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Charismatic_yogiB82A
Charismatic_yogiB82A
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May 9, 2012

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

  • May 9, 2012
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PS CS6 has a lot of enhancements and great features. it launches very fast, and the control is very responsive and smooth.

although i am experiencing some speed issues with very large files. compared to CS5.1, where i don't have any of these issues.

the files are PSBs, 9000x8000px, 80+layers, RGB, 8bit

i have the same performance settings for both, cs6 and cs5
i am working on MAC PRO, 16GB ram, SSD scratch, 2TB raid, Radeon HD 5770, Snow Leopard.

the main issues i have are:

- no refresh when i move the curve on adjustment layer. the refresh comes after i let go.
- jagged pan
- extremely slow moving of layers and layer groups, even if they are with smaller dimensions (800x400pix)

again, working with files with less layers or smaller dimensions is very fast.

thanks for your help and support!
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    FeedbackCommunityMember
    Inspiring
    September 20, 2012
    Download it from Adobe.com
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    FeedbackCommunityMember
    Inspiring
    September 20, 2012
    Where can I download this update? My photoshop computer doesn't have internet connection. I only have wireless internet and it doesn't have a wireless card.
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    FeedbackCommunityMember
    Inspiring
    September 19, 2012
    First, make sure you have the 13.0.1 update installed.

    Then, if that doesn't solve it, you need to provide a lot more specific information about what exactly is slow, and what troubleshooting you've done on your system to identify the cause of the slowdown.
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    FeedbackCommunityMember
    Inspiring
    September 19, 2012
    I'm having slow issues with photoshop 6 as well. I'm a professional photoshop user since 1993, work on 10-15gb files with 100+ layers. I use a MacPro 2x2.26ghz quad core intel xeon. 32GB Ram. Just did a clean install of lion onto an 500gb SSD hard drive. All my files are SATA connected with a 6TB Raid 0. Nothing except for photoshop, bridge and Capture one is installed on this machine. I experience delays on all fronts. even trying to silhouette a 279mb 2 layer file is painfully slow today.

    I've disabled graphics processor
    Memory usage is set to 70% (21772mb)
    cache levels 4
    cache tile size 1024
    automatically save recovery information every 10 minutes (how much does this slow the system down?
    Charismatic_yogiB82A
    Charismatic_yogiB82AAuthor
    Known Participant
    September 13, 2012
    regarding the other slowness complain i had.
    please ignore it, i discovered the same issues with 5.1 too.
    i have very sluggish brush when painting over a bunch of layer effects.
    bit this is another topic.
    Charismatic_yogiB82A
    Charismatic_yogiB82AAuthor
    Known Participant
    September 13, 2012
    this was misunderstanding:
    i get the progress bar on the large (white dots) document, right after i finish moving the dots. moving speed is ok for me and comparable with cs 5.1, but why the progress bar after the movement is finished? i don't see the point?
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    FeedbackCommunityMember
    Inspiring
    September 13, 2012
    OK, nudging is something we know about, and I'm testing a fix for.
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    tyggy
    Participating Frequently
    September 13, 2012
    Both these methods work: Hiding layers palette and changing the layers palette to no thumbs option.
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    FeedbackCommunityMember
    Inspiring
    September 12, 2012
    Layers palette off? Do you mean you just closed the layers palette? Or that you changed the layers palette settings to not show thumbnails?
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    tyggy
    Participating Frequently
    September 12, 2012
    I have the same issue here. it's a macbook air with plenty of free ram, osx 10.8
    no plugins and no scripts running.
    i suspect this issue is connected with thumbnails issue because with thumbnails off (layers panel off) it works really fast.

    I can say that this only happens with files with a lot of layers (ie 300 layers in 480x800 android mock up file). but it happens even if most of them are hidden and i'm only dragging 1 layer
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