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Photoshop CC - Slight lag

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June 23, 2013
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I've never had a problem with the performance of any Adobe program to date. I've been using CS6 since it was released and on my current computer, Photoshop CS6 was very responsive. I just installed Photoshop CC and was immediately shocked at the slight lag that's present with absolutely everything I do. I've heard reports with previous versions that there was a lag with the brush tool, never personally experienced it but I am seeing it now.

Besides the brush tool, I've also noticed the same 1/2 - 1 second lag when making a selection, zooming, erasing or pretty much any other tool. The odd thing is that it seems to be happening for non-intensive things as well. Even on small documents, if I hold the spacebar and drag with my mouse to pan, there's a 1/2 second delay before the pan starts, then once it gets going it's business as usual.

It seems like a dumb little issue, but when you're trying to work quickly and you're moving around a lot, having a delay before any/every action gets annoying really quickly.

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JC B

Participating Frequently

"Slight lag" is the understatement of the century. Ever since CC 2014 was installed, Photoshop is unusable. I'm on Windows 7 x64 running on a top-tier i7 CPU w/ 16 Go RAM and a discrete GPU. It's become impossible to perform even the most basic image manipulation.

I'm actually experiencing two issues that could easily be conflated:

1) Lag when performing most operations. When the tools do work, they exhibit a slight delay. It takes half a second to for a marquee selection to become visible, or for a paint brush click to show, etc.

2) What some have described as a "freezing effect": Mouse clicks are getting "interrupted" so most operations never get executed. If I start a paint brush operation by clicking the mouse, holding down the mouse button and moving the cursor, Photoshop cancels the operation almost instantly. Instead of seeing a line where I drew one, I just see a dot where I started the operation. If I perform a rectangular marquee selection, it never completes (and there is no selection) unless I do "mouse down - move cursor - mouse up" all within a fraction of a second. Finally, this problem is not limited to the tools, but is reproducible all over the UI. For instance, it's no longer possible to browse the application menus while holding the left button clicked. Usually you can click down on say "File" (File menu opens), hold the mouse button pressed, move the cursor over to "Edit", "Image", "Layer" etc which would cause those menus to open. Now, the File menu remains open just as if I had released the mouse button after having clicked on it.

That's about as good of a description as I can give, but you can contact me by email if your engineers need additional details.

Honestly guys, this is unacceptable. I'm paying good money for this software and I expect it to work when I need it to. There's no excuse for pushing out automatic updates that completely break all functionality.

Noel Carboni

Legend

What's interesting is the complete lack of a pattern with this issue... I've never seen anything on my system that could remotely be called lag with this version. Others have seen it come and go, and still others can't get rid of it.

I can't help but think that the current implementation triggers something in only some display or mouse drivers that causes the delay. JC B, what video card do you have? What display driver version? Do you have a tablet?

At this point, though a fair number of folks are reporting these sluggishness / lag type issues here on the forum, it's possible Adobe feels it's only a minority of users overall who have them. Thus, those of you who do have the issue need to be especially specific and thorough in your reports, in order to make it as likely as possible for an engineer to reproduce it. That may include posting all your System Info, and describing in detail very specific timing descriptions of particular operations, such as JC B has done above.

-Noel

Noel Carboni

Legend

Also, some of the above descriptions make me wonder whether disk I/O operations may be affecting the interactivity of the display.

For those of you experiencing sluggishness / lag, do you see any correlation to the disk activity light on your system? Note that Photoshop opens some fairly large temporary files even before they're needed to support going virtual.

-Noel

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Johannes_Bergcrantz

Participant

Well, that was premature

lag is back.

Interesting observation though, when I first start Photoshop CC everything works, when I've been doing stuff on my secondary monitor for a while and/or in another window on my primary seem to be when the lagging starts.

Edit: Restarting PS removes the lag again, for a while.

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Johannes_Bergcrantz

Participant

I've had the exact same issues with Ps CC since I bought it with a slight lag on everything from zooming to lasso-tool, updating my videocard drivers this morning seems to have fixed it though.

WIn7, 16 Gb ram, Geforce GTX 560 Ti

symph

Participant

Really I have the same delays and cursor freezing effects using all the UI elements and operating with layers (menus, tools, ALL movements) in PS CC 2014. Really annoying and slowing all the work process.

PS CC 2014 is completely unsuitable for fast working

Already tried to make some changes in Preferences > Performance. Nothing helped.

Also tried to turn off the new fast guides and extras. That had a small effect on performance. But still the last PS update is too slow comparing with previous versions. =(

I've got Win8, 24GB, 3.22GHz x 4, SSD, 64-bit.

Can I solve the problem or downgrade to last PS CC version?

C

cmachanic

Participant

CC 2014 is a very disappointing upgrade. Drag and zoom have a 1-2 second delay. Does anyone have a solution?

Noel Carboni

Legend

Have you made sure your system software is up to date?

Choose Help - System Info, copy the data, and post it here. Perhaps someone will be able to spot something amiss and give you specific things to try to correct it.

Do you have a tablet? I've been starting to develop a theory that maybe tablet-mouse interaction may cause sluggishness. I only have a mouse and find Photoshop CC 2014 quite fast.

-Noel

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cmachanic

Participant

Hi Noel,

Thanks for the reply... I just reverted back to CS6, and everything is back to normal. Bummer! I always prefer to use the latest and greatest, so I'd love to get CC 2014 working. Anyway, here's my system info coming out of CS6 (this was clean install), and no, I'm not using a tablet. I disabled that a long time ago. However, I don't know if my update to CC 2014 carried over my my Canon scanner plug-in (i.e. an installed TWAIN device).

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Optimistic_force0D44

Known Participant

Update - i just installed PhotoshopCC 2014 version but sadly and no difference, my secondary GPU still heats on unnecesary

Optimistic_force0D44

Known Participant

Hi!

Has anoyne found solution for this problem ?

I have 2 GPUs in my machine

1. Gigabyte 660GTX OC 2GB
2. Asus 780 GTX STRIX OC Edition 6GB

Both cards ar earoudn 37-38 degree Celsious when using compute rin windows. As soon as i start Photoshop CC my GTX 780 starts to heat up slowly (like 1 degree every 3-4 seconds) and it goes up to 70-75 celsious even if i just leave machien idle or put Photoshop in background. As soon as i QUIT PhotoShop then teperature slowly goes back to normal. IT happens only at 780GTX (660GTX stays fine aroudn 38C) and i've tried 3 different cards and no difference but problem happens ONLY in Photoshop CC (CS6 works fine no GPU heating up) so it has to be some Adobe Glitch/BUG ?

HELP

Chris Cox

Legend

Or it could be another bug in the video card drivers.

Try updating the drivers from NVidia's website.

Optimistic_force0D44

Known Participant

Hardly unlikely 'coz like i said it happens ONLY in Photoshop CC, all other programs (3D and 2D) work fine, even photoshop CS6 work fine.

Also i have latest Nvidia drivers "GeForce 337.88 Game Ready WHQL drivers" for windows 8 64bit

There is some BUG in PshopCC for sure and it's serious one 'coz if i go away from machien and leave PShop open it'll heat like crazy

Please FIX it ASAP, Thanks.

P.S. I can save video if you want to see how it's manifesting.

D

DavidRobot

Participant

I'm having the same issue..Windows 8.1. I've unchecked GPU settings in Photoshop and I'm still experiencing this strange lag. It's very annoying.

I will add that I did not experience this before installing new Wacom drivers (which I installed last night) so there may be a conflict there?

J

joedeagnon

Participant

In terms of lag the only tool that acts wonky for me is the Lasso tool. I'll open a new document and want to select something. The marquee tool is no problem, but as soon as I try to lasso something in any of the three modes, nothing happens. It sits on the tool for a very long time. To get out of this I have to hit the escape key - then it's back to normal. This only happens on opening a new document - both when Photoshop CC is running for a while and when it first starts up. (Closing the doc and reopening it also works) but this happens every day, literally.

ColbyFulton

Known Participant

Yep, my lasso has lag too. I do have a Wacom tablet driver installed by am using the keyboard and mouse when I notice this issue.

P

pinkbunkadoo

Participating Frequently

Getting this problem too. Everything works fine for a bit after launching Photoshop CC, however, after a few minutes things start to lag badly - zooming especially.

Windows 7 64-bit

16 GB ram

Nvidia GeForce GTX 560 Ti

256GB Samsung SSD 840 PRO Series

P

pinkbunkadoo

Participating Frequently

I think this may actually be Wacom tablet related. This behaviour only seems to exhibit itself when I am using my Wacom Intuos 3 with Photoshop. Perhaps a driver issue?

donpark1

Participant

Unchecking "Use windows Ink"... did the trick for me... Control panel - Wacom Tablet properties - Pen - Mapping.... Uncheck the box .

Fixing a drag lag for Wacom tablet in Photoshop under Windows 8.1 - YouTube

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