Lightroom Crashes when Opening Image

Lightroom is an excellent programme for keeping photographs in order and for editing within certain limits. The problem is that it does not contemplate the management of all possible types of configuration. For this reason, we have to act on the configuration to ensure that it avoids generating exceptions that, at best, suggest links to the official documentation.

If you don't feel like spending a third of your life reading all the official documentation at the risk of not solving your problem, I suggest a modification I made for my laptop that helped me avoid crashes when trying to open a photograph.

The first thing to do is to open Lightroom and choose ‘preferences’ from the ‘edit’ menu, alternatively you can choose the key combination CTRL followed by comma. A window will open in which you have to select the ‘performance’ section, switch off the graphics processor completely and apply the changes.

Normally Adobe offers various types of solutions in its links regarding the use of directX, they make you update your video card driver and much more. In my experience, none of this works. I hope this short guide has been of use to you, best regards and see you next time.