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Studio_Nineteen
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May 16, 2012
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Illustrator CS6 - Lagging - extremely slow!!

  • May 16, 2012
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Has any one experinced CS6 Illustrator lagging and responding extremely slow. For example if I try to move a vector graphic it takes a few seconds before it re-freshes and updates. That goes for about everything re-sizing, moving, editing.....

I know it's not my computer. CS5 worked great. My computer is a Mac Pro running with 16GB of ram and solid state drives.

Any one have any suggestions??

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    Bird™
    Participating Frequently
    February 9, 2016

    Workaround:

    Running in windowed mode solves this problem if you can endure floaty windows

    Super Super slow! It got so bad I was waiting over a minute for 8 nudges of a a few simple shapes.

    Purge, Restart, Safe mode, running alone is not solving this problem.

    Ai ,AE and Premiere are all suffering severely from bugs and speed problems throughout 2015.

    Running Ai 2014 might be a solution that we haven't explored yet.

      

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    Bird™
    Participating Frequently
    February 10, 2016

    Update… running in windowed mode… meh. Doesn't lsat long at all then it's awful again. Specially with a wacom

    This has been a really bad year for CC products. 

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    Dirk-Gently
    Participant
    February 9, 2016

    Same here on my Windows 10 PC. I had no problems in the past, but since a few weeks Illustrator becomes extremely slow by time and crashes after a while. Restart helps, but only for a while.

    What is the "Windows mode"?

    Thanks!

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    jvajko
    Participant
    February 1, 2016

    I'm having the same problem on PC. Windowed mode didn't help. Have any solutions been found for this?

    garethw15083132
    garethw15083132
    Participant
    November 26, 2015

    Same here! I have a document that is 5MB large and it is giving me the spinning wheel of death every time i do one little thing! it also took forever to load

    Larry G. Schneider
    Community Expert
    Larry G. SchneiderCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    November 26, 2015

    Have you tried re-saving the file over the original? This will clean out the PDF-portion history cache which might contain lots of extraneous data like old previews.

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    labohemianatural
    Participant
    November 4, 2015

    Same thing happening here! I got a weird message that one of my files contains data that will cause it to run very slow. I have updated my video card drivers, illustrator is fully updated. HELP! I am on a deadline

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    labohemianatural
    Participant
    November 4, 2015

    I also tried to work with other files, little improvement

    timeasley
    timeasley
    Known Participant
    October 25, 2015

    I'm getting exactly the same, I'm on a PC with Windows 10. I'm on a fast machine, Intel i7-4770K running at 3.5GHz with 32GB of fast RAM and a fast SSD.

    It's just taken me nearly an hour to do something that should take about 2 minutes! Literally just load a file, select everything on a layer, and copy it to the clipboard... it's not even a hugely complicated piece!

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    rmgfraker
    Participant
    October 6, 2015

    I'm at my wits' end on this as well. Unbearable slow down after working in a file for 2-3 hours.

    Turning off 'smart guides' and 'snap to points' has not helped as I've seen suggested on other discussions. Plus I rely on these a great deal, so I don't feel like that is a workable solution for me.

    Restarting my computer and/or closing and reopening AI will fix temporarily, but will start to slow down again over time.

    Does anyone else use CADtools for AI? I've wondered if anyone else has experienced issues with that plug in...

    Any and all suggestions welcome and appreciated!!!

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      bjp360
      Participant
      October 9, 2015

      I'm getting the same issue but am not using any plug ins - its really a deal breaker for me - thinking of switching to sketch (with its own issues) or affinity. I'm SO disappointed by this.

      My files are large as I use AI for interaction design with lots of embedded images and many artboards - and I am saving these to dropbox folders - so potentially some issues there I will need to troubleshoot.

      Noticed also when I use github desktop client I get super laggy as github tries to compute all the changes in a binary file (if it is checked into a repo)

      Llaborate
      Llaborate
      Participant
      September 22, 2015

      This is unbearable, any form of editing leaves me with a pause of around 5 seconds before the action is completed.

      Processor

      • 1.4GHz
        dual-core Intel Core i5 processor (Turbo Boost up to 2.7GHz) with 3MB shared L3 cache

      Memory

      • 8GB of 1600MHz LPDDR3 onboard memory

      Storage1

      • 500GB (5400-rpm) hard drive

      Around 12 months old, it has been blasted, might need re-formating but this should be a last resort as its my employment console. All Adobe CC software upto date. Tell me what to do pleaase!

        jwaldeck1979
        jwaldeck1979
        Participant
        September 21, 2015

        Same here... Very slow, even selecting items on the menu has been lagging lately, very frustrating. I also tried removing "smart guides", "snap to point", did everything to optimize Illustrator - all without luck. And I'm running on a machine that's rather old (2011), but has 16Gb of RAM, so I shouldn't be experiencing these.

          ryans60834584
          ryans60834584
          Participant
          September 15, 2015

          I'm also having this same issue. It's almost unbearable to work in. Any good solutions yet?

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