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

On my Mac Pro 10.8.2 with 16GB of RAM and the ATI Radeon HD 5870.....my performance on Photoshop CS6 is still awful. Even the interface is laggy in places.

-Kevin

We are working closely with all the GPU vendors to make sure their drivers continue to improve. But we don't control their code, testing, or release schedules.

Yes, the multiple cursor problem was an NVidia driver bug (fixed ages ago now).

We have identified the cause of some of the problems discussed here (layers palette drawing, snap to layer bounds, etc.), and could not reproduce some of the other problems (which are likely due to something system specific).

Ditto. Also I'm seeing some things that suggest that part of the problem is due to Adobe and NVidia not coming together better. I use other software that forces me to keep up with the latest drivers, but it seems PS CS6 Extended is faster and smoother with old drivers. Things like the circle around the eraser brush no longer showing (since PS CS 3 Extended actually, still happens in 3 which I use at my office). I'm no tech but seems to be related to drivers.

I can't switch to any other brand than NVidia and who would want to anyway.

Is this sluggishness happening mainly to those using NVidia Drivers?

Hello Chris,
Any ideas on when the sluggishness in nudging is going to be fixed?

Hello Adobe,

I too have the slow down issues, changing my prefs to tall and fat did the trick! back in cs5.5 i changed them but couldn't remember to what. once I changed them in cs6 things seem to run fine! (not the same but a lot better!)

another thing i tried was 100% ram, that too sorted the problem, but that's probably not the best thing to do 😮

No, it is simply documenting bugs and issues found since the application shipped, some of which are already fixed.

does this mean we all paid money to work more slowly?

No idea offhand, you haven't provided any information about why the update won't install. But if you moved or deleted application files, that might prevent the update from installing. You need to contact Customer Support, and give them information about the exact error you're getting from the updater.

Hi, Chris,

A couple of weeks ago, I posted a note on this board saying that I downloaded the update but that it would not install and asked that I call someone at Adobe.

Do you have any advice as to why I was not able to install this upgrade?

I've PS13.0.1 x64. Slower than cs5.1 in almost evry reation: drawing, moving object, applyng/deapplying masks, handling etc

System info:

Adobe Photoshop Version: 13.0.1 (13.0.1 20120808.r.519 2012/08/08:21:00:00) x64
Operating System: Windows 7 64-bit
Version: 6.1 Service Pack 1
System architecture: Intel CPU Family:6, Model:10, Stepping:7 with MMX, SSE Integer, SSE FP, SSE2, SSE3, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, HyperThreading
Physical processor count: 4
Logical processor count: 8
Processor speed: 3411 MHz
Built-in memory: 16359 MB
Free memory: 13062 MB
Memory available to Photoshop: 14736 MB
Memory used by Photoshop: 50 %
Image tile size: 128K
Image cache levels: 4
OpenGL Drawing: Enabled.
OpenGL Drawing Mode: Normal
OpenGL Allow Normal Mode: True.
OpenGL Allow Advanced Mode: True.
OpenGL Allow Old GPUs: Not Detected.
Video Card Vendor: NVIDIA Corporation
Video Card Renderer: Quadro 600/PCIe/SSE2
Display: 1
Display Bounds:= top: 0, left: 0, bottom: 1080, right: 1920
Video Card Number: 1
Video Card: NVIDIA Quadro 600
OpenCL Version:
Driver Version: 9.18.13.593
Driver Date: 20120818000000.000000-000
Video Card Driver: nvd3dumx.dll,nvwgf2umx.dll,nvwgf2umx.dll,nvd3dum,nvwgf2um,nvwgf2um
Video Mode: 1920 x 1080 x 4294967296 colori
Video Card Caption: NVIDIA Quadro 600
Video Card Memory: 1024 MB
Video Rect Texture Size: 16384
Serial number: :P
Application folder: C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Photoshop CS6 (64 Bit)\
Temporary file path: C:\Users\rick\AppData\Local\Temp\
Photoshop scratch has async I/O enabled
Scratch volume(s):
C:\, 119,1G, 15,1G free
Required Plug-ins folder: C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Photoshop CS6 (64 Bit)\Required\
Primary Plug-ins folder: C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Photoshop CS6 (64 Bit)\Plug-ins\
Additional Plug-ins folder: not set