Illustrator CC 2017 Extremely slow

I've experienced lags and crashes. Reinstalled Illustrator - but problem appeared again.

Couple days ago I've installed Quick from GoPro - so I uninstall it - and Wow! All is back to normal... I hope)))

A year ago Apple Cloud (on Windows) was somehow affecting Illustrator, now this.

Try changing the windows 10 to 8.1 or installing a preview version of illustrator because i am using a pc of 2.2 ghz, i3, 4gb ram and its working fine. I had the same problem as you with an i7 pc, 8gb ram, but it wasnt untill someone stole it from me that i had to try on this old pc. you can download an older verdion of illustrator by going on "all apps" "previews versiond" on th creative cloud.

Same here slow performance , running on i7-4500U, 12GB RAM, Nvidia GT 740M, Win10

I've been having these issues too - very consistently since last year. I think each update will solve the issue, but to no avail.

After contacting Adobe customer service on this, they recommended resetting preferences. This works for about a few minutes, and then it gets slow. They then suggested increasing the amount of virtual memory allocated. I did, and this seemed to help consistently.

However this week, the problems have come back. This is even after I upgraded from a Quadro 5000 with 2GB VRAM to a Geforce 1060 with 3GB VRAM. Outside of that my comps been the same - 16GB RAM, an i7 CPU, and no other program gives me this problem. Games never run poorly. PhotoShop runs impeccably. Unfortunately, since I went too long without responding (since the virtual memory thing seemed to do the trick for a few days), Adobe closed my ticket and I have to start all over.

I'm reinstalling Illustrator CC 2014 as I'm typing this, and if that works, I'll stay on it until Adobe acknowledges this issue is systemic to their newer builds, and not a matter of flushing preferences, or computers being too old, or anything of the sort. I wish it would work, but I'm at a loss for what to do any more.

This problem has plagued me since cc 2016. I run illustrator on a laptop with a core i7-6700HQ, 16 GB RAM with Nvidia 960m Graphics card. The longer the app is open, the slower my computer gets, especially with a lot of copy pasting across files. Another funny thing is if I open a illustrator file directly, illustrator will fail to use GPU acceleration, it will run on my CPU instead. But if I start the app from the cloud first, then opening a file, GPU acceleration works fine. This is a problem when I work outside with no internet connection,

I am having this same issue on my Windows 10 machine.

After about 10 minutes of opening Illustrator it slows down my entire computer and the longer I leave it - the worse it gets.

To the point that it becomes unusable.

As soon as I quit Illustrator my computer goes back to normal - normal being extremely fast.

This machine runs everything else without any issues (aside from the well documented issue with the text editor in PS CC 2017 - which is also a major bug you need to fix)

Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-6800K CPU @ 3.40GHz (12 CPUs), ~3.4GHz Broadwell-E 6 Core

Memory: 32GB RAM DDR4

Card name: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti

SSD: 960GB

Why is it I can run a computer game at ultra resolution and have great frame rates with zero lag, but I can't change a font in Photoshop or edit a colour in Illustrator without my machine freezing?

Will this be addressed or will we continue to be ignored whilst we pay for this inferior product?

Same here
Windows 7.  Intel 5, Vanilla Intel HD graphics card (I have GUI turned off.)
Emisisoft virus (I have turned that off and it did not change the performance.

The very latest version has speeded it up from its laggiest, but, if I work for more than three or four hours on a file, it gradually bogs down again to being unuseable. If I shut it down and start again, it speeds up again for another three hours. It is not just Illustrator that slows; it's the whole system. So, sometimes, I have to reboot the whole computer. I have plenty of room on drives and Ram overhead. CPU at 2%. So that's not it. I have taken out all plug-ins, reset preferences, etc. as suggested. No joy.

The way the new zoom and scroll works trying to center things is part of the nightmare. Without warning, what I was working on jumps away, and I am in the middle of someplace else even when it's operating at speed. If the card is laggy, it's like pigs in space. It suddenly pauses for ten seconds, then parks my screen in Tinbuctu far away from where I was working. Trying to get back to where I as takes for ever, as each move takes 6-10 seconds getting slower by the hour. Nothing scrolls or moves gracefully or predictably.

Same here... I worked on a AI document with three linked PSD image files (~1-2MB size / item) and the whole system became extremly slow. (Everything, not only the Illustrator 2017.) After I closed the Illustrator, the system returned to normal speed.

I don't know, what causes this :/

Hardware: i7-6700HQ / 24GB DDR4 RAM / nVidia 970M with newest driver / Samsung SM961 nVME SSD (+Win10)

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Sorry for the grammar.

Also having this problem. Have since pretty much CC came out.

comp specs:

Windows 7 64 bit

Processor: Intel Core i7-4770 CPU at 3.40 GHz

RAM: 16GB

GPU: Nvidia Quadro K2000D (I had this installed by my company because of the lag issue - but it's still an issue despite the massive upgrade from the Intel HD I originally had).

Security: Kaspersky, managed by the IT department. I have no control over this.

Also, because of settings by IT, i can't roll back to earlier versions of Illustrator.

Same issue