P: MacBook Pro Apple M2 Max Laggy Liquify

I'm having the same problem

I'm really angry

Adobe should take this issue seriously

I have an obligation to solve this problem quickly

One thing I've noticed is that the "face-aware liquify" works just fine, without any lag whatsoever

Masking in liquify seem to work flawlessly once you click and drag, until you click there's visible cursor lag.

These make me think the lag issue seem somewhat related to the problems I had with previous versions of Photoshop,

only it's showing up in one singular function.

1. I had issue with clone stamp tool where I have "ruler" visible, preview mouse icon would lag, execpt when you click and drag OR turn the "ruler" off from view menu. This bugged me for quite some time, occuring on some versions and not ocuring on some versions since 2017.

2. I had issue with liquify, if I'm remembering correctly, I had to change the tool in liquify to face-aware(a) and then exit. for the next time when I open up in liquify face-aware would be the first default tool I get and this somehow releaved the lag for manual liquify (w).

I think this occured on my m1 mac.

these issues I faced never got resolved immediately nor acknowledged by Adobe with any mention in release notes

I just had to wait boiling over, passing on several version updates

or crossed my fingers and risk updating since Adobe decided to limit the versions you can roll back

(my old 2013 15" MBP still has v21)

Just wanted to add that I tested on 3 other macs (2 intel mbps 2019 & 2018, one imac 2015) with the same PS versions and everything is smooth with the liquify tool despite computers being much older. So the issue in my case is related to M2 chip. The new laptop has 32GB RAM & 1TB drive, it's super fast for everything except laggy liquify tool.

Having the same problem with laggy liquify tool (to the point of being unusable) on the latest Macbook Pro 16 inch with M2 Pro chip running Ventura OS.

The problem occurs on all Photoshop versions from 24.0 up until 24.5. So I'm stuck on 23.5.5 because of one liquify tool when paying subscription to access new features, not cool.

Hope it will be fixed asap.

oh, macOS Ventura 13.4, PS 24.5.0, WACOM 6.4.2-4

Just bought M2 pro mac mini (third one from selection wihtout upgrading cpu) with 32GB ram and 4TB SSD...thought most of the big wrinkles were ironed out by now but nahhh...using mouse to navigat to filter menu and then holding out option key is much faster then diabling GPU support on/off and relaunch but is none the less hassle that piles up when you got loads of images to edit lined in que. PLEASE for the love of GAWD fix this. liquify is one of the core component of Photoshop and should be treated with utmost ungency. 

@Sameer K Is this the final solution ... or a temporary one ?

Is this the final solution ... or a temporary one ?

U said it!