Illustrator lagging on new build PC
Hi all,
My issue:
I recently got a new PC built to replace my aging laptop. Despite (I've been told) much more powerful specs, Illustrator is running far slower on the new PC than on the laptop - around 30% slower based on timed tests I've done. It doesn't seem to handle files with lots of points or brushstrokes very well. There is a noticeable lag from about files about 50mb and up. The curser lags, when moving objects there's a noticable lag, the screen blacks out and says 'not responding' while saving or merging shapes etc. It often decides to turn off the auto-saving mode, there can often be a lag when drawing with the brush tool, sometimes it can't handle expanding and dividing / merging shapes and crashes.
I've been using illustrator for around 9 years professionally, and while my work does include strokes and texture brushes, I wouldn't say it is excessive. The largest file size I typically use is around 400mb. I know the more textures and brushes you use the slower it gets, but I haven't started using more, and files that ran fine on the laptop are now crawling on my PC.
The guy who built the PC is at a loss, we've been through a few things such as upgrading bits of hardware (adding a Solid state drive, increasing RAM etc), switching windows OS (Windows 10 pro, to Windows 7 Pro, to Windows 10 pro). He said he had a large amount of clients running creative suite on similar spec machines and they have not had problems, my only thoughts are they are more traditional graphic designers rather than illustrators.
My question:
My main question is twofold:
- Why would illustrator run slower on a newer PC than an old laptop?
- What can I do to speed up the performance of illustrator? I recognise that it won't be super smooth all of the time, but the performance is noticeably worse and after shelling out a load of cash on a new system that I was told would suit me fine you can understand I'm a little cheesed off...
What I have done so far:
- Re-installed Illustrator
- Assigned the scratch drive location to Primary C Drive (SSD) and Secondary D Drive.
- Increased memory available to Illustrator as per Adobe help.
- Spoken to Adobe - they said my system looked fine to them.
My System Specs and Set Up:
- Processor AMD A8-7650K Radeon R7, 10 Compute Cores 4C+6G, 3300 Mhz, 2 Core(s), 4 Logical Processor(s)
- Installed Physical Memory (RAM) 16.0 GB
- 450GB Solid State Drive (C) (Kingston DC400 480GB 2.5" SATA Rev. 3.0 6Gb/s SSD)
2TB Hybrid Hard Drive (D) (Seagate FireCuda Desktop 2TB Hybrid Hard Drive (SSHD) 3.5" SATA III 6GB's 7200RPM 64MB Cache)
- 1TB Back-up Drive (E)
- Zotac Geforce GTX 1050 Ti Mini 4GB GDDR5 Graphics Card
- Windows 10 Pro
- Latest version Adobe CC
Windows 10 & Adobe are installed on the SSD - C Drive
Files are on D Drive
Back up is on E Drive
My old Laptop Specs
Inspiron 7520 Base
CN15S17
Processor : Intel Core i7-3632QM (up to 3.20 GHz, 6M cache)
Memory : 8192MB (2x4096) 1600MHz DDR3
Hard Drive : 1TB Serial ATA (5400RPM)
32GB mSATA3 SSD for Minicard slots - PM830
Graphics : 2GB AMD Radeon HD 7730M
Wireless : Intel 2230 WLAN Card (802.11n + BT 4.0)
Operating System : Windows 8 64 bit, English
Reference
As a reference, my website is www.foxcubstudio.co.uk. You can see the kind of work I do, normally vector based illustration with a little bit of texture thrown in.
Basically, I'm stumped. I'm pretty busy with work so I don't have time to tinker unfortunately. Hopefully someone here can offer advice on how to speed up illustrator!
Many thanks,
Elly
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