P: CS6 Slow compared to CS5.1 with large files

it's not just nudging that's slow, that was just the most obvious symptom since i have to watch a progress bar for 5-8 seconds just to move a group with 15 vector/text layers. Using the move tool on a group also requires waiting to see anything redraw. real time preview of resizing objects also seems slow.

about 150 layers, mostly vector/text or small raster images.

troubleshooting: tried the first suggestions in your post up top under known layer issues

OS X 10.7.4

What else is slow?

How many layers are in this document that is slow nudging layers?

Have you done any additional troubleshooting? If so, what?

What OS version are you using?

Either you're seeing something that nobody else is seeing, or something is wrong with your system - and we need to narrow down what is going on.

sorry for the smarm, i'm just really frustrated by this. i'm wasting lots of hours after spending a ton of cash to increase productivity.

can you tell me what specifically I should provide to assist?

Then you need to give more specific steps so we can see if other people can reproduce it, or we can help you figure out what is going on for your system.

The only slowdowns we've seen with layers are listed above, with workarounds.

Beyond that, we've seen corrupt fonts, third party plugins, and some external applications cause odd slowdowns.

yep, read it, tried the workarounds. no help.

Read the post at the top, please.

same problems as most folks. crappy performance on a screaming fast system.

brand new macbook pro retina, SSD, 16gb ram...

opening web design mockups made in CS5, I find something as simple as nudging a group (containing text and a few vector shapes) requires a progress bar.

seriously? a progress bar?! to nudge?! no wonder i usually wait a freakin' year to upgrade to any new adobe products.

You might want to reduce the tile size in Photoshop's preferences. With 8 Gig you might be a little tight, and reducing the tile size can reduce the memory pressure.

First off, congratulations on your new release. Unfortunately, it seems that many of my PS CS5 files are taking a ridiculous amount of time to load in PS CS6. And once the file is open, it seems that many interactions like grabbing and panning with the hand tool is not quickly responsive and taking long. In PS CS5, opening and editing these files was quick and handled anything I did. I'm sure it's not my system resources because I'm running on a new MacBook Pro (OSX 10.7.3) with 8GB of memory.

I consider myself expert level in PS. My layers are 95% Paths and Shapes and 5% Rasters. I work with very large canvases.. anywhere from 2000 x 1000 to even up to 6000 x 2700. But even with my 6000 x 2700 file, CS5 did not have any problems with it. It was fast and responsive. But now it takes forever to open it and do basic things in CS6. I was expecting things to be even faster and more responsive in CS6 but that is not the case... with my files at least. Unfortunately CS6 is can't load fast and keep up with the shortcut keys and actions I want to do and it's becoming a hindrance to my workflow. Any updates or solutions to your product would be appreciated.

There's not one of those already? I know people have been complaining about it for some time over on the Adobe forums.

-Noel