Interface is Slow and Laggy

Yeah, so are indicators on cars, but they become a little pointless when the engine is broken. Definitely came across as sassy. 

There was no sassiness in my response. Accessibility is important for a lot of AE's users. 

I'm sure those users who need accessibility options are really enjoying that they can now see it not working as it should while paying through the nose for it and relying on it for their income. Amazing that you can find sassiness in this car crash of a thread. 

Put and, are putting more people on. I can't guarentee parity, we don't control the OS's, we don't control individual users hardware. We are committed to making it as good as we can. 

And yes you have dark, darkest and light modes because we have users who have accessibility needs that we also want to support. 

@jenkmeister17177426wrote: “...but it is something we are putting people on to work on.”

You mean you PUT people on to work on, yes? Because they’ve already been hard at work all these years fixing this, right? Or is this basically that scene from The Princess Bride?

“...where every ship in my armada waits to accompany us on our honeymoon.”
“Every ship but your four fastest, you mean.”
“Hmm?”
“Every ship but the four you sent.”
“Ah, yes. Yes of course. Naturally not those four.”

In all seriousness, all these years - and this goes back even earlier than this thread’s first post in 2020 because the OG post from an older version of the Forum evaporated when the Forum was migrated over to its current incarnation - and the State of the Art is, “I don't know if we will ever get to parity...”?

Well, at least we have Darkest, Dark, and Light Color Themes.

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We are working on getting Windows to be as smooth as the Mac version. Windows is slower in the released builds due it using older GDI+ drawing routines. The beta build is using Direct 2D and is faster, but still has plenty of other issues that need fixing. On the Mac, AE is using the OS supplied drawing routines and they are significantly faster as you've seen. I don't know if we will ever get to parity but it is something we are putting people on to work on.

@jenkmeister17177426 

I'm using an M2 MacBook Pro on the current job I'm on and the AE interface comparatively flies compared to my Windows computer. Yes even in the current beta.  The CTI is basically glued to my mouse, even on a 4K display. Keyframes basically render at or near 60fps when dragging them around, or fast enough that I'm not questioning the stability of After Effects. 

Resizing panels is shockingly fast, that's always a lag fest on windows. And yes even when installing my standard glut of AE scripts to patch the holes in AEs functionality. 

I get that apple silicon is fast, but a 2080ti shouldn't struggle to draw AEs interface. Again I would point to blender or blackmagic to show examples of software that run fluidly. Do you think AE on Windows will ever reach parity with MacOs or should I just start saving up for a Apple Stuido. 

Well yeah, i know the answer, it was rhetorical, almost, but i'd at least like actual dev responses so I wouldn't have to speculate. If I know it's as bad as I think it is, then I wouldn't have to blame the devs, just the shareholders, managers, and leadership, but at the moment there is a significant lack of clarity and motivation being displayed, and it's frankly disrespectful when paying for it doesn't even let you own this mess. It's unusable because companies require stable versioning for proprietary addons and stable years-long workflows... but they're forced to pay yearly, for the honor of renting buggy software.

The explanation is painfully obvious. 

Adobe are conpletely incapable of fixing these issues at this point. They are either incompetent, under staffed or under funded - or most likely all three

This issue is clearly really deep in old code carried on from the original Cosa software, and Adobe devs can seemingly only achieve add ons at this point. I doubt they even understand the original code. 

If they did, it would have been fixed years ago. 

Happy to be proven wrong, Adobe.