P: MacBook Pro Apple M2 Max Laggy Liquify

[Abreu.pedro]

MacBook Pro Apple M2 Max 96GB RAM - Photoshop 24.2
I recently changed to this new computer and photoshop is super laggy in tools like liquify and other filters, the brush lags a lot!
Even the zoom is slow.
Even my 2015 MacBook is faster at these tasks.

I don't know what is going on but something can't be right...

[Sameer K]

Hey @Kaladdune. Instead of disabling GPU for Photoshop, press & hold the OPT key when you click on Filter Menu > Liqufy to skip using GPU only for Liquify, and other features will not be impacted.

Thanks!

Sameer K

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Is this the final solution ... or a temporary one ?

[Ismail303430181d7g]

@Sameer K Is this the final solution ... or a temporary one ?

[JSP8475]

Just bought M2 pro mac mini (third one from selection wihtout upgrading cpu) with 32GB ram and 4TB SSD...thought most of the big wrinkles were ironed out by now but nahhh...using mouse to navigat to filter menu and then holding out option key is much faster then diabling GPU support on/off and relaunch but is none the less hassle that piles up when you got loads of images to edit lined in que. PLEASE for the love of GAWD fix this. liquify is one of the core component of Photoshop and should be treated with utmost ungency. 

[JSP8475]

oh, macOS Ventura 13.4, PS 24.5.0, WACOM 6.4.2-4

[ALTR30367170u9l5]

Having the same problem with laggy liquify tool (to the point of being unusable) on the latest Macbook Pro 16 inch with M2 Pro chip running Ventura OS.

The problem occurs on all Photoshop versions from 24.0 up until 24.5. So I'm stuck on 23.5.5 because of one liquify tool when paying subscription to access new features, not cool.

Hope it will be fixed asap.

[ALTR30367170u9l5]

Just wanted to add that I tested on 3 other macs (2 intel mbps 2019 & 2018, one imac 2015) with the same PS versions and everything is smooth with the liquify tool despite computers being much older. So the issue in my case is related to M2 chip. The new laptop has 32GB RAM & 1TB drive, it's super fast for everything except laggy liquify tool.

[JSP8475]

One thing I've noticed is that the "face-aware liquify" works just fine, without any lag whatsoever

Masking in liquify seem to work flawlessly once you click and drag, until you click there's visible cursor lag.

These make me think the lag issue seem somewhat related to the problems I had with previous versions of Photoshop,

only it's showing up in one singular function.

1. I had issue with clone stamp tool where I have "ruler" visible, preview mouse icon would lag, execpt when you click and drag OR turn the "ruler" off from view menu. This bugged me for quite some time, occuring on some versions and not ocuring on some versions since 2017.

2. I had issue with liquify, if I'm remembering correctly, I had to change the tool in liquify to face-aware(a) and then exit. for the next time when I open up in liquify face-aware would be the first default tool I get and this somehow releaved the lag for manual liquify (w).

I think this occured on my m1 mac.

these issues I faced never got resolved immediately nor acknowledged by Adobe with any mention in release notes

I just had to wait boiling over, passing on several version updates

or crossed my fingers and risk updating since Adobe decided to limit the versions you can roll back

(my old 2013 15" MBP still has v21)

[chang soo0101]

I'm having the same problem

I'm really angry

Adobe should take this issue seriously

I have an obligation to solve this problem quickly

[matts59115714]

All the same Same issues here. MPB M2 MAX 

[Basilio Moreno]

Actualmente he cambiado el Mac que tenia no un procesador i9 por otro con procesador M2 max, todo va perfecto, pero hay algo que falla en Photoshop, cuando uso el filtro licuar se pone muy lento algo que a mi parecer no tendría que pasar ya que con mi antiguo Mac no pasaba, será que Photoshop no esta actualizado para trabajar con dichos procesadores de Apple, o estoy haciendo algo mal, alguien podría decirme si le pasa lo mismo y como poder solucionarlo? Muchas gracias de antemano.

[Mark.Dahm]

Adobe is looking into this issue, which appears specific to M2 hardware at this time. Sorry for the inconvenience; we've been trying to route the hardware to the right folks on the team to troubleshoot the issue.

[matthewp8357131]

Same problem here. Just spent a ton on a brand new M2 Max 64GB only to have photoshop liquify performing much worse.

[tyler224160392ji8]

Same- brand new Mac Mini M2 Ventura 13.4, Photoshop 24.5, liquify forward warp running like it's 1998. Meanwhile the 2012 Macbook Pro running Catalina works fine. Lets go Photoshop team, get this one fixed soon!

[Mark.Dahm]

@tyler224160392ji8 , yep, on it!

[Claudia29881183ten3]

Me pasa igual. 
Leyendo a los compañeros me doy cuenta que es un error que trae el M2 con la herramienta de liquar con unas de las ultimas actualizaciones de Ps. 
Algunos cmpañeros dicen que ir a actualizaciones anteriores y les ha ido bien, a mi eso no me ha funcionado. 
De mometo la solución a modo parche es desactivar el GPU y te irá mejor porque si no es imposible usar la herramienta, porque va fatal.

Hasta que Adobe se tome la molestia de solucionar el problema. 

[Mark.Dahm]

We have a possible fix and are testing it now; thanks for your patience.

[Basilio Moreno]

thank you very much for attention

[Studio225987753wr4]

Any updates on this? Our studio has 10 M2 Mac mini and all have them have this problem. 

[Basilio Moreno]

Buenos días. 
de momento no lo han solucionado, pero nos dicen que están en ello. 

[Erin26]

Hello,

There is a fix for this issue in today’s Beta build.  If you try it out before our next scheduled release, please let us know if there is a performance improvement.

Thank you

[Adam28161884k3es]

Liquify has been fixed in the beta build 24.7!

[Basilio Moreno]

He probado el filtro licuar con la nueva actualización y hora funciona perfectamente 

[ppdix]

YES!!!!!! It only took 3 months to fix it but so far so good!

This means so much. 

Please, Adobe, don't let this happen again.

I rely on Liquify and Photoshop for my work and this is great news. But it's been a frustrating 3 months.

One other thing that I am experiencing though is saving a regular jpg takes forever. I've never seen the rainbow ball so much  in previous versions. It started happening a few beta updates ago... Everything has a few seconds delay. 

I have M2 Max with 32GB of RAM. PS should be lightning fast in all operations.

I'm just happy Liquify works!

[Erin26]

Thanks to all who have verified that the liquify issue has been addressed.

@ppdix, would you mind starting a separate thread on the slowness when saving a jpg file so we can track that as a separate issue?

Is it only jpgs?  Any particular size?  Do you remember what beta it started happening in?  Thanks.