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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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    davidicus
    davidicus
    Inspiring
    November 9, 2016

    Windows 10, 32GB RAM, 12 processors @ 3.3GHz and SSD.
    shocked that Illustrator continues to slow down, enough that I have trouble selecting tools sometimes. all i'm building are wireframes, so it's pretty ridiculous. i'm going to try disabling GPU performance, since no other options make sense either. so sick of restarting numerous times a day just to keep performance acceptable.

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      qupix
      Participating Frequently
      November 9, 2016

      Does anyone know if it makes a difference with an AMD card? I'm really considering one as I read in several forums that this can solve the problem. I've a GTX 1080 but AI is still so sluggish after a while...I'm getting real pissed about it.

      Thanks.

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      chaconaut
      Participant
      October 31, 2016

      What seems to have fixed it for me was changing the default printer on Windows 10 to the Microsoft PDF Printer. I'm running windows 10 with 64GB of RAM. I tried all of the other solutions in this thread to no avail, but changing the default printer fixed it right up for me.

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      NickChow
      Participant
      October 26, 2016

      Same here!

      OS : windows 10

      RAM : 32G

      CPU : i7-5820K

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        NoxiousPixel
        Participating Frequently
        October 26, 2016

        Looks like I am running the same rig specs you are Nick - I even have a 2gb graphics card.

        I am starting to wonder if all this lag doesn't have something to do with the constant auto updating. adobe and windows combined auto updates are driving me crazy. Between windows doing it's own background monitoring, updating, and all my software checking to see if I'm legal then to have adobe acrobat checking the servers every 10 minutes ... Ok, I could be exaggerating about acrobat but it doesn't feel like it.

        In the end I really think end users need the ability to control when our machines process updates and system monitoring.

        Just my 2 cents, anyone able to correct me or add?

        Archetects
        Archetects
        Known Participant
        October 29, 2016

        Hi
        I will try disable those services and let you know if work better,i also suspect they have some influence on performance.

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        strong_youth0D4C
        Participant
        October 16, 2016

        Hello everyone

        I think i find a problem and fix it . all time my illustrator become very slow, i have 64 GB ram and my PC is also very high configuration also i have WACOM pen display . All i find that the color profile problem make the illustrator slow when you work long time. Also i see that the when i work with Spot color this make illustrator slow also drawing and also oping file. so please set your color profile correctly with your monitor profile and set your graphic card  all option Off it will give you a Good result

        Archetects
        Archetects
        Known Participant
        October 12, 2016

        Hello everyone
        I got good results working in outline mode.
        Also observed if you work Preview on CPU is slower than Preview on GPU.

        NEOINKDESIGN
        NEOINKDESIGN
        Participant
        August 18, 2016

        Not sure if it's been mentioned but I found that turning off smart guides (view>smart guides) cleared up the lag problems i was having with complicated designs.

        zopfan
        zopfan
        Known Participant
        June 20, 2016

        I successfully solved my sluggish problem by selecting (the offending) shape going to 'Stroke' panel and check that no shape in your drawing is having a stroke aligned to 'inside'. You may align the stroke to outside, you may align the stroke to 'center'. But not inside.

        Whenever I aligned the stroke to inside, my drawing/illustration went so sluggish that it wasn't possible for me to work on it.

        gregrock23
        gregrock23
        Participant
        June 19, 2016

        Same problem with 64 gigs of ram. It is not my computer. Unacceptable.

          jing70414671
          jing70414671
          Participant
          April 25, 2016

          hi -

          It seems like the event logging / reporting feature of windows page file is related to, not just illustrator, but many programs' delayed response time on windows 10. For systems with a generous amount of RAM (I would say 16GB or more), disabling windows page file could bring a significant improvement. It means the gradual slow down of Illustrator is not related to the size of clipboard, nor toggling the screen mode.

          Try following:

          computer - properties - advanced system settings - performance (advanced tab) - virtual memory (advanced tab)

          choose "no page file" and click "set"

          restart the computer

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          Form Studio AU
          Participant
          April 13, 2016

          This may sound a bit left field but I have been having the same issue with Illustrator CC 2015 (and the same with PS CC 2015).

          I found that by switching to full screen mode (press F on the keyboard) there is a huge improvement on my machine. (Goes from unusable to pretty decent)

          Not sure if that works for anyone else but am keen to see if anyone can seen the same improvement?

          Let us know.

          Cheers.

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