Premiere Pro 2025 started to misbehave

[Lawrence5E9E]

I have used Premiere Pro on a Surface Book 2 without any issues for at least five years. I am running Windows 11. My HD space is a little lean at 250GB, and I have 16GB of RAM. The laptop is equipped with an Nvidia GTX 1060 GPU. I use an external drive as my working project folder with over 800GB of free space.  The Creative Cloud suite is the only software installed on the computer at the moment. Since the latest Adobe update a month ago, I started having issues with Premiere. I am building a simple slideshow with 20 photos using a MOGRT I downloaded from one of the services I subscribe to. The MOGRT is only 2 minutes long. When I place the MOGRT on the timeline, Premiere starts running sluggishly and sometimes freezes and closes. I reopen Premier and purge the cache. I then load the project and continue to place the photos in the placeholders, and after 30 minutes, the program starts to misbehave again. After a while, I get a message telling me I am low on resources. It is frustrating because I have never had this problem with previous versions of Premiere working on larger projects. Even while running Photoshop and Audition with Premiere at the same time. My steps are: update all drivers, refresh Windows 11, and install Premiere 2024 version 24.6, which ran flawlessly on this computer up through October of 2024 before the 2025 updates were installed.   Does anyone have any ideas on what is happening? Please?

[Ishan Y]

Hey Lawrence,

I'm sorry to hear about this. Do you see this issue with a specific mogrt file, or does it happen with all files? If you open the mogrt in Premiere Pro 24.6, do you still experience the performance issue? Please also let me know if you've recently installed any third-party plugins or are using any scripts.

Thanks,

Ishan

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[Lawrence5E9E]

@Ishan Y 

I tried three or four different MOGRTs in Premiere Pro 2025. They were similar slide shows but differed in complexity. I downloaded these from two other online services, thinking that the MOGRT was at fault. They all behaved the same. Now that I am running PP 2024, the MOGRT I finally settled on is stable, but running slowly. So far, I have not experienced any crashes or resource warnings; however, I noticed that the CPU is pegged out at 100% and the memory is at or just below 16GB. When rendering or exporting, the Nvidia GPU runs from time to time, but not higher than 30%. The CPU is pegged out and fluctuates, but not lower than 80%. Other applications, including Photoshop 2025, are running smoothly without significantly impacting system resources. I have not installed any plugins aside from the Loopdeck+ surface controller, which runs outside of Premiere. 

[Lawrence5E9E]

UPDATE: Misbehaving PP 2025. As stated before, a variety of MOGRTs affect Premiere Pro regardless of the version. I downgraded from the latest 2025 version to 24.6; PP worked better, with fewer crashes, but it was still laggy. I decided to downgrade to 24.0 and had better luck. No crashes, better performance. I narrowed down the symptom to the MOGRT I was using, which are high CPU and memory-intensive graphics. Since I have been using Premiere Pro on the seven-year-old Surface Book 2 from 2018 until early 2025, I have not had any issues, until now. It may be time to move over to the M4 Pro.