P: Healing and Spot Healing Brush Lag

I'm experiencing the same 'lag' issue, for the first time ever. However I'm still using PS CS6, and have had nothing to do with PS CC 2018. The lag with the spot healing brush began after upgrading my MacPro (with 20 GB ram) from OS 10.7.5 (Mountain Lion) to OS 10.11.6 (El Capitan). I use a Wacom Intuos 4 tablet.

Given all the comments on this thread blaming PS CC 2018, your thoughts would be very welcome.
Is there a fix for the problem?

Thanks,
Bob

That's awesome to hear, Beth. Thanks for the update!

~Hannah

Hannah, 

I got an PS CC 2018 update notification yesterday for version 19.1 and...so far, it seems to be helping my sluggish/lagging issues w/o having to upgrade to High Sierra. I haven't done a lot of brush work, but even basic zooming and showing/hiding layers doesn't take forever to display. Just so you know! 

Thanks,
Beth

Ah...Okay. So, I have 10.12.6. I have a brand new computer, I don't remember updating it to this version...maybe I did, maybe Apple did it on it's own. Overall my computer seems to be okay, but Photoshop was lagging really bad for me too. But, the computer's performance over all was not as fast as I expected for getting a new computer. (24 GB RAM, 3.4 GHz Intel Core i5 iMac. But PS was dragging the worst! It wasn't even usable. So...I am having the exact same problem as you Scott. Turning off GPU Acceleration has helped me too. 

SO, Try this!!...just today...Adobe came out with PS CC 19.1 (it was 19.0.1), it said it had bug fixes including for high resolution monitors. So, I tried it...I installed it, turned GPU Acceleration back on and it *seems* to be working better. I am not doing anything intense, but I do have big files open and I am not getting the same slowness (i.e. zoom in & out slowness, turning on and off layers isn't as bad), it is much better. So, I'd recommend trying PS CC 19.1. See if that helps! 

It might just be the OS indexing your startup drive. Sometimes that process can mess with overall system responsiveness.

Looks like it wasn't High Sierra. It was their security update, 10.12.6. But it did it overnight, and I never allow automatic updates, so I'm not sure what they did. I'm still trying to figure it out. But wow. Anyway, turning GPU acceleration off in PS fixes the issue but then filters and my actions take longer. I feel bad for Adobe having to put with Apple's nonsense. 

Damn, sorry to hear that Scott!! That sooo sucks! 

Thanks for the warning...I will continue to hold off, or at least try to! I don't get how High Sierra updated itself! 

My main Apple machine updated itself last night without my permission to High Sierra. It's a Mac Pro with 1TB flash and 2 64GB GPUs. It's started lagging on everything in PS. But it's also lagging on other things. Turned off the GPU and it stopped lagging. I'll be giving Apple a call tomorrow and will likely be much less polite than I am here. They just f*#ed up a $10,000 graphics machine that I count on greatly. The lag is enormous. Hope this helps you, although it doesn't help me at all. 

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