Photoshop CC 2014 is MUCH slower than Photoshop CC in a side-by-side comparison.

Report · Jun 25, 2014

I can run them side-by-side on the same system and Photoshop CC 2014 is literally 2 times slower when selecting layers, hiding layers and moving vector points in pixel increments.

Anyone having this issue? I'm on a 2012 Macbook Pro, 8GB of RAM running Mavericks.

Report · Aug 07, 2014

Just wanted to throw my hat in the ring to say I too have these problems.

Downloading updates now and hoping it's an improvement.

Report · Aug 07, 2014

In quick testing the latest update to CC 2014 has definitely improved performance when working with 100s of layers. I'll update more later when I've had a chance to really put it through the ringer.

Craig

Report · Aug 07, 2014

The latest patch doesn't really do anything for me. My troubles are still with the startup time, which freezes for 2-3 minutes after the program appears to be loaded, and navigating the main menus which freeze and stutter. That's before any files are loaded, but I don't seem to experience any slowdown when actually editing a file aside from a sluggish user interface. Oh, and Bridge seems to have forgotten it's file associations with Photoshop again. Had it fixed after uninstalling and reinstalling but after this patch it's forgotten where PS CC 2014 is once more.

I can't believe I pay for this nonsense every month.

Report · Aug 07, 2014

The latest release appears to have helped quite a bit. I'm able to use most of the tools without trouble, though I've noticed when using the text tool it slows down dramatically. As of now, that is the only residual issue that I've come across.

Report · Aug 07, 2014

The update has helped me to solve the problem of slow operations.

Faster moving (many-layered works well), much better and smoother scrolling and zooming, etc.

The Adobe developers performed a great job, thanks!

Report · Aug 20, 2014

Hello all

I've just installed Photoshop CC (2014.1.0) on my new, kick-ass laptop with Windows 8.

Both the new one as well as the old one (also not a bad laptop) have been experiencing photoshop freeze every time I select more than one layer. The mouse arrow just turns into the default windows arrow and stays like that for a good few seconds.

This occurs when I have around 200 separate layers (all small circles. Tried vector and raster). Merging the layers into one raster layer solves the issue, but that's that the solution I want!

Problem persisted until I tried switching from Intuos Pen and Touch tablet (brand new) to a mouse - all is fine now!

Then I tried touch on the tablet again, rather than the pen - this is fine as well!

It seems that the pen alone causes the CPU usage to go up (not that high, actually) and for the app to become unresponsive for a while.

It never crushed on me though.

I have hidden the thumbnails on the layers palette, and the font previews. Changed Performance settings to Tall & Thin. Installed the latest update from Wacom.

Any tips?

I shall remain tormented using my mouse until someone can sort me out

Report · Sep 02, 2014

JSYK

After being fobbed off by Adobe on their online chat, I went to Wacom, which replied

"Unfortunately Adobe changed a lot with CC 2014 without notifying or explaining it to Wacom.

At the moment you can try if disabling ‘use Windows Ink’ helps. See the attached screenshot for clarification.

Apparently the new PS does not start Wintab anymore and therefore all related functions do not work. Windows Ink is not supporting special Wacom tools like Airbrush or Artpen. There can be problems with delays and with rightclicking in PS. - A workaround for rightclicking is moving the pen a bit while pressing the rightclick button."

They gave me a workaround for the issue, which worked. Later on they've sent me an updated driver and told me to uninstall the old one before installing the new one.

ftp://ftp.wacom-europe.com/pub/WINDOWS/WacomTablet_6.3.9w3.exe

Report · Sep 01, 2014

yuppp... i have same problem... the photoshop CC2014 is muchhhh slower than photoshop CC 14.2.1, and i can't work with photoshop CC2014 because its very lagging when drag object, brush, hide/show layer, etc.

i'm using latest macbook pro 2.3 i7 Quad Core, 16 Gb RAM, 512 Gb PCI-e SSD.

here is my system info.

Adobe Photoshop Version: 2014.1.0 20140730.r.148 2014/07/30:23:59:59 x64

Operating System: Mac OS 10.9.4

System architecture: Intel CPU Family:6, Model:70, Stepping:1 with MMX, SSE Integer, SSE FP, SSE2, SSE3, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX, AVX2, HyperThreading

Physical processor count: 4

Logical processor count: 8

Processor speed: 2300 MHz

Built-in memory: 16384 MB

Free memory: 12168 MB

Memory available to Photoshop: 14706 MB

Memory used by Photoshop: 85 %

3D Multitone Printing: Disabled.

Touch Gestures: Disabled.

Windows 2x UI: Disabled.

Image tile size: 1024K

Image cache levels: 6

Font Preview: Medium

TextComposer: Latin

Display: 1

Main Display

High DPI Monitor

Display Bounds: top=0, left=0, bottom=1200, right=1920

OpenGL Drawing: Enabled.

OpenGL Allow Old GPUs: Not Detected.

OpenGL Drawing Mode: Advanced

OpenGL Allow Normal Mode: True.

OpenGL Allow Advanced Mode: True.

AIFCoreInitialized=1

AIFOGLInitialized=1

OGLContextCreated=1

NumGLGPUs=2

NumCLGPUs=2

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glgpu[0].GLMemoryMB=2048

glgpu[0].GLName="NVIDIA GeForce GT 750M OpenGL Engine"

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glgpu[0].GLVendorID=4318

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glgpu[0].GLRendererID=16918311

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glgpu[0].glGetIntegerv[GL_MAX_VARYING_FLOATS]=[124]

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glgpu[1].glGetIntegerv[GL_MAX_VERTEX_TEXTURE_IMAGE_UNITS]=[16]

glgpu[1].glGetIntegerv[GL_MAX_TEXTURE_IMAGE_UNITS]=[16]

glgpu[1].glGetIntegerv[GL_MAX_DRAW_BUFFERS]=[8]

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glgpu[1].glGetIntegerv[GL_MAX_VARYING_FLOATS]=[124]

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clgpu[1].CLMemoryMB=2048

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License Type: Subscription

Serial number: 96040997639878119255

Application folder: /Applications/Adobe Photoshop CC 2014/

Photoshop scratch has async I/O enabled

Scratch volume(s):

Macintosh HD, 465.1G, 182.5G free

Required Plug-ins folder: /Applications/Adobe Photoshop CC 2014/Adobe Photoshop CC 2014.app/Contents/Required/Plug-Ins/

Primary Plug-ins folder: /Applications/Adobe Photoshop CC 2014/Plug-ins/

Installed components:

adbeape.framework adbeape 3.4.0.29366 0.1160850

AdbePM.framework.framework patchmatch 2.0.00.32543 79.554276

AdbeScriptUIFlex.framework AdbeScriptUIFlex 6.3.2.32394 79.550992

adobe_caps.framework adobe_caps 8.0.0.13 1.248010

AdobeACE.framework AdobeACE 2.20.02.32634 79.554120

AdobeAGM.framework AdobeAGM 4.30.33.32634 79.554120

AdobeAXE8SharedExpat.framework AdobeAXE8SharedExpat 3.8.0.32260 79.551013

AdobeAXEDOMCore.framework AdobeAXEDOMCore 3.8.0.32260 79.551013

AdobeBIB.framework AdobeBIB 1.2.03.32634 79.554120

AdobeBIBUtils.framework AdobeBIBUtils 1.1.01 79.554120

AdobeCoolType.framework AdobeCoolType 5.15.00.32634 79.554120

AdobeCrashReporter.framework AdobeCrashReporter 7.0.1

AdobeExtendScript.framework AdobeExtendScript 4.5.5.32401 79.551519

AdobeJP2K.framework AdobeJP2K 1.2.2.32511 79.252744

AdobeLinguistic.framework 20256

AdobeMPS.framework AdobeMPS 5.8.1.32565 79.553444

AdobeOwl.framework AdobeOwl 5.0.33 79.552883

AdobePDFL.framework AdobePDFL 11.0.0.32477 79.510482

AdobePDFSettings.framework AdobePDFSettings 1.4

AdobePIP.framework AdobePIP 7.2.1.3399

AdobeScCore.framework AdobeScCore 4.5.5.32401 79.551519

AdobeUpdater.framework AdobeUpdater 6.0.0.1452 "52.338651"

AdobeXMP.framework AdobeXMPCore 79.155772 79.155772

AdobeXMPFiles.framework AdobeXMPFiles 79.155772 79.155772

AdobeXMPScript.framework AdobeXMPScript 79.155772 79.155772

ahclient.framework ahclient 1.8.0.31

aif_core.framework AdobeAIF 2014.0.00 2014.0

aif_ocl.framework AdobeAIF 2014.0.00 2014.0

aif_ogl.framework AdobeAIF 2014.0.00 2014.0

amtlib.framework amtlib 8.0.0.91

boost_date_time.framework boost_date_time 8.0.0.0

boost_signals.framework boost_signals 8.0.0.0

boost_system.framework boost_system 8.0.0.0

boost_threads.framework boost_threads 8.0.0.0

Cg.framework NVIDIA Cg

CIT.framework CIT 2.2.6.32411 155804

CITThreading.framework CITThreading_boost 2.2.6.32411 155804

dvaaudiodevice.framework dvaaudiodevice 8.0.0.0

dvacore.framework dvacore 8.0.0.0

dvamarshal.framework dvamarshal 8.0.0.0

dvamediatypes.framework dvamediatypes 8.0.0.0

dvametadata.framework dvametadata 8.0.0.0

dvametadataapi.framework dvametadataapi 8.0.0.0

dvametadataUI.framework dvametadataUI 8.0.0.0

dvaplayer.framework dvaplayer 8.0.0.0

dvatransport.framework dvatransport 8.0.0.0

dvaui.framework dvaui 8.0.0.0

dvaunittesting.framework dvaunittesting 8.0.0.0

dynamiclink.framework dynamiclink 8.0.0.0

ICUConverter.framework ICUConverter 3.61 "gtlib_3.0" "." "16615"

ICUData.framework ICUData 3.61 "gtlib_3.0" "." "16615"

LogSession.framework LogSession 7.2.1.3399

mediacoreif.framework mediacoreif 8.0.0.0

PlugPlugExternalObject.framework 5.0.0.62

PlugPlugOwl.framework PlugPlugOwl 5.0.0.74

UpdaterNotifications.framework UpdaterNotifications 8.0.0.14 "8.0.0.14"

WRServices.framework

Required plug-ins:

Embed Watermark NO VERSION - from the file “DigiSign.plugin”

Export Color Lookup 2014.1.0 x001 ï¿½2012-2014 Adobe Systems Incorporated - from the file “Export3DLUT.plugin”

Read Watermark NO VERSION - from the file “DigiRead.plugin”

Render Color Lookup Grid 2014.1.0 x001 ï¿½2012-2014 Adobe Systems Incorporated - from the file “Export3DLUT.plugin”

Optional and third party plug-ins:

Bokeh Bokeh 2 2.0.0.339 15869 Copyright � 2010 Alien Skin Software, LLC - from the file “Alien Skin Bokeh 2.8bf.plugin”

Plug-ins that failed to load:

Alien Skin Autolayer 3 NO VERSION - 32-bit plug-in not supported in 64-bit - from the file “Alien Skin Autolayer 3 Carbon.8li.plugin”

Bokeh NO VERSION - 32-bit plug-in not supported in 64-bit - from the file “Alien Skin Bokeh 2 Carbon.8bf.plugin”

Flash:

Installed TWAIN devices: NONE

Report · Sep 01, 2014

I had the same problem on my MBP, OSX10.9.4 with CC2014. I got it to run as fast as CS6 by changing the cache levels to 5 and changing permissions as described in this link Updated to Photoshop CC 2014 - Right after launch stays on spinning wheel for very long before it's ....

Hope this helps.

Report · Sep 02, 2014

hello, thanks for your help. i already try to change my permission, but it seem, the problem still exist here are i posted the screen video of my problem. in this video you can see lag on photoshop CC2014, but there is no lag on photoshop CC14.2.1

Adobe photoshop CC2014 Lag - YouTube

thank you...

Report · May 10, 2015

I'm having a similar issue, once I've loaded a file photoshop cc 2014 is unresponsive, slow, pauses on tool or ui changes. Eventually its completely un-usable.

I've tried:

Resetting my Preferences

Uninstalling Photoshop CC

Uninstalling Photoshop 2014 and re-installing

Turning off 'Use GPU Processor'

Changing Cache Levels from 2 to 4 to 6 to 8

Updating Kaspersky 2014 Internet Security to the latest version 15.0.2.361.

Change 'sniffer.exe' to '~sniffer.exe'

Nothing is working, lost for what to try next. I have an angry client waiting on me, but I'm completely stuffed by this one.

PC Details

Windows 7 64bit

Asus P8Z68-V

Intel Core i7 2600K

DDR3 16GB

Graphics NVIDIA Geforce GTX 970

Report · May 11, 2015

My system is a lot less than some of what I've seen posted but I don't see and slowness in PS CC 2014. Only thing I noticed is since the last updates, Bridge takes forever to load. I did say in another thread that I think they should rebuild PS, make it cleaner and tighter. JMHO

Specs

intel 970 6 core @ 3.2g

12g ram

amd radeon hd 7750 2g

500g Samsung 840 ssd

Report · May 11, 2015

If you set the Bridge process to startup upon powering up your computer, you won't see the long delay when starting the application.

Report · May 11, 2015

Yes I tried enabling brisge on start up. but unlike it should bridge actually starts and opens when I do that requiring me to close it. Not like it did using cs6.

Report · May 11, 2015

You don't need to close it cyberwasp, just minimize it. You enable it at start up and minimize it and just leave it running, so that when you need it, it's already launched and ready to go.

Report · May 11, 2015

We had the same or similar problem when PS first came out with GPU use and it was the graphics driver that was causing the issues (slow and tool issues). The drivers that are found on the computer manufacturer's site are not always the latest, updated drivers. therefore, suggest you go to the Nvidia site and use Option 2 and scan your system for the most current driver.

http://www.nvidia.com/Download/index.aspx?lang=en-us

i have an older toshiba and now keep the drivers updated directly from the Nvidia site---don't have GPU performance issues anymore.

And have you tried completely turning off your Kasperkey ?

Lastly, have you called into Support? They can remotely connect to your box and see what's happening.

Report · May 11, 2015

Have you tried disabling Font Previews to see if that helps?

Type > Font Preview Size > None

Report · May 11, 2015

Just a reminder to make sure you try using Photoshop with a mouse, not a Wacom tablet (assuming you are using one).

Photoshop CC 2014 is MUCH slower than Photoshop CC in a side-by-side comparison.

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