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June 23, 2013
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Photoshop CC - Slight lag

  • 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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Participant
August 29, 2013

I'm having the same problems.. Windows 8 and activated Photoshop CC.

Any solution?

Dr_Romano
Participant
July 8, 2013


20 years ago I use PS 2.x on 100MGz 486 processor. And common operations

took as much time as now. Maybe less. The interface works much faster.

Versions were replaced and at some point I stopped on PS 4.x. My computer

at the time was the 500MHz Pentium III. The PS 5.0, 5,5, 6.0 was released,

I still use the PS4. Bro, that was something. With a gigabyte of RAM and a

RAID0 (2x Quantum Fireball) PS4 was just like a bullet. These were the

best years of my life. Then I updated the version and everything was like

a bad horror movie: getting worse and worse. Something similar to the old

days when I felt just before the release CS3 bought a new computer for

6000 bucks. For a while it was like comfortable work. Before CS4. So

here's a secret: every time when Adobe updates products line, you have to

buy a new computer for 6 grand. No cheating, I'm mean it. The latest

graphics card, the latest disk array, the latest CPU. Adobe will gobble up

everything. Welcome to the modern world, bro. It's way, how it working now.

Recently I meet CC, by the way. On CPU with resulting frequency almost

8GHz (80 times faster than my first PC) and a video card with a gigabyte

of video memory (god, my first PC has five times less disk space) it

like... zombie nightmare.

June 24, 2013

I have same problem with photoshop. And Indesign lags to.

GPU settings is same on both versions

OS - Windows 7

Chris Cox
Legend
June 25, 2013

If both programs show the same problem, it is most likely related to activation or fonts (because that's about all they have in common).

I'd check your system for corrupt fonts, or a corrupt OS font cache.

June 25, 2013

Nope. Photosop and Indesign is trial. And no problems with fonts.

My Photoshop and Indesign CS6 work fine.

When i start Photoshop CC my videocard becomes very hot in 5 seconds.

Photoshop CS 6 work fine.

Trevor.Dennis
Community Expert
Community Expert
June 23, 2013

It definitely sounds like a glitch.  What OS are you using?  Did you import your CS6 settings when you first opened CC.  I'm thinking of your GPU settings in the preferences > performance tab.

Participant
June 24, 2013

I'm guessing it's a glitch as well but I can't get to the bottom of it. If it did import my CS6 settings, I didn't realize it. Either way I compared the performance settings of my two versions and the only difference was that Photoshop CC had GPU enabled and CS6 did not. Changing it does not really make a difference. Going to try and uninstall and reinstall the program now.