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2TallGreg
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March 30, 2018
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Animate CC horribly slow and laggy on iMac 5K Screen

  • March 30, 2018
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Anybody have this and find a solution? I took my iMac in to the Apple store today. and it checked out on all diagnostics. Everything in CC runs great if I plug in another monitor that is not 5K and use it on that screen.  If I use it on my 5K screen or plug in another 5k screen, it's incredibly laggy. Is there anything I'm missing that I could be trying here?

Thanks!

Greg

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Correct answer Colin Holgate

A couple of thoughts:

I wonder if there is some sort of ancient issue about having an interface more than 4096 pixels across? If you resize the UI to say 75% or less of the screen, does make a difference?

If you Get Info on Animate there is an option to open in Low Resolution. I just did a test on my MacBook Pro, and with a large stage 60 fps, pressing Return to have it run through the timeline over 240 frames, it took 5 seconds in low resolution on both external Cinema Display and internal Retina. Not quite the 4 seconds it should take. In high resolution it only took 5.5 seconds, so for my MacBook Pro it's not a lot in it. But then I only that many pixels across both of my screens combined!

If trying the low res trick solves performance for working, you might fret about not getting the most out of your 5K screen, but at least you can get some work done.

Let me know what you see, including the 75% of the screen for the UI test.

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Colin Holgate
Colin HolgateCorrect answer
Inspiring
March 31, 2018

A couple of thoughts:

I wonder if there is some sort of ancient issue about having an interface more than 4096 pixels across? If you resize the UI to say 75% or less of the screen, does make a difference?

If you Get Info on Animate there is an option to open in Low Resolution. I just did a test on my MacBook Pro, and with a large stage 60 fps, pressing Return to have it run through the timeline over 240 frames, it took 5 seconds in low resolution on both external Cinema Display and internal Retina. Not quite the 4 seconds it should take. In high resolution it only took 5.5 seconds, so for my MacBook Pro it's not a lot in it. But then I only that many pixels across both of my screens combined!

If trying the low res trick solves performance for working, you might fret about not getting the most out of your 5K screen, but at least you can get some work done.

Let me know what you see, including the 75% of the screen for the UI test.

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2TallGregAuthor
Participant
April 3, 2018

Thanks Colin - the Low Resolution thing helped a ton!

This problem has been dogging me for such a long time. Thanks so much for helping me out. I really appreciate it!

Your biggest fan

Greg

Colin Holgate
Colin Holgate
Inspiring
April 3, 2018

Glad you can live with the non-Retina-ish of it!

Did you do the 75% UI size test too? Just curious.

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