I go into Program Settings and make sure Photoshop is set to use High-Performance too. I set it to prefer the NVIDIA High Performance over the Integrated Intel one. Still no gold.Įverything keeps pointing to the NVIDIA Control Panel though. Knowing it’s a NEW issue, set it for only results in the Last Week. The ONLY “Detected Graphics Processor” listed was my integrated Intel and any options to change that were greyed-out.īack to Google. What I tried that DID NOT workĮverything says to go into PS and go to Edit > Preferences > Performance and just change it there! No prob! NOPE. Just what I wanted to take the day off to do! NOT. Learned all kinds of stuff I never knew – integrated graphics processors and high performance ones, and why I have both. Photoshop is just unusable.Īs usual, I head to Google. Then, down at the bottom, I noticed it listed my graphic processor as Intel, not the fancy pants one that I always see getting driver updates – NVIDIA.

I had been using PS like nobody’s biz for well over 6-12 months, and I saw there was a graphics driver update just the other day, so I knew none of this was true. When I relaunched Photoshop (PS) I got this error: The whole program would freeze up requiring the good old CTRL+ALT+DEL. The screen was freezing up, showing the opening screen behind my artboard. Late June of 2022, Photoshop suddenly went cray-cray. What happened when Photoshop chose the wrong Graphics Processor This is for folks who can’t get Photoshop to work and just want to get on with their work day! I was out of work for over a day figuring this out, so hopefully this will save someone else in the same pickle. However, people who know the terminology probably don’t need this article. I know I won’t be using the right terminology here forgive me. UPDATE 7/6/22: This problem is NOT resolved! 🙁 Will add details on what fixes it once I find out.

That gives it the little butt kick it needs to start working again. If/when NVIDIA crashes, go to Device Manager > Display adapters – right-click on NVIDIA to “Disable device”, wait a sec, then right-click and “Enable device”. If you need to go back to Chrome, save and exit Photoshop completely. The best solution I’ve found is – Once in Photoshop, STAY in Photoshop. I THOUGHT it was the answer… and NVIDIA just crashed again, rendering Photoshop unusable.

Yesterday, saw the update for Photoshop v.24. UPDATE 10/26/22: Dell determined my graphics card must be bad came and replaced my motherboard… twice but that’s another story.

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