Photoshop CC 2014 is MUCH slower than Photoshop CC in a side-by-side comparison.

Does it not seem that the slowness problem is a Mac problem?  I run Windows and have no problem.  Almost all of those who are reporting slowdown are Mac users. Could it be an Apple OS problem not an Adobe problem?

Examples of the speeds differences:

Dropbox - photoshopCC2014.mov

Dropbox - photoshopCC.mov

I've also been experiencing severe performance issues with Photoshop CC 2014. After reading this thread, I increased my Cache levels to 4, restarted Photoshop and voilá - vastly improved performance for everything, particularly the GUI. Hope this helps someone else.  Running MacBook Pro Retina with 16GB RAM.

I am having massive slow down issues, enough to not use CC 2014 until they are corrected.

Specs:

Mavericks

Mac Pro Late 2013

6 core

64GB ram, photoshop has 70% ram allocation

Documents with 100s and 1000s of layers are impossible to work with as it lags and beachballs when turning layers on and off, but in CC the same documents run smoothly. I am using CC until this issue is fixed. Shouldn't this have been caught by QA?

I'm still having issues.  I'm posting my System Info:

Adobe Photoshop Version: 14.2.1 (14.2.1 20140207.r.570 2014/02/07:23:00:00) x64

Operating System: Windows 8 64-bit

Version: 6.2

System architecture: AMD CPU Family:15, Model:2, Stepping:0 with MMX, SSE Integer, SSE FP, SSE2, SSE3, SSE4.1, SSE4.2

Physical processor count: 3

Logical processor count: 6

Processor speed: 3516 MHz

Built-in memory: 8174 MB

Free memory: 3899 MB

Memory available to Photoshop: 7132 MB

Memory used by Photoshop: 72 %

Image tile size: 132K

Image cache levels: 4

Font Preview: Medium

TextComposer: Latin

Display: 1

Display Bounds: top=0, left=0, bottom=1080, right=1920

OpenGL Drawing: Enabled.

OpenGL Allow Old GPUs: Not Detected.

OpenGL Drawing Mode: Advanced

OpenGL Allow Normal Mode: True.

OpenGL Allow Advanced Mode: True.

AIFCoreInitialized=1

AIFOGLInitialized=1

OGLContextCreated=1

NumGPUs=1

gpu[0].OGLVersion="3.0"

gpu[0].MemoryMB=1024

gpu[0].RectTextureSize=16384

gpu[0].Renderer="AMD Radeon HD 7700 Series"

gpu[0].RendererID=26685

gpu[0].Vendor="ATI Technologies Inc."

gpu[0].VendorID=4098

gpu[0].HasNPOTSupport=1

gpu[0].DriverVersion="14.200.1004.0"

gpu[0].Driver="aticfx64.dll,aticfx64.dll,aticfx64.dll,aticfx32,aticfx32,aticfx32,atiumd64.dll,atidxx64.dll,atidxx64.dll,atiumdag,atidxx32,atidxx32,atiumdva,atiumd6a.cap,atitmm64.dll"

gpu[0].DriverDate="20140620000000.000000-000"

gpu[0].CompileProgramGLSL=1

gpu[0].TestFrameBuffer=1

gpu[0].OCLPresent=1

gpu[0].OCLVersion="1.2 AMD-APP (1526.3)"

gpu[0].CUDASupported=0

gpu[0].OCLBandwidth=5.17236e+010

gpu[0].glGetString[GL_SHADING_LANGUAGE_VERSION]="4.40"

gpu[0].glGetProgramivARB[GL_FRAGMENT_PROGRAM_ARB][GL_MAX_PROGRAM_INSTRUCTIONS_ARB]=[2147483647]

gpu[0].glGetIntegerv[GL_MAX_TEXTURE_UNITS]=[8]

gpu[0].glGetIntegerv[GL_MAX_COMBINED_TEXTURE_IMAGE_UNITS]=[192]

gpu[0].glGetIntegerv[GL_MAX_VERTEX_TEXTURE_IMAGE_UNITS]=[32]

gpu[0].glGetIntegerv[GL_MAX_TEXTURE_IMAGE_UNITS]=[32]

gpu[0].glGetIntegerv[GL_MAX_DRAW_BUFFERS]=[8]

gpu[0].glGetIntegerv[GL_MAX_VERTEX_UNIFORM_COMPONENTS]=[1024]

gpu[0].glGetIntegerv[GL_MAX_FRAGMENT_UNIFORM_COMPONENTS]=[1024]

gpu[0].glGetIntegerv[GL_MAX_VARYING_FLOATS]=[128]

gpu[0].glGetIntegerv[GL_MAX_VERTEX_ATTRIBS]=[29]

gpu[0].extension[AIF::OGL::GL_ARB_VERTEX_PROGRAM]=1

gpu[0].extension[AIF::OGL::GL_ARB_FRAGMENT_PROGRAM]=1

gpu[0].extension[AIF::OGL::GL_ARB_VERTEX_SHADER]=1

gpu[0].extension[AIF::OGL::GL_ARB_FRAGMENT_SHADER]=1

gpu[0].extension[AIF::OGL::GL_EXT_FRAMEBUFFER_OBJECT]=1

gpu[0].extension[AIF::OGL::GL_ARB_TEXTURE_RECTANGLE]=1

gpu[0].extension[AIF::OGL::GL_ARB_TEXTURE_FLOAT]=1

gpu[0].extension[AIF::OGL::GL_ARB_OCCLUSION_QUERY]=1

gpu[0].extension[AIF::OGL::GL_ARB_VERTEX_BUFFER_OBJECT]=1

gpu[0].extension[AIF::OGL::GL_ARB_SHADER_TEXTURE_LOD]=1

License Type: Subscription

Serial number: 90970470304291637027

Application folder: C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Photoshop CC (64 Bit)\

Temporary file path: C:\Users\ihsv\AppData\Local\Temp\

Photoshop scratch has async I/O enabled

Scratch volume(s):

  C:\, 109.1G, 18.2G free

Required Plug-ins folder: C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Photoshop CC (64 Bit)\Required\Plug-Ins\

Primary Plug-ins folder: C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Photoshop CC (64 Bit)\Plug-ins\

Installed components:

   ACE.dll   ACE 2013/10/29-11:47:16   79.548223   79.548223

   adbeape.dll   Adobe APE 2013/02/04-09:52:32   0.1160850   0.1160850

   AdobeLinguistic.dll   Adobe Linguisitc Library   7.0.0  

   AdobeOwl.dll   Adobe Owl 2013/10/25-12:15:59   5.0.24   79.547804

   AdobePDFL.dll   PDFL 2013/10/29-11:47:16   79.508720   79.508720

   AdobePIP.dll   Adobe Product Improvement Program   7.0.0.1786  

   AdobeXMP.dll   Adobe XMP Core 2013/10/29-11:47:16   79.154911   79.154911

   AdobeXMPFiles.dll   Adobe XMP Files 2013/10/29-11:47:16   79.154911   79.154911

   AdobeXMPScript.dll   Adobe XMP Script 2013/10/29-11:47:16   79.154911   79.154911

   adobe_caps.dll   Adobe CAPS   7,0,0,21  

   AGM.dll   AGM 2013/10/29-11:47:16   79.548223   79.548223

   ahclient.dll    AdobeHelp Dynamic Link Library   1,8,0,31  

   aif_core.dll   AIF   5.0   79.534508

   aif_ocl.dll   AIF   5.0   79.534508

   aif_ogl.dll   AIF   5.0   79.534508

   amtlib.dll   AMTLib (64 Bit)   7.0.0.249 BuildVersion: 7.0; BuildDate: Thu Nov 14 2013 15:55:50)   1.000000

   ARE.dll   ARE 2013/10/29-11:47:16   79.548223   79.548223

   AXE8SharedExpat.dll   AXE8SharedExpat 2011/12/16-15:10:49   66.26830   66.26830

   AXEDOMCore.dll   AXEDOMCore 2011/12/16-15:10:49   66.26830   66.26830

   Bib.dll   BIB 2013/10/29-11:47:16   79.548223   79.548223

   BIBUtils.dll   BIBUtils 2013/10/29-11:47:16   79.548223   79.548223

   boost_date_time.dll   DVA Product   7.0.0  

   boost_signals.dll   DVA Product   7.0.0  

   boost_system.dll   DVA Product   7.0.0  

   boost_threads.dll   DVA Product   7.0.0  

   cg.dll   NVIDIA Cg Runtime   3.0.00007  

   cgGL.dll   NVIDIA Cg Runtime   3.0.00007  

   CIT.dll   Adobe CIT   2.1.6.30929   2.1.6.30929

   CITThreading.dll   Adobe CITThreading   2.1.6.30929   2.1.6.30929

   CoolType.dll   CoolType 2013/10/29-11:47:16   79.548223   79.548223

   dvaaudiodevice.dll   DVA Product   7.0.0  

   dvacore.dll   DVA Product   7.0.0  

   dvamarshal.dll   DVA Product   7.0.0  

   dvamediatypes.dll   DVA Product   7.0.0  

   dvaplayer.dll   DVA Product   7.0.0  

   dvatransport.dll   DVA Product   7.0.0  

   dvaunittesting.dll   DVA Product   7.0.0  

   dynamiclink.dll   DVA Product   7.0.0  

   ExtendScript.dll   ExtendScript 2013/10/30-13:12:12   79.546835   79.546835

   FileInfo.dll   Adobe XMP FileInfo 2013/10/25-03:51:33   79.154511   79.154511

   filter_graph.dll   AIF   5.0   79.534508

   icucnv40.dll   International Components for Unicode 2011/11/15-16:30:22    Build gtlib_3.0.16615  

   icudt40.dll   International Components for Unicode 2011/11/15-16:30:22    Build gtlib_3.0.16615  

   imslib.dll   IMSLib DLL   7.0.0.145  

   JP2KLib.dll   JP2KLib 2013/10/29-11:47:16   79.248139   79.248139

   libifcoremd.dll   Intel(r) Visual Fortran Compiler   10.0 (Update A)  

   libiomp5md.dll   Intel(R) OMP Runtime Library   5.0  

   libmmd.dll   Intel(r) C Compiler, Intel(r) C++ Compiler, Intel(r) Fortran Compiler   12.0  

   LogSession.dll   LogSession   2.1.2.1785  

   mediacoreif.dll   DVA Product   7.0.0  

   MPS.dll   MPS 2013/10/29-11:47:16   79.535029   79.535029

   msvcm80.dll   Microsoft® Visual Studio® 2005   8.00.50727.8428  

   msvcm90.dll   Microsoft® Visual Studio® 2008   9.00.30729.1  

   msvcp100.dll   Microsoft® Visual Studio® 2010   10.00.40219.1  

   msvcp80.dll   Microsoft® Visual Studio® 2005   8.00.50727.8428  

   msvcp90.dll   Microsoft® Visual Studio® 2008   9.00.30729.1  

   msvcr100.dll   Microsoft® Visual Studio® 2010   10.00.40219.1  

   msvcr80.dll   Microsoft® Visual Studio® 2005   8.00.50727.8428  

   msvcr90.dll   Microsoft® Visual Studio® 2008   9.00.30729.1  

   PatchMatch.dll   PatchMatch 2013/10/29-11:47:16   79.542390   79.542390

   pdfsettings.dll   Adobe PDFSettings   1.04  

   Photoshop.dll   Adobe Photoshop CC   CC  

   Plugin.dll   Adobe Photoshop CC   CC  

   PlugPlugOwl.dll   Adobe(R) CSXS PlugPlugOwl Standard Dll (64 bit)   4.2.0.36  

   PSArt.dll   Adobe Photoshop CC   CC  

   PSViews.dll   Adobe Photoshop CC   CC  

   SCCore.dll   ScCore 2013/10/30-13:12:12   79.546835   79.546835

   ScriptUIFlex.dll   ScriptUIFlex 2013/10/30-13:12:12   79.546835   79.546835

   svml_dispmd.dll   Intel(r) C Compiler, Intel(r) C++ Compiler, Intel(r) Fortran Compiler   12.0  

   tbb.dll   Intel(R) Threading Building Blocks for Windows   4, 1, 2012, 1003  

   tbbmalloc.dll   Intel(R) Threading Building Blocks for Windows   4, 1, 2012, 1003  

   updaternotifications.dll   Adobe Updater Notifications Library   7.0.1.102 (BuildVersion: 1.0; BuildDate: BUILDDATETIME)   7.0.1.102

   WRServices.dll   WRServices Mon Feb 25 2013 16:09:10   Build 0.19078   0.19078

Required plug-ins:

   3D Studio 14.2.1 (14.2.1 x001)

   Accented Edges 14.2.1

   Adaptive Wide Angle 14.2.1

   Angled Strokes 14.2.1

   Average 14.2.1 (14.2.1 x001)

   Bas Relief 14.2.1

   BMP 14.2.1

   Camera Raw 8.5

   Camera Raw Filter 8.5

   Chalk & Charcoal 14.2.1

   Charcoal 14.2.1

   Chrome 14.2.1

   Cineon 14.2.1 (14.2.1 x001)

   Clouds 14.2.1 (14.2.1 x001)

   Collada 14.2.1 (14.2.1 x001)

   Color Halftone 14.2.1

   Colored Pencil 14.2.1

   CompuServe GIF 14.2.1

   Conté Crayon 14.2.1

   Craquelure 14.2.1

   Crop and Straighten Photos 14.2.1 (14.2.1 x001)

   Crop and Straighten Photos Filter 14.2.1

   Crosshatch 14.2.1

   Crystallize 14.2.1

   Cutout 14.2.1

   Dark Strokes 14.2.1

   De-Interlace 14.2.1

   Dicom 14.2.1

   Difference Clouds 14.2.1 (14.2.1 x001)

   Diffuse Glow 14.2.1

   Displace 14.2.1

   Dry Brush 14.2.1

   Eazel Acquire 14.2.1 (14.2.1 x001)

   Embed Watermark 4.0

   Entropy 14.2.1 (14.2.1 x001)

   Extrude 14.2.1

   FastCore Routines 14.2.1 (14.2.1 x001)

   Fibers 14.2.1

   Film Grain 14.2.1

   Filter Gallery 14.2.1

   Flash 3D 14.2.1 (14.2.1 x001)

   Fresco 14.2.1

   Glass 14.2.1

   Glowing Edges 14.2.1

   Google Earth 4 14.2.1 (14.2.1 x001)

   Grain 14.2.1

   Graphic Pen 14.2.1

   Halftone Pattern 14.2.1

   HDRMergeUI 14.2.1

   IFF Format 14.2.1

   Ink Outlines 14.2.1

   JPEG 2000 14.2.1

   Kurtosis 14.2.1 (14.2.1 x001)

   Lens Blur 14.2.1

   Lens Correction 14.2.1

   Lens Flare 14.2.1

   Liquify 14.2.1

   Matlab Operation 14.2.1 (14.2.1 x001)

   Maximum 14.2.1 (14.2.1 x001)

   Mean 14.2.1 (14.2.1 x001)

   Measurement Core 14.2.1 (14.2.1 x001)

   Median 14.2.1 (14.2.1 x001)

   Mezzotint 14.2.1

   Minimum 14.2.1 (14.2.1 x001)

   MMXCore Routines 14.2.1 (14.2.1 x001)

   Mosaic Tiles 14.2.1

   Multiprocessor Support 14.2.1 (14.2.1 x001)

   Neon Glow 14.2.1

   Note Paper 14.2.1

   NTSC Colors 14.2.1 (14.2.1 x001)

   Ocean Ripple 14.2.1

   Oil Paint 14.2.1

   OpenEXR 14.2.1

   Paint Daubs 14.2.1

   Palette Knife 14.2.1

   Patchwork 14.2.1

   Paths to Illustrator 14.2.1

   PCX 14.2.1 (14.2.1 x001)

   Photocopy 14.2.1

   Photoshop 3D Engine 14.2.1 (14.2.1 x001)

   Photoshop Touch 14.0

   Picture Package Filter 14.2.1 (14.2.1 x001)

   Pinch 14.2.1

   Pixar 14.2.1 (14.2.1 x001)

   Plaster 14.2.1

   Plastic Wrap 14.2.1

   PNG 14.2.1

   Pointillize 14.2.1

   Polar Coordinates 14.2.1

   Portable Bit Map 14.2.1 (14.2.1 x001)

   Poster Edges 14.2.1

   Radial Blur 14.2.1

   Radiance 14.2.1 (14.2.1 x001)

   Range 14.2.1 (14.2.1 x001)

   Read Watermark 4.0

   Reticulation 14.2.1

   Ripple 14.2.1

   Rough Pastels 14.2.1

   Save for Web 14.2.1

   ScriptingSupport 14.2.1

   Shake Reduction 14.2.1

   Shear 14.2.1

   Skewness 14.2.1 (14.2.1 x001)

   Smart Blur 14.2.1

   Smudge Stick 14.2.1

   Solarize 14.2.1 (14.2.1 x001)

   Spatter 14.2.1

   Spherize 14.2.1

   Sponge 14.2.1

   Sprayed Strokes 14.2.1

   Stained Glass 14.2.1

   Stamp 14.2.1

   Standard Deviation 14.2.1 (14.2.1 x001)

   STL 14.2.1 (14.2.1 x001)

   Sumi-e 14.2.1

   Summation 14.2.1 (14.2.1 x001)

   Targa 14.2.1

   Texturizer 14.2.1

   Tiles 14.2.1

   Torn Edges 14.2.1

   Twirl 14.2.1

   Underpainting 14.2.1

   Vanishing Point 14.2.1

   Variance 14.2.1 (14.2.1 x001)

   Variations 14.2.1 (14.2.1 x001)

   Water Paper 14.2.1

   Watercolor 14.2.1

   Wave 14.2.1

   Wavefront|OBJ 14.2.1 (14.2.1 x001)

   WIA Support 14.2.1 (14.2.1 x001)

   Wind 14.2.1

   Wireless Bitmap 14.2.1 (14.2.1 x001)

   ZigZag 14.2.1

Optional and third party plug-ins: NONE

Plug-ins that failed to load: NONE

Flash:

   Adobe Paper Texture

   Mini Bridge

   Adobe Exchange

   Kuler

Installed TWAIN devices: NONE

I really hope there will be an update for this! It all really slows me down in my work.

Not to mention the torture of waiting for everything.

Specs:

MAC PRO (new one / end 2013)

MAC OSX / 10.9.4

Wacom Intuos 5 (with latest driver)

Processor  3,5 GHz 6-Core Intel Xeon E5

Memory  32 GB 1867 MHz DDR3 ECC

Video  AMD FirePro D500 3072 MB

I am also experiencing super duper long lag and sometimes full on crashes with Adobe CC 2014. It takes forever to even allow me to try and open a document as after Adobe CC 2014 loads it just sits there not letting me choose / click on any of the menu items. Also another issue I'm having when it does work briefly is that Adobe CC automatically changes my fonts as I'm scrolling through the list of fonts rather than waiting for me to actually click on a font I want to use. This dramatically slows me down.

I'm running Windows 8.1 professional 64bit

Dell studio XPS i7 processor 2.7Ghz

24GB Ram with 96% allocated in Photoshop

8MB Cache, 36 History Steps,

3 Scratch disks with plenty of room

Intel 530 - 260GB Solid State Drive for Operating System,  Programs & scratch disk

3TB Toshiba 7200rpm 64mb cache for storage and scratch disk

3TB Seagate External connected via usb 3.0 & used as a Scratch disk

2TB Seagate External

2Tb Seagate External

and CS6 and CC were both running extremely smooth before installing the new update for CC 2014

now both CC and CS6 are running slower and CC is almost at a standstill.

I do have a little over 5600 fonts loaded on my system which may cause a bit of a bottleneck when loading but it used to be once it loaded the fonts Photoshop would do fine after that.

I'm currently running a test on my fonts as I noticed one time a bad font set was causing a ton of my problems before in Photoshop CS6.

Just chiming in to join chorus of folks reporting CC 2014 performance issues on Mavericks.

As a side note:

I initially uninstalled CC in the process of troubleshooting the issue, but ultimately decided I needed to get it back since it worked well, at least.  I cannot believe how difficult it was to figure out how to reinstall it. "Filters & Versions" was impossible to spot.  I searched and searched for a way to get the previous version, both on the site and within the Creative Cloud app.  It was maddening.  Perhaps even more maddening than the original 2014 performance issue.

Sigh.

Is there really still no fix from Adobe ? Seriously ??? I've tried Photoshop CC 2014 on both Mac and Windows machines (both 4-6 months old) and it performs slower then the 386 I had in the early 90's.

Photoshop CC worked great, Photoshop CC 2014 is sloth SLOW!!!

It has NOTHING to do with user settings or hardware, it's a bug and Adobe needs to stop having their support crew acting like it's the user's machine.

User's who say it's snappy, I highly suggest you try a document with alot of layers (alot of text, 50 mb+), it performs miserably.

I uninstalled Photoshop CC like a dummy because I thought 2014 would perform even better, very big mistake because now I can't get CC back!!!

HOW CAN I GET PHOTOSHOP CC BACK INSTEAD OF THIS BLOATWARE THEY CALL 2014 ???

I observe the same issue with PS CC 2014 on a mavericks iMac. i mainly recognize it when switch on/off visibility of layers. The change is visible only after one second or so. Anyhow, when switching off histogram view, it's pretty much instantly refreshing. Maybe this can be of any help.