My Adobe Photoshop auto-updated for me this morning (yay!) but as I have been using it throughout the day, it has started to lag. At this point I wasn't even able to make a selection without having to wait 10 minutes (approximately) before it was ready to move on to the next step. Is there a reason it's running so slow?
Hey guys, was going to give up too. I just randomly unchecked Use Graphics Processor under Preferences>General>Performance and for the first time no beachball in weeks. No promises or logic to back it up, but worth a click to try.
Each update makes the app more and more unusable. The text tool is an absolute joke at this point - something so simple as a text tool should not be so laggy. Also forget adding any guides to a document - it jerks around so much its absurd. I am so fed up with every update making the app worse and worse just to do simple things. And no - my PC is not that old. Adobe have added so much bloat to the app now that it just runs like a snail no matter what you do. Do they not even test their software anymore. It is so ridiculous.
CC Photoshop 2020 would not get past the initializing stage.
First error message said that my permissions were not set appropriately. And to go into Windows explorer and change my preferences.
Check. Done. No change.
As I look through these comments I noticed the recommendation to remove certain presets that might be too large. So I went into my program settings and emptied out the following folders; brushes, materials, meshes, patterns, and render settings.
Check. Done. No change. I've been replaced all those files.
FINALLY FOUND SUCCESS
I finally right clicked my application link, and selected RUN AS ADMINISTRATOR.
It is totally Horrible. I called them and begged for any older version even CS-2 2005 orhopefully up to CS-5 and pay the same. Does not Compute Will Robinson Does not Compute Will Robinson Does not Compute Will Robinson Does not Compute Will Robinson Does not Compute Will Robinson
I've got a copy of Photoshop CS6 and CC 2020 on the same computer and this si absolutely clear that CC 2020 is not working properly. It is slow as hell and I can't even use the lasso from a 1000x1000 document without it lagging. Really? This is a NO-NO for me, even if CS6 is having a lot of stupid bugs that will not be addressed ever. Prefer the stupid bugs to the extreme lags.
Ugh... so frustrated with this new version... Not only is it SUPER slow.... but "lucky me" right after one of their updates it caused my mac to crash with the prohibitory sign... which ended up being so bad I couldn't fix it myself in recovery mode and I had to call Apple for help... which took hours and because of whatever that update did to my mac the only fix was to erase my mac and do a clean install with original settings... I lost everything! My mac is fine again EXCEPT when I open any Adobe 2020 version app... everything slows down to a snail's pace. I'm so ticked off. I've wasted hours because of this inferior "new 2020" version. Adobe what's up? Every new version has always been better than the last... but this one is a failure... PLEASE GET THIS FIXED... waiting for the spinning wheel is not my idea of productive time... Fix it!
Just wondering....when was the last version of PS that the brushes actually worked? Sort of knowing how Adobe operates I am guessing that this version is no longer available to purchase? I am in the position of starting to use PS some, slowly teaching myself the things I need it for. Have not been using the brushes for masking purposes...until the other day. Forgot about the problem, went in and try to use the edge detail brush (or whatever it is called) and had an absolute disaster on my hands. Pretty sad that Adobe is not dealing with this.
Well, a year later and still no fix. I checked every possible stat on my computer and nothing else is running this poorly.
Adobe's UX is non-existent, their UI is a dinosaur, and the dev team couldn't not perform any worse. They had an entire year to sort this out, not that it ever should have been released this way. Time for Adobe to clean house or for a better competitor. Their product line is a mile wide and an inch deep.
The above didn't work for me, but also couldn't find this setting ^ - where is it? Thanks! Installing an older version, btw. I've kept old Premiere versions, but this latest for Ps is unusable.
I found that setting on the 21.2.4 release, but it doesn't exist on 22.0. The previous release is mostly working with Justin's suggestions - a bit laggy at times, but functions at least.
What a miserable heap of unusable trash Photoshop has become in the last year — my God. This is absolutely ridiculous. No other software on my system so much as lags much less crashes. Only Photoshop (Illustrator works but can't decide if it's saving a document or not...it's just a roll of the dice if your document is saved now—NEW FEATURE!)
I think most people who run their own companies don't get paid for troubleshooting other companies software. At least they keep some usuable versions around to install. I went through this whole thing a few years back in Premiere where they cut codec support. If you upgraded and opened an existing project, all the audio didn't work. What a disaster...movie studios using it and then, nada. I find I have to constantly save things, even if auto-save is on as it's not a guarantee it will pull up with your latest edits. You'd think mature software like this (includes MSFT apps as well) would be more stable at this point, but I guess we're all beta testers now.
In case anyone stumbles upon this thread...the latest 2021 update seems to have solved the slow/laggy running issues, but still takes forever to load and is laggy for a few minutes after it loads, but seems to setttle down after that. Maybe it's all the extra features/plug-ins that are now part of Pshop. YMMV.
Neural Filters are cool, but not when they bring your machine to a crawl (especially the "beta" versions).
Adobe: no more new features until it runs smoothly again. Btw, I'm on a Core i7, with 24GB ram, Discrete nVidia GTX 1060 and dual drives. Every other app runs great.
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