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

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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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Charismatic_yogiB82AAuthor

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i really don't understand why are you so offensive? maybe some marketing trick?

it is obvious that this not an individual case, and as you can see from this thread "those things" are getting slower for other people too.

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Something is very wrong with your system -- those things are always getting faster or staying the same speed with each release. You can contact Adobe customer support for a refund, but I'm afraid you're blaming your new car for the condition of your road.

dsburrows

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Looking into this more I'm not convinced this is a display driver problem. If I turn off "Use Graphics Processor" I'm still getting massive delays when zooming after initially opening the file. After a 3-4 minutes the file seems to settle down and then it gets better but then it'll start beachballing again if I zoom out again.

Charismatic_yogiB82AAuthor

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moly, the way to update your drivers on mac is to update your system. if your system is up to date, than you have the latest drivers.

it was already mentioned here. strange that the employees here don't know this.

Charismatic_yogiB82AAuthor

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hey chris, i am a customer and i just bought your product. i'm not trying to get a refund with this topic, i just want to help. no need to be offending here!

and yes PS is getting slower with each version. the new version only starts faster, it applies the filters faster, it saves faster, and probably you'l have better results with benchmarks.
but the usability, response, refresh, pan, moving objects is slower with each version on the same machine for me. although i made some major hardware upgrades.

and as you can see i'm not the only one.

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AlexFedorov

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How do you account for the issue being experienced on a brand new Mac Book with no customizations done to it? It's literally 10 days old and all the settings are standard? To me it seems like a lot of the heavy users that work with large files have not yet upgraded because they're evaluating it - but those of us that have all seem to have this issue with larger files. Do we all have display driver issues? Seems like too much of a coincidence to be the user's fault(s). Plus if our display drivers were all out of date, why does CS4 and CS5 work so much faster with larger files?

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Display driver == video card driver == GPU driver. Updating the driver might help, or contacting the GPU maker to work on fixing the bug.

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Chris, if that's the case, then is there anything I can do about that? I don't know exactly what a display driver is.

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That points toward your display driver as being the cause.