram and a 4TB ssd. The graphics is an AMD Radeon Pro with 8GB on it.  The issue is not my hardware.

[Kevin Stohlmeyer]

Have you seen this post?

https://helpx.adobe.com/download-install/kb/macos-big-sur.html 

[tsatryan]

Yes. It does not address the issue that I, and others, are having.

[Kevin Stohlmeyer]

Considering Adobe has yet to release a Big Sur update for Photoshop, I would expect some issues until they do. The OP that you are commenting on did not specify if they were on Big Sur so you may be having different issues.

[tsatryan]

Interestingly, Adobe has released an update to Photoshop today that fixes the problem. The release does not have any different number - it is 22.1.1. But, it is obviously a different release, because this one works. The previous one did not. And, there has not been one single change in my hardware.

[Kevin Stohlmeyer]

22.1.1 is new 22.1.0 was the December release.

Here is what was resolved:

https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/kb/fixed-issues.html 

[tsatryan]

Well, how about that! You are right - they did note the problem and fixed it.

That's reassuring, because the Adobe tech support I spoke at length about the issue tried to blame it on my hardware....

[AlinPurcaroiu]

I have a different problem.

I'm just casually retouching using the healing brush and it freezes when I am paning through the image (holding space).

All drivers up to date on nvidia rtx 2060. 

I'm saving a PSD file and then I restart Photoshop to make it work again.