Here are the solutions I found that stopped the lag in 2019.  All changes to preferences. First, check the frequency of auto save.  Mine was set to autosave every 2 minutes for heavens sake.  The attempts to autosave was interfering with the new work.  I changed to auto save to every half hour. Next, turn off the new home page, and check the legacy home page.  Turn of the tool tips and those god awful built in tutorials, last and probably least, reduce the number of previous projects shown at start up from 20 to about 3.  Voila! I am working fast again ... View more

Since February 6th, Adobe Illustrator CC 2019 is unbearable: I am not converting from a PDF: I am creating new documents, maximum 6 layers, and with every single command I receive "Illustrator not Responding" and the lag time from the time I issue a command to the time there is a response can last as long as two minutes.  Furthermore, the line weight command will not draw a line less than 4 points.  It took an hour to knock out a simple one page flyer that should have taken 20 minutes.  I am running Windows 10 64 bit with the most current upgrade.  A quick diagnosis tells me the GPU is working fine: I am using NVIDIA Quattro 1000M. ... View more