P: Nik DFine2 hanging in Sierra

Same problems as everyone else. Updated to the latest version of Photoshop and the NIK plug ins entered 'slo mo' mode. Re-installed version 17.0.0 and all working OK. Must be something done in the latest update to cause the problems. Respectfully ask Adobe to either fix the problem or explain why the NIK plugins won't work with the latest upgrade.

Any news from Adobe that they recognised the issue and whether they have any plans to fix it ?

You are correct, the Nik collection will work fine with CC 2017, the problem is since the upgrade to CC 2017.1. It appears that Adobe have changed the way CC 2017.1 handles graphics. Personally, I have rolled back to CC 2017 which is very stable and works perfectly on a Mac. I believe Adobe needs to sort this out, because there is also a problem with other filters.

I see the Nik issue(s) with MacBook Pro 15" mid-2015 model (no touch bar) running OS X 10.11.6.

Hope you guys at Adobe can work out what it is you have changed between 2017.0 and 2017.1 that may be causing the Nik apps to fail in these ways - and that you can step back. As you know Google is no longer supporting their Nik apps any more, but I think there's a lot of us using them in our workflow.

If you roll back to Photoshop CC 2017, all the Nik Collection will work correctly. The upgrade to version CC 2017.1 by Adobe, has caused the problem. Also, there was a problem with the Topaz filters, but within days the company introduced a small app that when run for each filter makes them compatible. I am running MacOS Sierra 10.12.4.

David
www.davidjoycephotography.com

I was having the same problem with Dfine2 since updating to the latest version of Photoshop. I have just uninstalled it and re-installed 2017.0.0 and all seems fine. Hopefully Adobe will sort this out in the next update.

You want to use the Creative Cloud App to install 2017 (18.0) — assuming that one runs Dfine without a problem— or 2015.5 (17.0.2), which I've tested and it IS fine. You have to dig down to get to the build to reinstall, but it works. I haven't tried running 17.0  at the same time as the update, but you can run 2015.5 at the same time.

Hi, I'm having the exact same issue with nik collection terrible slow, especially Dfine2 hanging on, after I upgraded Photoshop CC 2017 yesterday. Do you have some good solution to solve this problem? I already did uninstall and reinstall Nik Collection several times, but I don’t know how to downgrade my Photoshop CC 2017.

Yeah, you're completely right... guess i didn't dig deep enough. The Efex filters seem to be working ok, but the Sharpening and Viveza are a total mess.

> all the other Nik filters are behaving as expected.>

You're not finding that Sharpener Pro and Viveza run more slowly in the current 2017 than in 2015.5? I'm also running Yosemite, on a 2009 Nehalem 8 core. Dunno anymore what it's number is. Dfine will move a bit in the status bar (and visibly in the document) if I click in the window, and then it sits again, thinking. . . thinking. . .