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Photoshop Guides slow down the application/make the application sluggish and hard to use

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July 12, 2020
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There is a possibility that this has been an issue in previous version (2019 etc.) but at least in Photoshop 2020 I've experienced very noticeable lagging/sluggishness with the software when I have added guides to a document. The sluggishness is present in simple documents with few layers and complex documents with multiple layers, groups and folders. Of course, the amount of lag depends on the document size but even with a 1024x2048 document at 72 dpi with multiple guide lines, the lag is very much there, affecting even the basic manipulation of the document and even simple panning of it. I can't say I remember it being like this a few years back so I'm wondering what could be the case.

Also, it seems that the ruler bars on the side of the document are more buggy than ever and even those seem to lag when panning the document.

My specs are:

OS: Win10 Pro (updated over Win7 this year)

CPU: Intel Core i7-6700K 4.00Ghz

RAM: 32 GB

GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti (6GB)

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Cheska23293318jh88

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Had the same problem, fixed it after restarting Photoshop. Hope it works for you.

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TFAD1

Inspiring

Anyone still having problems with this? For me it is clearly an issue with the rulers. When they are on, lots of lag, when they are off, nothing. I have a brand new PC with high specifications and use rulers (for guides) all the time.

PS version: 23.2.0

OS: Windows 10 Pro

CPU: Intel Core i9 11900K 8-Core LGA 1200 3.5GHz

RAM: 64GB DDR4 3200MHz

GPU: Quadro RTX 4000 8GB

Changing things in the Performance preferences doesn't make a difference

yoshiw85885273

Participant

I found the problem was fixed in a subsequent version of Photoshop.

yoshiw85885273

Participant

Same here. The issues I had with lag seem to have been resolved with the
recent updates.

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Bradley5E53

Participating Frequently

This is now no longer an issue for me so I guess recent updates to either Photoshop or the Nvidia drivers have fixed this. Still laggy in other ways though (dragging sliders in certain adjustments, moving the curves etc..)

yoshiw85885273

Participant

Same here. The issues I had with lag seem to have been resolved with the
recent updates.

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Jhosep5C3A

Participant

Its not the grid or the smart guide. Its the toggle On-Off autoselect option. when moving in X axis by pressing Ctrl it gets super slow while putin the autoselect ON. I would like to know if there is any option to disable that the Auto-Select box gets active when pressing Ctrl.

jane-e

Community Expert

There are some shortcuts that can be modified and some that can't. The Move tool + Ctrl has worked to select "auto" select a layer since at least PS6.0, many versions before "Auto-Select" was added to the options bar. It cannot be changed.

You can report the slowness that you are seeing to the product developers here: https://feedback.photoshop.com/ . Be sure to give as much detail as you can.

~ Jane

AYGTX

Participant

Same issue

GTX 1650

20 GB RAM DDR4

512 SSD

Windows 10 Pro

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Bradley5E53

Participating Frequently

Exactly the same problem here on 21.2.4. Guides and grid make it incredibly laggy. On Windows 10, 32GB Ram, NVIDIA 1660 Super.

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piotrp59073260

Participating Frequently

Reverting to 20.0.10 fixed all my problems. [Foul language removed by moderator] Adobe. It's a problem for a year at least.

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MarcKleise

Participant

It's definitely the guides. Everytime I open a document with guides the interface stops responding for a good 5 seconds and lags when it's done loading. Disabling the guides makes the lag go away but it's still as smooth as previous versions of PS.

I just switched from PS CC 2018 a few months ago and performance has degraded extremely with PS 21.

Also the checkbox for the guides in the View > Show menu always stays on checked even when I use the hotkey to disable them. Sometimes the view menu doesnt even show an option to enable the guides, but the hotkey always works for some reason.

I7 8700K

32GB DDR4 3200MHZ

Geforce 1080TI / 11GB VRAM

All SSD

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piotrp59073260

Participating Frequently

Same here in 1080ti. It's impossible to work.

deadpxl23

Participant

Same issue here. Photoshop has just been so slow on my system for the past year I've all but stopped using it except when necessary.

Specs:

i7 8700k 3.7GHz

16GB DDR4 3200MHz

RTX 2060 6GB

jane-e

Community Expert

"Same issue here."

Does PS run okay when you turn the ruling guides off?

~ Jane

deadpxl23

Participant

Not at all. But it's a grinding halt when guides are on. Doesn't matter if I do anything about the aliasing for guides, or any GPU acceleration options, either. Overall PS is sluggish from launch, guides are just death to frame rates/response. Input lag, slow load of any file regardless of size, panning, hovering over buttons with no file open, etc are all sluggish.

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