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Damo90
Participant
February 14, 2026
Question

Slow performance when zooming Illustrator on Windows

In Illustrator when zooming in using the ctrl Mouse scroll zoom Illustrator becomes super laggy and clunky (even if there is a simple shape on the artboard), I think I may have found the issue being my resolution and refresh rate? 

 

Does anyone know if there is a way around this to make zooming smoother?

 

My PC info is below.

 

Monitor: Pro Art 2050 x 1440 at 100hz

GPU: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 (12 GB) 
CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 3600 6-Core Processor 3.60 GHz
Installed RAM: 16.0 GB
 

Thank You!

4 replies

Anubhav M
Community Manager
Community Manager
February 16, 2026

Hello ​@Damo90 

 

I’m sorry to hear about your experience. I hope Monika’s suggestions helped resolve the problem. If not, try installing/reinstalling the companion app/drivers for your mouse and performing a clean reinstallation of the GPU(s) drivers (Intel / NVIDIA / AMD) and setting the Graphics Preference to High-Performance for Illustrator (https://www.amd.com/en/resources/support-articles/faqs/GPU-110.html) and check if it helps.


Looking forward to hearing from you.
Anubhav

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Monika Gause
Community Expert
Community Expert
February 14, 2026

There is a problem with the scroll wheel zoom in at least some mouse hardware or drivers. I don’t know whether it has been solved yet.

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Damo90
Damo90Author
Participant
February 15, 2026

ahhh maybe I might test another mouse for now then, hopefully they can fix this.

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Damo90
Damo90Author
Participant
February 14, 2026

Forgot to mention zoom works completely fine in Indesign & Photoshop. 

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