AE 23.1.0 Poor Performance. Timeline/Keyframe lag.

@JohnColombo17100380 and everyone, i can confirm as well that 23.2.1 Runs as smooth as 22.6 now, but my mac still feels better, maybe its promotion effect

It's fixed everyone!!!! let's all raise our glasses to the adobe team!

@JohnColombo17100380 wow thank you so much for the persistence into this! I can't thank you all enough 🙂 

@JBrown321 Glad to hear it! We've already pushed a patch for 23.2 (23.2.1) to the Creative Cloud app, so this is already in non-Beta. 

Without getting too much into the weeds, the issue was simply that the UI was not updating enough/at a high enough frequency. Perhaps a bit anti-climactic, I know. The bigger issue for us was determining why we weren't seeing it and did not catch it in testing—we are remedying that as well.

Cheers,

- John, After Effects Engineering Team 

@JohnColombo17100380  smooth as butter on the new beta!! What magic did you guys do? Oh man I'm so ready for this to come to the non beta version. 

Thank you @JohnColombo17100380 , will try the beta and get back to you! Just out of curiosity I am dying to know what your team discovered as a culprit? 

 

I do recall another employee on here once saying that Mac was the priority for Adobe and their app development, Windows is effectively a port.. is there any truth to this @JohnColombo 

By @Nick2049

No, this is incorrect. We develop natively for each platform and neither is a port of the other. If a feature is lacking on one platform or another, we continue working on it until it reaches parity. Historically, After Effects was originally developed on Mac in the early '90s, but moved to cross-platform components in the late '90s and later on moved to components that we share with many other Adobe apps (which are also cross-platform).

- John, After Effects Engineering Team 

I want to say I've been following this for a minute, and after doing a clean uninstall from the most recent Studio Drivers and a clean reinstall to the Game Ready Drivers, I see modest improvement. Still quite a bit of lag with higher layer count and highly keyframed compositions, but slightly better, in my opinion. With the addition of unchecking View > Show Layer Controls. This was mentioned as a potential fix by others in different posts. However, other members said they tried this without any discernable improvement, so your mileage may vary.

Looking forward to what the next update does in regard to these performance issues we're seeing. Thank you to the AE team for their awareness and communication on these issues!

Oh that's interesting @nilsj65095933 

Would you mind sharing the rest of your spec? I think this will maybe help Adobe move away from investing an NVIDIA issue.

I was actually about to drop a chunk of change on a 7950x / 4090 build but now it looks like I'd be better off just buying a Mac, or finally moving over to Nuke. It's very frustrating for those of us who are stuck using Windows (hard to switch because of other software requirements, i.e. 3ds Max ..sigh)

I do recall another employee on here once saying that Mac was the priority for Adobe and their app development, Windows is effectively a port.. is there any truth to this @JohnColombo17100380