Illustrator CC 2014 extremely choppy. Please help.

I've just installed the 2015 update on my iMac 5k and it does seem to have fixed the problem. Smooth zooming, scrolling, and panning on some very complex Illustrator documents.

Can anyone else confirm this also?

Could I finally go and buy iMac 5K retina 27"!!?

Updated to CC 2015, performance seems unchanged on retina iMac. Adobe, transparency from your end would be appreciated.

Has anyone tested El Capitan on their iMac? Apple/Adobe say with Metal Illustrator runs up to 70% faster. Better rendering e.g. I was wondering if this works out of the box or if it needs an Illustrator update that supports Metal. If it works out of the box I would risk to install El Capitan beta on my iMac.

Edit: Couldn't wait for anyone else to test it since it's almost impossible to work with the current version of Illustrator. So, I installed the El Capitan beta. What can I say...?

It's better, for sure. Still pretty choppy and in comparison to Affinity Designer it still sucks hard. I really hope that Adobe gets their shit together and make this software useable on retina iMacs. Right now, with El Capitan you get a few improvements when it comes to draw paths. Zooming in and out is still horrible. Everything else is still choppy as hell. Next tuesday Adobe is presenting CC 2015 here in Berlin. Let's just hope they can fix this and support Metal to 100% or maybe just use new rendering techniques.

Not sure if this will help you Mac users. I was having this same problem: laggy zooming...almost unbearable, decreasing window size would improve the zooming, but not fix it. I came to this thread seeking help.

I have a Windows machine with a Xeon 2643 processor, 32 GB RAM, and an Nvidia K5000 GPU. Plenty of power for 5k, and the document I was working on was an 8.5x11 document.

Anyway, I solved my problem by going into Preferences> GPU Performance, and nchecking the Animated Zoom setting. Not sure if Mac users have this option, but this seemed to solve it for me. Good luck guys.

Any update on this from Adobe?

Come on Adobe, you take our monthly subscriptions for CC or are you going to offer a reduced CC subscription for iMac Retina owners...

I need a new iMac & looks like I will need to get the non 5k model.

Months pass and still no update for this f*king retina.

I'm sure you have not enough resources to provide a suite that is worth the price you're asking.

Congratulations Adobe.

I can attest to this as well. I have running CC204 Illustrator. v18.1.1

On a Late 2013 Macbook Pro 15in with 2.6 GHz Intel Core i7, 16 GB 1600 MHz DDR3, NVIDIA GeForce GT 750M 2048 MB.

When Running Illustrator on the internal retina at any resolution 1440x900 - 1920x1080 i get interface lag on all tools. This doesn't just effect my large print files filled with patterns and layers but also simpler web assets hat are largely line art.

I get less lag when i use the screen at 1280x800 scaled resolution, but whats the point of that?

My current fix is never work in laptop mode, but only in clamshell mode when pugged into an external display.... which then defeats the purpose of having a laptop.

I have moved all my personal work now from Illustrator to alternatives such as Sketch, and Affinity Designer... neither of which suffer any lag on the retina displays.

I just did a little test:

Open a new document and add one line of text in Illustrator CS5, CS6 and CC2014.

Zooming and panning is by far the smoothest with CS5, almost 100% smooth.

CS6 and CC2014 remain very choppy.

Same problems here on my 5k iMac. Illustrator is the worst, but Photoshop and Indesign aren't much better. Really hope this gets fixed soon, otherwise whats the use of using legit software...