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Launch/Startup times becoming unbearable.

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November 6, 2021
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Hello, Desktop Photoshop use here. It may just be down to a bug on my PC but the start times on recent version of PS have seemingly tripled since Photoshop 2019.

In 2019, if I wanted to edit a document from Lightroom Classic into PS, it would take about 5 seconds from a cold request (PS not open). With 2020 onwards, it now takes upwards of 15 seconds until I'm able to edit any given image in PS from a cold start. All of the this adds up.

I have 5GB/s bandwidth on my M2 drive, so technically could load up a 75GB program in the 15 seconds PS takes to fire up. Why have the startup times increased so much? Has the whole underlying infrastructure of Photoshop changed? Is anyone else experiencing the same?

Many thanks in advance!

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Trevor.Dennis

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Watch the splash screen as Photoshop loads, and see if you can spot it stalling at any point. If you do, note what process is loading at that point. If it is fonts, for instance, try checking them. There will usually be a tool available for what you need.

For fonts, as an example (with Windows)

Troubleshoot font problems | Windows (adobe.com)

Try launching Photoshop while holding down the Shift key. This prevents third party plugins and extensions from loading, so if the problem goes away I guess you'd need to uninstall all of them and reinstall one at a time.

What are your Scratch disk arrangements? Dodgy drives can slow things down dramatically. Try opening Preferences and clicking on the Scratch Disks tab. It should respond instantly. A dodgy drive might stall Photoshop for a full minute or more.

Do you have a zillion presets? Brushes, fonts etc.? They all need to load on start up.

But your best tool is the splash screen. You can't stop and start it, but if you have a screenshot tool like Greenshot, you can freeze the screen and grab an image. When Photoshop opens, use Ctrl n for new document the size of the clipboard, and paste your screen grab into it.

Ged_Traynor

Community Expert

Hi

Photoshop version 23.0 loads in about 4 seconds and version 22.5.2 takes about 5 seconds on my system

Derek Cross

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About 7 sec on my MacBook Pro 2018 and around 10 secs on my iMac 2014.

Ged_Traynor

Community Expert

Many thanks for going to the effort, Ged. Is that from a completely cold transfer I.E. Photoshop starting from up scratch and not already running in the background?

Many thanks for going to the effort, Ged. Is that from a completely cold transfer I.E. Photoshop starting from up scratch and not already running in the background?
By @CeeBee2001

Yes that was Photoshop starting from scratch and not running in the background, it was about 5 seconds for Photoshop to load and another 2 seconds for the image to appear, so 7 in total

Derek Cross

Community Expert

Welcome to this friendly forum.

Most people don't seem to be having the issues you describe.

Which version of Photoshop and OS?

How much RAM and spare hard disk capacity?

Have you tried resetting the Photoshop preferences, which you can do under the General tab in Photoshop preferences?

C

CeeBee2001Author

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Hello Derek, thanks for having me 🙂 I'm on the latest version of PS 2022, 16GB of 3600Mhz DD4 with 11 assigned to PS. I have 898GB of free HDD space on a M.2 PCIe 4.0 drive.
Both Windows Pro and Photoshop are freshly installed.
I have reset preferences, no change observable.
Up to PS 2019, startup times were always about 5 seconds or below from SSD, even only 10 seconds with a mecahnical drive.

Thanks!

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