Photoshop Crash, Screen Pixellated

[h3ll0world]

Here's a weird bug, haven't found anything online about it. Photoshop crashed when I was editing a somewhat large blur effect and then my screen just kinda started snowing pixels. Anybody run into this?

I tried editing my display settings and stuff (as you can see by the screenshot) and turning my monitor off and on but nothing's worked yet.

 

[Steve]

You didn't say what version of PS you're using and you already checked for the most current video driver.
In CS6 try going to Edit|Preferences|Performance and UNCHECK Use Graphics Processor
In CS5 and maybe CS4 follow the same path (I think) and UNCHECK Enable OpenGL Drawing

If that doesn't work try resetting the preferences file.
It cures a lot of strange behavior in PS.


Start Photoshop and immediately hold down Ctrl+Alt+Shift (Windows)
or Command+Option+Shift (Mac OS X).


Then, click Yes to the message, "Delete the Adobe Photoshop Settings file?"

 

[Zeealex]

that's not a pixellated screen, those greyish squares are screen artifacts, restart the PC, the graphic card or driver has possibly malfunctioned.

 

[Hoogle]

Yep zee is right thats not photoshop causing that all though was the original cause probably, it is basically you doing a huge edit beyond your video cards capabilities, blur and liquify are killers on lower end cards. so all your virtual gpu memory is overloaded a computer reboot and clear of tempory files should fix it, also check your cables are plugged in properly