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May 12, 2022
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Photoshop CS5 polygon and normal lasso LAG...

  • May 12, 2022
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So I use Windows 11 pro, and Photoshop CS5 and it's been working fine for months ever since getting this new system. But just today I get back to work like I do every morning and suddenly the Lasso tools are not working as they usually do. It lags like no tomorrow. Polygon you can't even see the lines show up and is frozen even if the cursor is moving, and regular lasso is reeeeallllly slow. I didn't have this problem before. I looked online but most info is for later versions of photoshop. I did follow some suggestions. I have over 300 gigs of scratch space, I have photoshop using 8 gigs of my 16 gig ram, so it's not a memory issue. I reset the lasso and polygon tool several times, even reset all tools when nothing happened. I hadn't done any windows updates recently but found I had some. Updated windows and still no change with the lasso tool lag. I dont want to have to buy a new version of photoshop when all I've required was only on CS5 nor do I have the funds to buy a new version that supposedly "fixes" the lag issue in later versions anyway. Does anyone know how to fix this lag issue with lasso tool on CS5 even after I've reset tools, presets, my computer, put things to default and still have not had any change? I really don't understand how it can suddenly stop working when it was fine a day or two ago.

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Known Participant
December 8, 2023

I too have CS5 and am running Win 10. The text tool is my main issue and there are other lag issues. Had no major problems over the past 11 years I have owned this software and suddenly last week the text tool acts up. I can't see what I am typing. Actually, I can't see any edits I make in real time, whether I am doing a mask or anything else. I have to switch tools to see what I have done. It is really maddening.  Thankfully I do most of my edits to my photos in Canon DPP4, LR or via filters. However, I still need the full functionality of Photoshop. And I can't find what is actually causing the problem and why it showed up out of the blue, only that it has been going on for years and shows up in every version of Photoshop. So there has to be something corrupted in this program.

Known Participant
December 8, 2023

BTW, I have a Nvidia RTX GPU, Intel i7 CPU and 32GB Ram with three drives that collectively are 9TB. So, the problem is with the software not my system.