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January 8, 2023

P: MacBook Pro Apple M2 Max Laggy Liquify

  • January 8, 2023
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MacBook Pro Apple M2 Max 96GB RAM - Photoshop 24.2
I recently changed to this new computer and photoshop is super laggy in tools like liquify and other filters, the brush lags a lot!
Even the zoom is slow.
Even my 2015 MacBook is faster at these tasks.

I don't know what is going on but something can't be right...

186 replies

Known Participant
July 27, 2023

installed 24.7 and at first seemed to work. but after a while it's suttering. point stop and cursor jumps to where it's supposed to.  If it's just for cursor movement, fine, but It's affecting even when I click and move pixels around in liquify and for someone who does his stroke in small increments it's realy annoying. This shifty cursor behavior started when I saved the file to PDB cause it went over PSD file limit. This might not be the cause of the problem but Beta version still works fine.

davidpearlman@me.com
Participant
July 26, 2023

These strings are always a bit difficult to follow. I see that by downloading the BETA version we have pretty much solved the lag issue in the liquify filter. Do you know how long it will be before this fix is includdd in a regular photoshop version update?  Thank you. 

Participant
July 5, 2023

hello! when you record screen with quicktime the liquify filter works fine. this is crazy.

Known Participant
July 3, 2023

the lag is fixed on Beta, (kinda)

 

There seem to be some sort of a loading time for about 2-5seconds for liquify to be fully functional.

During that 2-5 seconds load time, liquify is still not functioning properly.

 

Is it an improvement? definitely yes.

Is it 100% functional? depends how/where you look at it/from.

I'd say it's 85% there compared to previous verions' performance.

 

With GPU suppport off (on both official and beta) the image loads sequencially and that takes about 2-5 second to finish.

Which is about the same amount of load time I experienced on Beta with GPU support on...

 

m2 Pro Mac Mini, 32GB ram, 4TB SSD...just in case anyone's wondering which machine I'm operating from...

Known Participant
July 1, 2023

I find everything is slow, I have a 16" 2023 MBP with 16GB memory and it appears to be way slower handling simplest tasks, like opening a raw file, through Camera Raw, saving a file appears to hang. Ihave 3 external hard drives connected which files and scratch disk live on. I had a 2015 MBP which was at least as fast if not faster, what's going on? I am checking for photoshop updates that might fix these problems every day.

Community Manager
June 29, 2023

Thanks to all who have verified that the liquify issue has been addressed.

@ppdix, would you mind starting a separate thread on the slowness when saving a jpg file so we can track that as a separate issue?

Is it only jpgs?  Any particular size?  Do you remember what beta it started happening in?  Thanks.

Known Participant
June 29, 2023

YES!!!!!! It only took 3 months to fix it but so far so good!

This means so much. 

Please, Adobe, don't let this happen again.

I rely on Liquify and Photoshop for my work and this is great news. But it's been a frustrating 3 months.

One other thing that I am experiencing though is saving a regular jpg takes forever. I've never seen the rainbow ball so much  in previous versions. It started happening a few beta updates ago... Everything has a few seconds delay. 

I have M2 Max with 32GB of RAM. PS should be lightning fast in all operations.

I'm just happy Liquify works!

 

Participating Frequently
June 29, 2023

He probado el filtro licuar con la nueva actualización y hora funciona perfectamente 

Participating Frequently
June 29, 2023

Liquify has been fixed in the beta build 24.7!

Community Manager
June 29, 2023

Hello,

There is a fix for this issue in today’s Beta build.  If you try it out before our next scheduled release, please let us know if there is a performance improvement.

Thank you