Premiere Pro 2023 slow and sluggish compared to 2021

The only solution to this is to go back to Prem Pro 2022. I did everything I could on 2023 to make my sequence preview not spike at 100% CPU and nothing worked. As soon as I went back to PP2022 with the exact same settings I could actually preview my sequence without it being on a still frame the whole time and my CPU is still running high but I can actually see my edits.

This is crazy that Adobe hasn't fixed the problem.

I run 64GB RAM, 5950X CPU, 3080TI GPU all set to CUDA and I cannot even view playback on their 2023 updates when my source footage is H.264 .mp4. Insane.

When is Adobe going to fix this. I've wasted literally hours trying to edit a simple video. The program monitor takes minutes before it updates any changes I make. I'm so frustrated with all the bugs in Adobe products now. I wish there was a replacement, I would bail now. ADOBE FIT IT!

Hello, I would not like to have that issue.

I can edit flawlessly in less powerful computers, therefore, I was wondering if the type of footage does not trigger the issue: what are the settings? is it AVCHD? is it VBR footage, etc. Please state what kind of footage, and the settings used on the timeline. Make sure also to get rid of other programs running at the same time, remove them one by one to check if you do not find the offending one...

I have posted the same issue with no solution whatsoever. The solutions mentioned just does not work for me.
A project I started with no problems became a nigthmare just because I updated Premiere a few times. These updates aren't making any good, simply unacceptable.

Brother,
I thought that was a RAM problem, upgraded it, and nothing solved.
Never had this kind of problem before this version.
Now, it seems that is something related about this update.
Noticed too that there's a lot of issues related about freezing and mainly chopping playback.
It's not possible, Adobe.

Hey, did you ever get any solutions on this? I've been running into a similar situation with '23. My footage is all proxied Apple Pro Res 422 Proxy, and literally across the board on all my projects this is happening. I can't manuever in the software as fast as I was a week ago at all. It's beyond frusturating, I too am behind on projects right now as I am legit working at the rate of a snail. Not only is playback weird, but just moving through the software, the curser on the timeline, and any actions, copy/pasting clips, duping clips, etc everything - is just laggy. I also tried everything you tried in your post. I don't know WTF is going on /: 

Any updates regarding this issue???

Same problem here: sometimes it takes up to 5 seconds to start play, and I am on a lightning fast computer. Premiere Pro is working against me, again. This summer it was not being able to make proxies of slowmotion footage, it took Adobe months to fix that issue. Now this. It is frustrating and it is purely for the love of dynamic linking with After Effects and the habituation of operating in Premiere Pro that I still have some patience left. But I will slowely start switching to Davinci Resolve.

Yeah this is how my cpus was looking when just doing a playback in the source monitor, simple video in 4k 1.28 minutes long.

That looks more like when i render out the final movie, not when just watching.

I run with Dual Xeon E5 2640-v4 2.4ghz 10 core, 128 gig ram quadro p5000 16 gig, but sure the project runs of a regular drive, which should be fine considering it is not red footage at 8k or something, cache is located on an SSD(X:)