Lightroom Classic crashing

So about 6 months ago i bought a fairly decent spec Windows laptop mainly for photo editing but loads of other stuff.

32gb RAM – Lenovo Yoga

The issue i seem to be having and cannot resolve is when i am using Lightroom Classic it invariably crashes or has a forced shutdown of the program. Now I’m not a massively heavy user of photoshop and have no other programs running at the same time. Everything is up to date Adobe wise. Files are standard Sony RAW fiiles.

I have tried to resolve through the usual googling but I’m at a loss.

Any ideas are welcome.

Cheers

Seems normal for Adobe software in my daily experience unfortunately!

Some things to try…

Turn off use of the graphics processor in preferences -> performance. If that makes a difference you may need to update graphics drivers or get the intel driver package rather than the lenovo one.

You could try clearing your lightroom preview cache. Means you will need to rebuild any previews for collections you are working on.

You could also try a new catalogue. Make a backup of your lightroom catalogue from within the program. Then rename your main catalogue to something with a different file name and extention (will currently be lrcat).FInally copy your newly created backup to your catalogue location and open lightroom from that file. Might be enough, or you may have to make a brand new catalogue and then follow the process to merge your existing one.

Messing with catalogues is scary stuff. Back it up multiple times before touching it!!!

Second what Rikk suggests, turning off the GPU in Lightroom preferences usually fixes things

Nice one, thanks for the suggestions. I’ll try that tonight!

I had this with Lightroom on a laptop, I resolved it by taking it to buts and hauling a massive dust bunny out of the heat sink assembly.

Worth taking a look at adobe’s checklist too before messing w catalogs I reckon

https://helpx.adobe.com/uk/lightroom-classic/kb/troubleshoot-crash-or-freeze.html