Enjoy faster, smoother experience with Performance Improvements in Illustrator

Report · Mar 31, 2025

Hey everyone!

We know that performance is essential to your creative workflow in Adobe Illustrator, and we’re excited to share our ongoing efforts to enhance the application's speed and responsiveness. Our engineering team has initiated fundamental architectural changes aimed at delivering significant performance improvements in the coming months.

The latest Illustrator releases mark the beginning of a comprehensive performance enhancement initiative, with a strong focus on implementing multithreading capabilities in key areas. While this is just the start, you’ll already experience noticeable improvements in common workflows, particularly when working with menus, linked images, and effects. Our roadmap includes extensive performance upgrades, with regular updates planned throughout 2025 and 2026.

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Try out the latest Features and Enhancements in Illustrator.

Recent Performance Enhancements in Illustrator!

Faster File Import

(Open, Place, Drag-and-Drop): Import PNG, JPEG, TIFF, and Photoshop files more quickly from both local storage and network drives, optimizing your workflow.

Enhanced Effects Processing

Enjoy improved rendering speeds for frequently used effects such as Drop Shadow, Blur, Inner Glow, Outer Glow, and Rasterize, ensuring a seamless design experience.

Optimized Layers Panel

Manage layers more efficiently with smoother hide/unhide actions, faster expand/collapse operations, and improved panel scrolling.

Improved Menu Responsiveness

Menus and menu items now open and respond more quickly, allowing you to access tools and complete tasks with greater efficiency.

These updates mark the start of our commitment to making Illustrator faster and more responsive. Stay tuned for more enhancements in the next release by following this page, where we'll continue to share upcoming updates.

We’d love to hear from you!

Try out these new performance enhacements and let us know your thoughts. Feel free to reach out if you have any questions or need more tips!

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Report · May 13, 2025

No. Al contrario. El rendimiento de Illustrator ha caido de forma muy importante. He buscado en los foros si a alguien más le ha ocurrido pero no he encontrado nada. Es exasperante. El resto de programas de Creative Cloud funcionan correctamente. Intuyo que puede tener a ver con el driver de video de NVIDIA RTX versión 573.06.

Report · May 13, 2025

Hello @màquinaria agris35385564,

Could you share more details, like if Illustrator behaves this way when using a particular tool/feature, when working with specific files or files from a particular folder location, along with a small screen recording of the problem (if possible), so I can better assist you?

Looking forward to hearing from you.
Anubhav

Report · May 13, 2025

Hello,

There is no particular situation that cause the malfunctioning. The program runs very slow compared to earlier versions. Particulary on the creation of new files and when zooms in and out. Dragging it's also not fluent. I've attached a video recording where you will see the lag. The document configuration screen doesn't appear on the screen capture, but you know the necessary time to create an empty A4.

I hope you can help me.

Best regards

Report · May 14, 2025

Problem solved!

Once I uninstalled and reinstalled the Nvidia Quadro driver and noticed no improvement, I checked the Illustrator preferences menu and, surprisingly, I saw that the GPU performance option was unselected. As silly as that. Please notice that with the last update process, that important option, for some reason, gets unchecked.

Thks