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InDesign 19.4 Windows 11 Performance Issues: Extremely Slow Text Editing and Moving

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August 2, 2024
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Hi,

Not sure what is going with adobe but their apps performance is going worse and worse. I have latest nvidia studio drivers, 2x rtx 2080ti, 16 core 5950x cpu, 128 GB ram, windows 11 and this is the result of all money I spent do have solid rig:

Working in indesign is so slow in 19.4, if I want to edit text, it takes ages. Or move. Whole life I am using high performance view that I never had issue with.

Here is the video how slow it is. : https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/nwz0idwcw4od9cc54gi24/Z-znam-2024-08-02-182107.mp4?rlkey=y9xk887i1cof0dlghq7v7v8o8&dl=0

Tired again of the performance. Adobe CS6 was so good so I don't get it why when someting is working, adobe mess with it.

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Narray_5692

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When working or having complex graphic, even I have experienced it. Please try the following, Turn off preflight and right click on the pasteboard > display performance > Fast display

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Pedro369032337mujAuthor

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I got this. Still. If it can't handle high quality, it rises question. In other app we can work with hires smoothly so what is wrong with indesign? Again we live in 2024, we are playing with AI content generating, Musk wants to offer Neuralink implants into brain, but Adobe can't make a hell blast fast solid stable app?

Robert at ID-Tasker

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I got this. Still. If it can't handle high quality, it rises question. In other app we can work with hires smoothly so what is wrong with indesign?

By @Pedro369032337muj

But it's rather something wrong with your software + hardware combination.

Even @kmoodysoh confirmed, that at home - everything is working perfectly fine for him - only his PC at work is affected.

leo.r

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I watched your video, and you're definitely experiencing abnormal behavior. It's not typical at all.

In addition to all the other suggestions, did you try to run the standard troubleshooting steps:

https://www.rockymountaintraining.com/adobe-indesign-rebuilding-preferences-cache/

kmoodysoh

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I've been having this exact same issue since upgrading my PC. I'm on a Xeon Gold 6140 with 32GB of RAM. Also using an Radeon RX590, not that that matters on Windows, unfortunately.

Everything is incredibly slow on any InDesign file. The same files works flawlessly on my Macbook.

kmoodysoh

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@kmoodysoh

You NEED to give it a few hours to finish initial "housekeeping" - there are a few threads and the solution is always the same - leave it alone for a few hours.

This has been happening for months. It's been left open over an entire weekend several times before, both with a file open and without. Housekeeping should have been LONG since finished before I begain responding on this thread.

I'll leave it open overnight without a file open since I'm about to leave work for the day and look at it again in the morning since I just reinstalled, but I doubt that is what's going on here. This has been an issue for me since I upgraded my system back in April. I have reinstalled one other time during that time and have since just dealt with it, but it's getting really old.

Robert at ID-Tasker

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@Pedro369032337muj

How big is your INDD file - in MBs?

How many linked objects do you have in your file?

Or they are embedded?

Do you work locally or remotely - network, cloud, external drive?

What kind of drives do you have?

Which AntiVirus software do you use?

How many fonts do you have installed / activated in your system?

2x graphics cards do not accelerate work in the InDesign in any significant way.

Number of cores doesn't matter - InDesign is still a single thread application.

And why do you have to work on highest display settings?

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Pedro369032337mujAuthor

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No offense I think those questions are like for age beign on Pentium 2?

How many linked objects do you have in your file?

Or they are embedded?

Linked files, very small

Do you work locally or remotely - network, cloud, external drive?

NVMe 7400/6500 MB/s SSD PCIe4

What kind of drives do you have?

SSD

Which AntiVirus software do you use?

Really?

How many fonts do you have installed / activated in your system?

Using blazing fast adobe service like Adobe Fonts

2x graphics cards do not accelerate work in the InDesign in any significant way.

Still it operates like on software engine or something.

Number of cores doesn't matter - InDesign is still a single thread application.

Well that sucks.

And why do you have to work on highest display settings?

Because I can? If there is that feature, why should not I?

I have simple 2 page leaflet nothing crazy. All adobe apps suppose to work like pushing the limits. Not spending all the time on forum, why their badly witten apps are so slow.

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Pedro369032337mujAuthor

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I don't know. It fill like the crazy world we live in and with all that political agendas, it seems to me that many adobe users are defending that having choppy slow broken apps is the new normal. Adobe is multibillion company so having questing what kind of Antivirus do I have in 2024. I bet I live in modern Europen country and working in 16 years in this field and it's getting worst and worts. If Adobe can't use all benefits from strong GPUs and all cores, well then something is wrong. Not on my side.