• Troubleshoot Photoshop graphics processing unit (GPU) and graphics driver issues. Photoshop is installed and running. But, when opening any document in Photoshop, it crashes with the error Photoshop cs6 won't launch

    This advice applies to all types of operating systems, the Windows family.

    It often happens that when you install and launch Photoshop, it “works” - without problems. But, as soon as you open any image for editing, Photoshop inexorably displays an error message. It is also important that this problem is present not only in pirated/unlicensed versions of the program, but also in licensed ones. Accordingly, it becomes clear that the problem here is not at all that an unlicensed or licensed version of Photoshop is being used. Often, the Photoshop program crashes due to hardware and software failures of the computer itself. Below, I will give several reasons for such phenomena and the elimination of these phenomena.

    • The first and simplest reason is low system parameters of the computer. That is, your computer does not meet the minimum requirements for normal operation of the Photoshop program. Here, you can find out about the minimum system requirements for the Photoshop program: https://helpx.adobe.com/ru/photoshop/system-requirements.html. If your computer does not fall within these parameters, you may want to think about purchasing a new computer. As an alternative, you can try using the alternative program GIMP: http://www.gimp.org/downloads. This program, unlike the “heavy” Photoshop, will work perfectly even on old computers, and in terms of functionality, it is not much inferior to Photoshop and even has a number of advantages. Of course, if you are engaged in professional photo editing, you cannot do without Photoshop.
    • The second, although not common but also not rare, reason for the crash of the Photoshop program is the use of unlicensed copies of the Photoshop program itself. Although, I wrote earlier that not only pirated/unlicensed versions of the Photoshop program crash, but on pirated assemblies, such phenomena of “bad behavior” occur much more often. Consider using a free trial version of Photoshop, or completely free and legally, you can download older versions (in English) from the Adobe website itself. To access installation files, license keys, and pdf manuals, you must have an Adobe account. Registration is free. You can create an account here: https://www.adobe.com/account/sign-in.adobedotcom.html. Also, don’t forget about the alternative – GIMP.
    • As strange as it may seem to some, one of the common causes of Photoshop freezes and crashes is viruses. Check your computer for viruses using the free and reliable anti-virus utility Kaspersky Virus Removal Tool: http://free.kaspersky.com/ru.
    • Also, as a result of viruses, the use of various “cleaners” and “optimizers” of systems, there are system files that are seriously damaged. Often, such damage occurs in “freshly installed” Windows OS, due to the use of pirated assemblies. It is worth abandoning the assemblies. Their instability has long been proven by practice. If you have damaged Windows OS system files due to viruses and other reasons, check your system for the integrity of all system files. Based on the scan results and if problems are detected, the system will try to restore damaged files. To check and correct damage, use.
    • In my practice, there have been relatively rare cases when the Photoshop program did not want to start, or unexpectedly completed its work, due to the absence of some dll libraries. In this case, an error should be displayed with a message stating that the program cannot continue to work / stops working due to a missing dll ... file (for you, it may be called differently, for example: ffp 23ie .dll). In this case, look here and download the required dll library file. Next, add it to the desired folder. Read more about how to do this at the very end.
    • The culprit of the trouble may be a pirated build of Windows OS. If you have the assembly installed, I advise you to reinstall the system by installing a clean operating system downloaded from the official Microsoft website. To do this, you can use the utility.
    • And finally. A common and even very common cause of problems in the operation of the Photoshop program, which I often encounter, is outdated, missing or damaged drivers for the video adapter. In this case, it is worth updating/installing/reinstalling the drivers for your graphics adapter (video adapter/video card). To do this, you can use a free program that will find the driver needed for your system and video adapter and install it. Program for automatically searching and updating drivers: http://drp.su/ru.

    Conclusion.

    If everything described above does not help you, try going into Photoshop and turning off Open GL acceleration/rendering mode. To do this, select “Editing” - “Preferences/Settings” (in different versions of Photoshop, this parameter is called differently) - “Performance”. In the window that opens, uncheck (if it is checked) opposite the item “Enable Open GL rendering / Enable Open GL hardware acceleration / enable the use of graphics device” (in different versions of Photoshop, this parameter is called differently). Perhaps this is all that can be done.

    Added (02/19/2019)
    If Photoshop crashes when opening JPG and TIFF files, check out this article. The tips from this note will be useful not only to owners of Photoshop CC 2019.

    ...worked and worked and suddenly today Photoshop stopped launching :(.

    At first it loads quickly, but at the “reading text global resources” stage it freezes. You have to cancel the task by pressing “Ctrl+Alt+Del”.

    I tried to restart several times, but every time it hung. I cleaned the registry using RegCleaner and restarted Windows, but it didn't help. I reinstalled Photoshop from the licensed disk (without deleting it, I just did a repair), but unfortunately that didn’t help either. But I still hoped for it.

    It even hurt my heart a little. After all, I need to work. How will I make layouts for my customers?

    Since there was no one nearby, I decided to ask Yandex by typing the query “Photoshop reading text global resources does not start.” And I found something.

    Problem

    When Adobe Photoshop CS2 starts, it freezes when the loading window displays a message Reading Text Global Resources.

    Reason for freezing

    There are suggestions that this problem occurs due to the installation of new non-standard fonts or as a result of changes in Windows text settings. I just installed font smoothing during my last session in Windows.

    There are several solutions. At least three. In the comments, you can write which method helped you cope with this problem (our colleagues who also cannot launch Photoshop at the reading text global resources stage may need this).

    Solution 1 (didn't help me)

    Delete the file “New Doc Sizes.psp” and restart Photoshop.

    Note: The file "New Doc Sizes.psp" is usually located on the disk

    from:/Documents and Settings/[account_username]/Application Data/Adobe/Photoshop/9.0/Photoshop CS Settings.

    When loading, Photoshop will create a new file New Doc Sizes.psp.

    Solution 2 (solved my problem)

    Delete configuration file settings "Adobe Photoshop CS Prefs.psp".

    Solve problems caused by a faulty, unsupported, or incompatible GPU or graphics driver.

    Overview of issues caused by a faulty, unsupported, or incompatible GPU or graphics driver

    If you are experiencing image rendering issues, slow performance, or crashes, it may be due to a faulty, unsupported, or incompatible GPU (also called graphics card, video card or GP) or graphics driver. Specifically, this document provides instructions to resolve the following issues:

    Attention.

    If your graphics card was released after May 2013, you can assume that Photoshop will support your card. Follow these troubleshooting steps

    Update your graphics driver.

    Updating your graphics driver can fix many issues such as crashing, images not rendering properly, performance issues. Obtain new driver versions directly from your video card manufacturer:

    • Graphics drivers are updated through operating system updates. Make sure you have the latest updates for Mac OS by choosing Software Update from the Apple menu or from Updates in the App Store.

    After installing the updates, restart Photoshop. Enable the option by selecting "Settings"> "Performance"> "Use GPU", and repeat the steps that caused the problem.

    Note.

    • Windows Update does not always provide the latest and greatest drivers. You need to go directly to the card manufacturer's website to check for driver updates.
    • Be sure to select the required driver. The names of drivers for laptops are sometimes different from the names of similar drivers for desktop PCs.
    • If you use video adapters from some manufacturers, you will need to update additional software in addition to the video card driver. Please read the update instructions carefully and contact your video adapter manufacturer directly if the instructions are not clear.

  • Check your configured cache levels.

    If you set the Cache Level option in Photoshop Preferences to 1, you may experience performance issues with features that use the GPU.

    Restore the "Cache Level:" setting to its default value, i.e. 4:

    a. Choose Edit > Preferences > Performance (Windows) or Photoshop > Preferences (Mac OS).

    b. Set Cache Level to 4.

    c. Close and relaunch Photoshop.

    After you restart Photoshop, repeat the steps that caused the error.

    Perform a factory reset.

    Resetting the settings returns the GPU to default settings. See Restoring Settings to Defaults for more information.

    After restoring your settings, launch Photoshop and repeat the steps that caused the error.

    Change the drawing mode in advanced options to basic.

    Basic drawing mode uses minimal video memory and enables basic GPU features:

    a. Choose Edit > Preferences > Performance (Windows) or Photoshop > Preferences > Performance (Mac OS).

    b. In the Performance panel, click the Advanced Options button.

    c. Choose Drawing Mode > Basic.

    d. Close and relaunch Photoshop.

    If these steps resolve the issue, return to normal drawing mode. Restart Photoshop and check if the problem occurs again. If it occurs again, return to basic mode.

    For more information about GPU settings and how to optimize them for your workflow, see the Photoshop Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) FAQ.

    Note.

    If you change performance settings to resolve the issue, you must restart Photoshop after each change.

    If you use multiple graphics cards with conflicting drivers, you may experience problems with Photoshop features on your graphics card and features that require the GPU to be enabled. For best results, connect two (or more) monitors to the same graphics card.

    If you need to use multiple graphics cards, remove or disable the less powerful cards. For example, let's say you have 2 different cards that use different drivers - an NVIDIA graphics card and an AMD card. In this case, make sure that Photoshop is assigned a high-performance graphics card and not an integrated graphics card or a card that is designed to save power.

    a) right-click on any area of ​​the Desktop and select “NVIDIA Control Panel”;

    b) click “Manage 3D settings”;

    c) Click "Program Settings" and add Photoshop.exe and sniffer.exe. Select the Priority GPU High-performance NVIDIA GPU.


    1.Installation files for installing filters in FS and PSP

    10 Dll files for all browsers

    You will need to log into your computer administrator account - extract the DLL (don't forget to extract it from the folder! (95x109, 2Kb)) (507x67, 7Kb) Copy and transfer to: C://Windows/System and also to C:// Windows/System32 For Windows 7 64-bit, you should put the DLL C: / / system , system 32 , SysWOW64

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    2.Filters are updated, like versions of programs, but they do not receive updates over the Internet. Therefore, they are not always compatible with our versions of graphic editors - Photoshop and PSP.
    There is a program called "Patch". We just have to download it and use this tiny program to find our filters that do not work in our PSP or PS. THIS PROGRAM IS COMPATIBLE NOT ONLY WITH WINDOWS VERSION 7, BUT ALSO WITH XP,

    Download it. here

    or here.

    AND NOW HOW TO SET UP PHOTOSHOP!

    CHANGE YOUR SETTINGS AS SHOWN ON THE SCREENS!

    The lesson was prepared by Galina Sokolova.

    To configure Photoshop you need to go to the “ Settings", which is called by pressing hot keys CTRL+K or by running the command: Editing - Settings - Basic.

    Step 1

    In the category window "Basic" settings for optimal performance PhotoshopC.S.6 There are parameters that are provided by default, but for greater convenience you can add some settings, for example, I added an option in my settings such as “Zoom with mouse wheel.”

    This setting makes it possible to quickly switch to change the image scale, which is very convenient during detailed image processing, for example, when selecting a complex object, when you often need to zoom in and out of the image.

    Step 2

    Using the interface settings, you can change the appearance of the Photoshop program, for example, by default the Photoshop interface is black, but you can change it to a lighter one: dark gray or light gray.

    You can also disable some options that are provided by default, but are not so important for work, for example, in a group "Border" you can disable options "Shadows" which will allow Photoshop to save its power for more important tasks.

    If the issue of computer power is especially pressing for you, then you can uncheck the box for such an option as "Hints" which will free up additional power, but this is only if you have thoroughly studied all the tools and menus of Photoshop.

    Here you can select the interface language and, of course, I always say that for novice users you should always choose only the Russian language, which will allow you to master Photoshop several times faster than Photoshop with English.


    Step 3

    Thanks to category controls "File Processing" the opening and saving of files is controlled.

    When saving files, a dialog box appears where you need to specify the data to save the image.

    There is also an important option here:

    “Automatically save recovery information - every 10 minutes”

    This installation makes it possible not to lose information if Photoshop crashes and such an installation was not available in earlier versions of Photoshop.

    Another important and very convenient option is “ Save in background", which allows you not to wait until Photoshop saves the file and allows you to continue working while saving the file.


    Step 4

    You can use performance settings to improve your work efficiency. The performance of Photoshop directly depends on the amount of computer memory.

    Group "Memory Usage" has a field "Busy underPhotoshop», in which you can determine in advance what percentage of RAM your Photoshop will use, for example, in my Photoshop this percentage reaches 88%.

    You should not give 100% to Photoshop, as other programs installed on your computer will not have enough RAM.

    In a group "Working disks" The disk on which Photoshop creates temporary files is marked, and it is advisable that Photoshop itself is not located on this disk; such a distribution contributes to a clearer operation of Photoshop.

    In a group “Optimizing caching levels and chunk sizes» option is installed "Action History" which characterizes the depth of the story steps and which can be optimally set to 15-20 steps.

    Characteristics of cache levels is set to the maximum - that is, equal to 8 so that you can work with large-sized images.

    Also Cache chunk size a large one is selected - in my case I chose 1024 kb.

    In a group "GPU Settings" you need to select a tab "Use GPU"- this option is responsible for the operation of important graphic tools in Photoshop.


    In the additional parameters, you need to check the boxes, as shown in the screenshot:


    Step 5

    This category defines the type of mouse cursor that is used when working with images. You can choose the cursor you like to use for your work.


    Step 6

    Using the settings in this category, transparent areas are corrected. Just like cursor settings, the options for transparent areas are for cosmetic purposes, so you'll need to experiment to find the cursor option you want.


    Step 7

    Category settings " Units of measurement and rulers" determine the units of measurement that you will use when working in Photoshop. If you wish, you can use not only pixels, centimeters and millimeters to measure, but also inches, points, picas and percentages.


    Step 8

    Using the settings for this group, you can select the color for guides, grids, and use the setting of intervals between grid lines with a certain number of divisions:


    Step 9

    This category uses External modules, which are installed in Photoshop.

    In order for External Modules to work without interruption, you must check the boxes shown in the screenshot:


    Step 10

    Category "Fonts" allows you to control the mode "Straight quotes" and also use the parameter to control "Sample size for viewing font", which is used in the font menu in the attributes panel and in the palette "Symbol".


    Step 11

    Settings in category "3D" allow you to manage your work environment 3D. In the screenshot you can see what parameters must be set for the environment to work 3 D:


    I hope I answered the question - how configure Photoshop.

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