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September 3, 2013

P: Pen tool lags

  • September 3, 2013
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In Photoshop CC the pen tool lags about half second from when it is initially clicked. This makes it very hard to work fast using paths. It literally takes half a second for an anchor point to appear after clicking.

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Inspiring
September 11, 2013
Do you have any third party plugins installed? Have you tried disabling them?

So far we're not seeing the slowdown, and we're trying to figure out why a few people see such a slowdown.
fredtatAuthor
Known Participant
September 11, 2013
Hi Chris, I just installed the newest CC update hoping it would have resolved this issue but it is still there! This is driving me crazy. Cropping images is such a pain.

I'm telling you, I click and the anchor appears about half a second later. In previous versions, the anchor appears immediately allowing for fast workflow.

Please confirm you are seeing the same thing on a PC running Windows 7 64 bit.

This is really frustrating.
Participating Frequently
September 8, 2013
I just instal new CC and have same problem. It is just frustrating when You have 70 packshots to cut from background and and after 10 you want to throw your monitor out the window. I have this problem on two PC's:

Phenom II X6 1090T (3,2 GHz), 8 Gb Ram, GeForce 450 GTS - Windows 7 Pro 64bit
Phenom II X6 1045T, 8Gb Ram, Ati 6850 - Windows 8 64bit

I turned off Smooth lines in advanced performance options but it change nothing to performance.
fredtatAuthor
Known Participant
September 4, 2013
Great, please do...it's driving me crazy. My Graphics card is a GEFORCE GTX 670
Inspiring
September 4, 2013
OK, we'll have to see if we can reproduce the delay.
fredtatAuthor
Known Participant
September 3, 2013
Hi Chris, thanks for the quick response. Windows 7 64bit.

Video card is up to date. 16GB RAM and a high end video card.
Turning off GPU and changing preview to non had no affect.
Inspiring
September 3, 2013
Which OS version?

Have you tried updating your video card driver, or turning off GPU drawing in Photoshop?

Hmm, one other thing to try: set the font preview size to None.