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January 30, 2015

P: Running with 200% scale for the UI degrades performance

  • January 30, 2015
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The aesthetics of this feature are great, however the blow it gives my performance makes it unusable. I am using a Dell P2715Q 27" 4K display, 16GB Corsair RAM, 120GB Crucial SSD as boot and scratch disc, and XFX R7 250X GPU; all in Windows 7. I was running PS CS5, but decided to do a trial run with PS CC 2014 due to the ridiculously small UI in CS5 at 4K resolution... The performance slow down from CS5 to CC 2014 is ridiculous with the 200% UI enabled, and disappointing even without it. My actions that run lightning fast on CS5 take a significant amount of time in CC 2014. All in all, I will be reinstalling my CS5, and reducing my resolution to standard high definition again... unfortunate that my brand new screen has to be held back to half of it's capabilities due to poor development on Adobe's part.

Note: This conversation was created from a reply on: Photoshop: Introducing scale the UI 200% for high-density displays for Windows.

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    FeedbackCommunityMember
    Inspiring
    June 24, 2015
    Hi Good morning. Even with the update applied we are still seeing a slow down in performance when using big files (psb - 4gb and up). Efficiency will spike up and down. We are using secondary drives (1TB) for our scratch disks. Dell XPS 8700 - 16GB Ram. We've tried uninstalling/reinstalling - with adobe cleaner tool as well. Primarily on zoom ins/outs. Multiple crashes - the event viewer does show an application crash.
    Any suggestions? Thank you in advance.
    Something to note - i fixed one of the crashes by changing the log-in. So we have multiple memberships, however one of them constantly said try, instead of install. Under that log-in photoshop would crash every 20 minutes. When logged in with a different account, the crashes stopped... we also uninstalled/reinstalled
    yortlecti
    yortlectiAuthor
    Participating Frequently
    June 16, 2015
    Sweet, I'll update and implement! You guys rock!
    Adam Jerugim
    Community Manager
    Adam JerugimCommunity Manager
    Community Manager
    June 16, 2015
    The update is available now. Have at it 🙂
    yortlecti
    yortlectiAuthor
    Participating Frequently
    June 16, 2015
    Beautiful, I will be watching for its release.
    J
    J453
    Legend
    June 16, 2015
    This should be fixed in the Photoshop CC (2015) update.
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    FeedbackCommunityMember
    Inspiring
    May 28, 2015
    Hi. Unfortunately I am facing the same problems: using 200% UI scale feature PS performance significantly drops down using actions.
    Very looking forward for a solution.

    Thanks
    yortlecti
    yortlectiAuthor
    Participating Frequently
    February 3, 2015
    Adam,

    I did test running the actions with the panels hidden, per your suggestion. You're right, this did trim several seconds off the run time. That's definitely a step in the right direction. However having to hide and unhide these panels every time I run an action is a hindrance in its own right. At this point, it's not worth the additional monthly fee and loss in productivity (though admittedly less than I originally experienced) to utilize full 4K. I will dial my CS5 back down in resolution and stick with what I know until the kinks are worked out of the new versions of Photoshop. You guys are awesome for diving in to this issue though; genuinely stellar customer service right there. I tip my hat to you all, and I will be watching for future updates.

    Thanks!!

    Michael
    Adam Jerugim
    Community Manager
    Adam JerugimCommunity Manager
    Community Manager
    February 2, 2015
    Michael,

    I'm investigating this now and have the Florabella Colorplay actions to test. I'm seeing the difference between 100% and 200% in performance when running the Color Perfect action (haven't tried the others yet). What I've found in my tests is that if I hide both the Actions palette and the Layers palette, that 200% runs just bit slower than 100% (1/2 sec difference in a ~8 sec operation). Can you try running the action with those panels hidden to see if performance is better on your system?

    Thanks,
    Adam
    J
    J453
    Legend
    February 2, 2015
    Excellent. Hopefully I'll here back from the Florabella folks.
    yortlecti
    yortlectiAuthor
    Participating Frequently
    February 2, 2015
    If you are able to obtain a copy, the specific actions I find the most delayed are "Perfect Color" and "Subtle Color". These are the base for the vast majority of my edits , so once I saw how significantly slower their performance was I didn't proceed to test many of the less resource intensive actions.
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