You are correct flashing BIOS is not my usual goto and I should have clarified in my earlier post that there was some evidence it may have been worth it. In my case it was a new machine and the hardware hadn't proven itself to be reliable yet (hadn't proven itself to be unreliable either, the data just didn't exist). After "Adobe" products would hang (they were the only products I saw this issue with, but I don't have many apps I'm using either) I would occasionally get a Stop Code error (Blue Screen of Death) indicating some piece of hardware was not waking from a sleep state properly. All of my drivers had been recently updated and none of them had recently deployed updates (i.e. the latest driver updates were still a few months old) The one piece of hardware/driver that was out of date was my motherboard which I was two versions behind and the release notes were "stability improvements". After flashing the bios a pretty easily reproducible error was not able to be reproduced (and I still haven't seen it). I felt sharing this information was more valuable than not saying anything as it is possible someone else out there may have a similar issue or possibly even the exact same mother board that I do. If you want a legal disclaimer here it is. If you don't know what flashing the bios means or what it does or how it may adversely impact your life DO NOT ATTEMPT -Have a nice day ... View more

I am not, so far I have just been setting up with defaults. The most interesting change I've made is using an unattended config to have Windows set the Users directory on a separate hard drive from the install drive. I also have duel network cards (gigabit lan as well as Wireless AC) but I'm only using the gigabit LAN at the moment. Once I have determined all of the installs are stable and get my benchmarks from there I may make other alterations (or I may not if everything is running satisfactorily) ... View more

Random update if anyone is interested. After about an hours worth of testing (not extensive by any means) it seems that updating my bios helped/resolved the application load time (and hang ups). I had seen Photoshop 2015.5, Photoshop 2017, and Premier Pro 2017 each would take 5 minutes+ to load or completely hang, which would end up resulting in me needing to restart the machine to resolve (which would end in a BSoD). This was reproducible more than 50% of the time close to 2 out of every 3 times I'd launch one of the mentioned apps. Updating my bios from v1701 to v2202 seems to have resolved that particular issue. I am however still seeing significant delays in Photoshop 2017, specifically when using a brush. The first brush stroke may lock the ui for 5 seconds or longer. Something seems to be interfering with the UI event queue as I can stack events (multiple brush strokes and shortcut keys) and eventually they'll replay and catch up. I do not see near this delay (using the same file and same brush strokes) in Photoshop 2015.5 (now running side by side). I have not had enough time to test anything else in Photoshop 2017 to see if this delay is global or just related to brush strokes. ... View more

Thank you, those are great points. I do have my pagefile.sys setup over multiple hard drives, however I'd be surprised if that was an issue. Even with perfmon up my system appears to be virtually idling when I'm seeing the hangups or delay. I'll post back after running some more tests and seeing if reverting to 2015 resolves the issue. A few specs on my machine Intel i7 6700k 64gigs of ram 6gig EVGA GTX 1060 ASUS ROG MAXIMUS VIII EXTREME Samsung 500gig SSD for Application Samsung ~240gig SSD for active work WD 1TB black drive for User directory Drobo 5D for Archived work ... View more

It seems that I am running into the same issue with poor performance (if not complete lock ups). I'm about to install the 2015 versions of Photoshop as well as Premier Pro, but one point that might be interesting. This was a fresh PC build. All new components, new hard drives clean install of Windows 10 with minimal applications installed. A few points to my system that I imagine others may in common. * Windows 10 (Home) * GTX 1060 * Wacom Tablet (Intuos 4) * Colormunki Display * Norton Security * MS Office (365) * PCMark 8 * 3dMark (both purchased through Steam but they were the only apps installed) * Acronis True Image * Drobo Dashboard * Hp Printer * DVD Architect * Various RedGiant Plugins * Video Copilot Plugins * Logitech Setpoint * Avid Application Manager * Sibelius (Currently uninstalling both this as well as Avid application manager) All my drivers are current as well as Windows updates. I can provide more detailed specs on my physical hardware if it would be useful. The above list is a complete list of applications that have been installed on my machine to this point. I've only had the machine up and running for a couple days now so it should be a pretty clean slate. Let me know if I can provide any other information. ... View more