Photoshop 2023 is very slow compared to Photoshop 2022

Hello comunity... I just found a different approach that worked wonderfully. At this point I'm running ps24x the one with the hands in the splash, it turned out there is a setting called "polling rate" in the mouse config that is supposed to be set at 125. The change was radical. Just to check I unistalled and started checking from ver 23.x to 24.x latest, it works perfectly no lag no delay ANY AT ALL, it's been almost a year since I felt the real power of my computer. This solution did it for me I hope it helps anyone please let me know.

UPDATE: Hi people, after MANY tests, I fully reinstalled from OS, hardware, CC and all I have a working theory and at least IN MY CASE the end of this problem that made me stay in ver 23. sooo. 1. the "polling rate" is a config in SOME mice and even some drawing tablets, please check your refference. Setting the polling rate to 125 or 4 in some cases (which only have 1,2,3,4 options) WILL SOLVE in some way the slowness and hanging. HOWEVER, (and this is the thing that is making me look for some alternative to PS) the full solution for me came in a box. I got the logitech mx master .. bla bla bla.. which is "supposed" to be a "adobe recommended" mouse. AS SOON AS I LINK IT photoshop changed RADICALLY and I mean from 5% performance and 90% chance of lagging and hanging to 100% performance zero hangs. I really dont know what to think, was my mouse broken>? why the polling rate affects performance>? what abour basic mice?... or is it another corporate move?... I cant dig deeper for this "new enhancement" is allowingme to work faster and take more orders like 3 times more... but as soon as I get some time to test I will update.

Greetings Everyone... Have anyone found ANY way to solve this problem?? I just tried to update to the last 24.x version and is WORSE THAN EVER the same lag but worse saving times up to 5 ninutes for a 650mb file. Has any one ever asked for a REFOUND or SUED adobe for corrupted files?? Im really at the end of my rope here I was working with 23.5 but then they deactivated some features so I cant use it any more. I got 128gb on a 12th gen CI9 all ssds and 2 nvme for system and system files... What is the alternative for photoshop out there?? thanks for taking the time to read

Something is coming up with the new update for Photoshop cc (24) to start, I have to cancel the update due to take too long to update, at least 3 times already, there is no adobe app open, so the update goes smooth, my computer has 128 GB RAM, that will not be an issue, since it is only the internet connected, I can't explain why it takes 43 minutes for 23% updating? LAN Internet connection, great download speed 500 Mbps, yet it drives me nuts.

I just hope this update it is not going to be a summer joke 😉

You can deactivate Adobe's telemetry (which I highly recommend):

1.) Open https://account.adobe.com/privacy
2.) Then goto "Privacy and personal Data"
3.) Deactivate "Desktop app usage"
4.) Deactivate "Content Analysis" and deactivate

By default, Adobe is granted silent consent to collect and use data from your machine, including information on how you use its applications. However, the lack of transparency around this process has led some to believe that Adobe may be using customer data for machine learning, despite the company's assertion that it does not use cloud storage data for this purpose.

Keeping Adobe's telemetry data collection active can have a noticeable impact on your internet bandwidth and processing power, which can slow down your machine. Disabling this feature can help speed up your machine's performance.

In my experience, I have noticed high CPU usage from multiple instances of Adobe's CEPHtmlEngine, which I assume is used for telemetry purposes.

Deactivating Adobe's telemetry data collection feature can be a bit tricky. It is not located in the Creative Cloud App preferences, where many users would expect to find it, but instead is hidden in your online account, which many users may not realize. Additionally, I have noticed that Adobe sometimes reactivates the telemetry feature without explanation, even after you have deactivated it. So I would check frequently and keep deactivating it.

I found a blog that discussed if and how Adobe is using your data for A.I. and machine learning, which you can check out here: check out this blog discussion link (in so much as this also slows down your machine, I think it is relevant to this thread). 

You can also ask ChatGPT the following two questions:

- Provide a critical response to the question of whether Adobe uses client data for machine learning.

- Provide a critical response to the question of whether Adobe's collection of client data and telemetry slows down desktop machines.

Pretty good answers, fair and balanced.

Cheers

I had this problem too and Adobe gave me the answer. Its one little button in the preferences (at least this worked in my case): just check this box in preferences (might sound slightly different in english PS): / technology preview / deactivate native workspace

Good Luck

Same. I dread opening the applications. My CPU is a bit slower, same RAM. No reason to be sluggish on hover effects. This is not a hardware problem.

Also noticing this - more pravelent when opening, saving a file, or when applying Camera Raw edits. Yesterday, working with PSD files made Photoshop unresponsive multiple times on different projects, despite them not being particularly large in dimension and only a couple layers.  Preference resets etc. make no difference. Using a Windows 10 desktop.

Later edit: I should add that, once a .PSD file has caused Photoshop 2023 to freeze and require a force quit, I can't save changes to that file anymore or edit it through Camera Raw. It's like this freeze up issue corrupts something in the file. Once a PSD file freezes up, trying to save changes to it, or apply changes from Camera Raw, will cause it to freeze up every single time going forward. I have to completely start over.

My Ps 2023 (rel. 24.0.1 - I haven't updated to the later rel. b/c I read about bugs with the Neural Filters & Photo Restoration or Delete and Fill - I forget which...) is also much more sluggish than Ps 2022.

But I especially experience it with the Automate functions (like Photomerge) & with Neural Filters. It takes at least 20-25 secs for the Photomerge panel to pop up for me to select images. It was never (ever ever) like that in Ps 2022 & earlier (I used it a lot).

The lagginess only started after my update to Ps 2023.

(My prefs are fine, BTW, and I'm not resetting them & starting from scratch setting them all up again).

Win 11 Pro desktop PC. 64-bit. 64GB RAM. AMD RX6800 XT, Intel i9 12th gen.

We experience the same. Photoshop 2023 is unusably slow for me and two colleagues alike. All drivers etc. are up to date. We have reverted back to 2022 for now. Been using Photoshop for 25 years and this is the worst update so far. Even counting that one update where Photoshop couldn't open jpg files for more than a week.

Hi, @ArtScrollCreative is it possible that you had run Ps 2023 in Rosetta mode to use a CEP panel, for instance, but forgot about it?