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February 6, 2020
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PS CC 20.1.03 brushes lag, saving slow. Empty 2TB SSD scratch disk

  • February 6, 2020
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OS 10.14.6, 27" iMac 2019 2TB internal SSD, 2TB ext SSD scrtch disk, 1 to 3 GB layered files in PS CC. Internal SSD: 1 of 2TBs available; ext SSD: used only for scratch; both formatted in APFS.

 

What is best way to configure prefs for faster saves/eliminating brush lag?

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D Fosse
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February 6, 2020

Set scratch disk on the internal SSD, not the external.

 

Slow brushing is usually a video driver problem. Unfortunately the video driver is integrated into the OS on Mac, so you can't update it separately from OS updates.

paulgeAuthor
Participant
February 6, 2020

Set scratch disk on the internal SSD, not the external.

 

What are the steps to do this?

D Fosse
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Community Expert
February 6, 2020

Edit > Preferences:

paulgeAuthor
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February 6, 2020

PS   64GBs RAM