Cs6 slow, lagging performance

[happy_Mercury15A8]

As in the title, I have Photoshop cs6 and I cannot make it work properly. It's almost as the program was running on a much slower system. Common optimization has given no results. I can wait 5 seconds or more before seeing the effect of a command or brush stroke.

Cs5 gives no such probelms. I have a 64 bit Windows 7, but 32 and 64 bit versions behave the same.

[happy_Mercury15A8]

I'm about to give it for lost. I really want to use the software, but I really can't work like this. My only hope would be to format and re-install everything, but I'm not going to do that; it just so happens that I need the computer to work...

[Chris Cox]

So far we haven't reproduced any such slowdown in house (even on really dirty systems).

We have heard from people who have older video card drivers causing slowdowns, and bad anti-virus software (esp. Norton) causing slowdowns.

[happy_Mercury15A8]

Well my video card is rather new, and I have no Norton. Did you try it on systems with a triple-core processor, like mine? I really  think it could be due to that because I see no other possibility.

[Chris Cox]

We've been running on everything from single core to 32 core systems.

Most likely there is still something else on your system that you haven't told us about causing the slowdown.

[happy_Mercury15A8]

But what could it be? Any suggestion? I've run anti-spyware and antivirus software, cleaned useless files and registry system, defragmented, just about anything that could help a normal user.

I so much want to format every stupid thing and start from a clean system, and maybe I'll do just that in the weekend.

[Chris Cox]

Try turning off other software and utilities to see if they may be interfering.

Yes, sometimes it's easier to start with a clean drive and reinstall everything slowly to see where a conflict occurs (which explains why I have 4 bootable OS volumes, plus a stack of spare drives here at home -- yes, I am a Fry's frequent shopper :-).

[Guest]

Video Card Renderer: GeForce 9800 GTX/9800 GTX+/PCIe/SSE2

This might be you're problem

On CS6 I've tried GT 240, GTX 9800+ and GTS 450

Personally I didn't found a way to enable MPE in CS6 with the the GTX 9800+

[Noel Carboni]

Microbilla wrote:

... cleaned useless files and registry system, ...

Ugh, don't tell me you ran a "registry cleaner".

(This for others reading this thread) You really need to avoid registry cleaners.  They don't do a lot of good, and they introduce a lot of potential problems.  The registry does not need cleaning!

-Noel

[Artur Obrzut]

I have exactly the same problem

Similar configuration, same system, Intel i7 processor