Hi everyone. I'm having pretty severe performance issues with Premiere Pro. Delays of over 10 seconds between most actions and the action happening, including playback or just selecting a place on the timeline. I've been looking through the posts here and trying out different solutions but nothing has helped. Below are my system specs and the things I've tried already, would really appreciate any ideas. GPU: RTX 3090CPU: Ryzen 9 5950XRAM: 32 GBStorage: 2 1TB nvme's, each is about half full, cache is on one and project files are on the other. I'm dealing with 4k footage but I've scaled them down to a 1080p sequence and also made ProRes proxies.Cache is cleared, drivers are up to date., Premiere up to date.I've rendered them in-project.Ensured GPU acceleration is on.Playback is at 1/4 resolution. None of the above has made any noticeable difference. Would appreciate any thoughts, thanks!

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Premiere Performance Issue

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January 20, 2026
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Hi everyone. I'm having pretty severe performance issues with Premiere Pro. Delays of over 10 seconds between most actions and the action happening, including playback or just selecting a place on the timeline. I've been looking through the posts here and trying out different solutions but nothing has helped. Below are my system specs and the things I've tried already, would really appreciate any ideas.

GPU: RTX 3090
CPU: Ryzen 9 5950X
RAM: 32 GB
Storage: 2 1TB nvme's, each is about half full, cache is on one and project files are on the other.

I'm dealing with 4k footage but I've scaled them down to a 1080p sequence and also made ProRes proxies.

Cache is cleared, drivers are up to date., Premiere up to date.

I've rendered them in-project.

Ensured GPU acceleration is on.

Playback is at 1/4 resolution.

None of the above has made any noticeable difference. Would appreciate any thoughts, thanks!

S

Sumeet_Kumar_Choubey

Adobe Employee

Hi Kay_MacGregor0032,

We're sorry about the poor experience. Let us know the version of Pr you are using. Are you experiencing playback lag specifically in the Program monitor, or is it also present in the Source monitor? Is this happening while working with a specific project or all of them?

Thanks,

Sumeet

Averdahl

Community Expert

How does it go if you create a brand new project and import maybe ten of the video files you are working with? Same issues now as well?

...would really appreciate any ideas.

By @Kay_MacGregor0032

Peru Bob

Community Expert

What version and build of Premiere Pro?

Peru Bob

Community Expert

What version and build of Preniere Pro?

Peru Bob

Community Expert

Try creating a new project and import the old one into it.

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Kay_MacGregor0032Author

I've tried doing this a few times and it has either crashed Premiere or the import worked but the delay between inputs and the action happening became even longer, like a full minute.

Peru Bob

Community Expert

Try Preferences > Audio Hardware and set Input to None.

If that doesn't work, try resetting the preferences:
https://helpx.adobe.com/in/premiere-pro/using/reset-preferences.html

K

Kay_MacGregor0032Author

I appreciate the suggestions! Unfortunately I tried both of these and neither improved things.

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