Illustrator CC 2014 running EXTREMELY slow on brand new 6 Core Mac Pro with 64Gbs of Ram. This can't be right :(

Ok, I had the same problem and here is what I did and it helped (please know that I am a designer and not a technical skilled person....): in upper left corner you see a little rocket, click on it (it deals with GPU performance) and turn of animated zoom.

Same thing here; Was on the phone with AppleCare last week, and the hardware check all looked good. Once I upgraded to Yosemite about 2 months ago, Illustrator is running TERRIBLY! Was running perfectly, now it's unbearably choppy, lagging, slow-- even with small files, unsophisticated files. Turned off GPU preview and synch settings. It's obvious that it's Illustrator and Yosemite in conjunction that's the problem. Please help! Wish I could go back to Maverick.

I have similar issues. I come from working with CS6 on Windows for years and recently purchased a new Macbook Pro with 16 GB and am now using Illustrator CC.

Illustrator CC on Mac is so much slower for me than CS6 on Windows, it is unbelievable. Sometimes it takes minutes to save a small file and even closing a file that was unedited and doesn't need to be saved still takes a long time to close. I am staring at the loading icon all the time just moving objects around or copy/pasting. CS6 on my 8 GB 4-year-old PC ran 10 times better. I always thought that Adobe would run better on Mac, but this is so slow it is pretty much unusable. Add to that a lot of issues I am having (such as this and this) ... I am actually considering doing Illustrator work on my old PC again.

Please apply the latest patch 19.1 and let us know if it resolves your issue.

-- Ashutosh

Adobe just doesn't care about the issues anymore. It's been 2 years since i've asked them to give us a solution to Adobe Illustrator hang issue on a Lenovo 8 GB DDR3 RAM. Now we've bought a Macbook Pro and have the same issue multiple artboard artworks lag and takes unto 2-3 minutes to save every step. I HOPE YOU'RE LISTENING.

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To those who still have slow illustrator problem, one solution that worked for me was this: http://palindrome.com/support/2013/10/27/illustrator-cc-issue-slow-due-to-missing-fonts/

I paste here what it says:

If you expe­ri­ence prob­lems oper­at­ing Illus­tra­tor CC, such as:

slow open­ing,

slow sav­ing,

dif­fi­culty mov­ing objects, and

an inabil­ity to nor­mally quit the application,

then the likely cause is not hav­ing a needed font open, or hav­ing a con­flict between needed fonts.

The most com­mon fonts miss­ing or con­flict­ing are Tahoma and Ver­dana. These fonts are often present as part of

an old Microsoft Office instal­la­tion. Try remov­ing them from the /Library/Fonts/Microsoft folder, and restart Illus­tra­tor.

In some cases you may also need to open Font Book and reac­ti­vate these fonts after remov­ing the conflicts.

i had numerous phone calls to the adobe support team and every time they had a deferent suggestion:

1. Pause file sync

2. Delete the adobe preferences folder

3. Delet plugins

4. Valdate the fonts in the font book

5. Work on local hard drive

so far nothing helped

i'm delaying a perches of a new mac until i find solution to this problem and i'm considering switching to another application.

hope the guys in adobe grasp the magnitude of this problem before its too late

Same thing here, on my desk and lap top. Lots of RAM new graphics card. ADOBE????  I can't use Illustrator to make complex vector art, so what good is it?

I have been experiencing the same problem since a Java update. Now it is limited only in one specific document which could mean settings, size, etc. Whatever the trouble is the problem makes working impossible. 

Just awful, Adobe are you listening??????

AMD A16700- 4191MHz Core speed

18 GB RAm

AMD R9 270x Graphics

So slow with objects with multiple points that I can't finish this job.