ACR/Lightroom GPU Acceleration

[Ron Scubadiver]

After an update of my Nvidia graphics drivers on Windows GPU acceleration on ACR started to produce strange looking tiles.  It turns out all Nvidia drivers after 368.xx are incompatible.  I had not updated my driver in a while, but it became incompatible with recent updates to Windows 10.  The situation is unfortunate because this has been going on since July with many updates to Nvidia drivers and a few to ACR.

Solutions:
1.  Disable GPU acceleration.
2.  Roll back the driver.

I am surprised this has not been solved in 4 months considering how many people this must effect.  Perhaps GPU acceleration is not the moon and the stars.

[Erik Lund]

Thank you for the heads up.

I have not had any issues,,,

[Ilkka Nissilä]

I haven't had issues on the use of GPU on my new computer (purchased this summer). I do recall that  with my old computer the ACR  in PS CC 2015 crashed  a couple of times and reported that the GPU use has been turned off due to a problem. However, it only happened a couple of times and those were some time ago (in 2015). I assume the problem was corrected somewhere (either in the driver, or in PS, or both).

I don't think the problem is with GPU computation per se, but simply the implementation. GPUs are becoming increasingly important in scientific computing.

[Thomas G]

I do see strange tiles occasionally when using the clone and heal tool. Win 10. Workaround is to reset clone and redo the work in a slightly different manor.

[Akira]

I have no problem with my on-chip GPU of Core i5 (Skylake).

My friend also uses an NVIDIA video card and experienced the same problem.  He says that LR works faster after disabling the acceleration.