Photoshop CC 2019: Freezing on Blend Mode preview

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Sorry, this is a known bug that we're working on a fix for. In the mean time, you can go o to Preferences/Performance and select Legacy Compositing.

Hi Honor,

What OS are you using and on what type of machine? 

Thanks,
Hannah

Honor this is in the live blend mode preview, right? So not when you've applied the blend mode, but when you're scrolling through and previewing your options?

Has anyone said what the differences are between the new compositing engine and legacy, and what features are enabled/disabled? Other than enabling the application_crash() routine, we know about that one ;)

Hannah: OS is Win10 1803 (1809 will install today) 64 bit (is there still a 32 bit Win10?) 
Type of machine - fairly normal graphics box, I guess? Built on a Dell XPS 8930, i7-8700 3.2GHz, 32GB, GTX 1080 / 8GB.
And, yes, as best I recall, it's when scrolling through, and not yet applied.

I don't really know if you guys want bug reports or not, and I don't know how to reproduce this one, except just to walk away, but I'm also seeing Photoshop freeze solid if I leave it open too long - could have something to do with the machine going into sleep mode or something.

So, I went back to 2018 after this thread, until it moved itself somehow, and I need to re-built my desktop links (don't judge me) then, I used 2019 again last night to see if it was any better (not sure how or why it would be with no updates - but I tried it anyway) and when I wake up my machine this morning, it's frozen solid again.

My first thought was "Is Adobe trying to give PC people the experience of working on a Mac, where stuff just randomly freezes up for no reason?" ;)

I'm not having an issue of PhotoShop 2019 freezing/crashing, but the Liquify preview does not display. In fact, when selecting Liquify, it appears to freeze the motion blur of the new window opening. It does load, but with a fully transparent preview (where I can see the original PhotoShop workspace). Any ideas what's causing this?