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Photoshop extremelly slow on Windows 11 [Public Beta]

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August 8, 2021
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Since I've updated to the Windows 11 beta (21H2), Photoshop is extremelly slow and lagging making it almost impossible to work.

I've already tried unninstalling and reinstalling everything, and change settings (gpu acceleration, cache, etc) but nothing solves this issue.

Does anyone else is having the same problems?

My setup is: Windows 11 Pro - Public Beta (21H2), Ryzen 7 3700x, GTX 1070ti, 32gb ram, Photoshop 22.4.3

I don't have any issues with Premiere and After Effects, but Illustrator is also lagging.

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Correct answer jane-e

@alanc94157700

Here's Adobe Help for Windows 11.

https://helpx.adobe.com/download-install/kb/windows-11.html

Generally speaking, it's a good idea to wait to change your OS until you hear that it's stable and works with your software.

Jane

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a.clausen

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I have installed Photoshop CS5 and Photoshop 2022 on windows 11 (21H2) and I don't feel any slowdown with any of them running alone.

It could be because my computer is a little over the top with memory.

I have 128 gigs on an intel core I7 3.8 gig Intel.

Motherboard MEG Z490 UNIFY (MS-7C71) from MSI. wth a 2 TB SSD disc

My graphic card is a second-hand NVIDIA Quadro K2200 card. running 2 HD monitors and one Cintiq 22

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PHUC5EBD

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The same here

My setup: Core i 7 10700, RTX3060Ti, 32GB RAM, Photoshop 22.5.1, Windows 11 Pro 22000.194

It's slow [slang profanity removed by moderator]

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StewartD

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I legit hope they get this addressed sooner rather than later. It's not like they haven't had access to the OS for a while. Photoshop and Indesign I haven't found are too bad, but Illustrators performance is 100% terrible, esp if you have any of the other apps open at the same time. Never a problem with my Rig under Windows 10 tbh. Thankfully I'm not using the Home Rig all that much versus remoting into the Office and using the Workstation there, however I had to do some Indesign and Illustrator this weekend and it was painful. It doesn't feel like the applications are leveraging either the system Cores, GPU or System RAM effectively and in fact are trying to bogart all the system resources themselves whenever you move between them.

Nancy OShea

Community Expert

Win11 public release version has not been available until quite recently (Oct 4 or 5).

Beta (test) versions are not complete and thus not suitable for production work.

I would not be tempted to upgrade from Win10 to Win11 for at least 2-3 months until all the dust settles. It's unlikely that MS will have sorted all the bugs before then.

Nancy O'Shea— Product User & Community Expert

alanc94157700

Known Participant

I have been unable to load PS latest and going back a few versions for quite sometime. I got hold of Adobe support who had a look remotely and essentially it's a compatibility issue with W11, which they are working on. My laptop uses the MX250 graphics card and it's not happy. Oddly LRc and apps such as Davinci Resolve, DxO Photolab, OBS do not have any issues.

jane-e

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@alanc94157700

Here's Adobe Help for Windows 11.

https://helpx.adobe.com/download-install/kb/windows-11.html

Generally speaking, it's a good idea to wait to change your OS until you hear that it's stable and works with your software.

Jane

D Fosse

Community Expert

"We strongly recommend you wait until we have released a compatible version of your app."

Couldn't be any clearer, really...

joshual85766208

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I have the same problem... also extreme lag in lightroom... this is very bad for me, I'm just editing photos but it seems to take 3 times longer after the Windows update... I may have tpo reinstall Windowqs 10 if it's resolved soon. I should have expected it though on a new release

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ima5FA6

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Is your problem solved?

Nancy OShea

Community Expert

Hi @ima5FA6,

Did you Deactivate Native Canvas as recommended above by @Jeff Arola on Oct 6?

Nancy O'Shea— Product User & Community Expert

davescm

Community Expert

See statement from Adobe at the link below :

https://community.adobe.com/t5/download-install-discussions/using-adobe-applications-on-windows-11/m-p/12412426

That is the current info, I would wait until Windows 11 appears in the system requirements before moving to that OS.

Dave

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Anonymous

Yes, that's what I'm going to do.

@Jeff Arola was able to help me out though. Now it is behaving exactly like in W10.

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Anonymous

None of the solutions worked for me, unfortunately. Any news on when this will be solved?

Now that Windows 11 is officially out, it shouldn't take long to have an update that solves this problem. On Windows 10 the lag was way less noticeable.

I'm using a completely fresh install of Windows 11. Not an update over 10.

Earth Oliver

Legend

you have to wait until Adobe actually releases a new version with Win11 compatibility.

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Anonymous

Yes, for sure.

NickBarker

Inspiring

@linnuz

A quick fix that has worked for me is setting priority of Photoshop to 'high' in 'Taskmanager > Details'.

Under Performance Prefs (in PS), turn 'Anti-alias Guides and Paths' to OFF.

Seems to have fixed the perfomance issues on my machine, for now anyway.

Cheers

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linnuzAuthor

Participant

Thanks I'll try doing this. I've been avoiding editing big projects, some I've been dividing layers between psd files. lol

And thank you for giving me the only usefull reply.

NickBarker

Inspiring

Haha, no problem!

I also noticed the slowdown seems to be an issue after startup, so don't go closing the program if you think you'll be using it in the next hour or so!

Let's hope this get sorted quickly!

NickBarker

Inspiring

I also have this problem, it looks like Photoshop isn't using anywhere near enough ram and is hardly touching the CPU, resulting in extremely laggy and slow performance. This is on a Ryzen 3950x, 64gb ram and RTX2080ti.

I'm also getting strange expression errors in After Effects that weren't present in Windows 10, meaning I'm going to have to wipe everything or install Win10 on another drive.

Illustrator on the other hand appears to work perfectly with no errors, same goes for InDesign.

davescm

Community Expert

None of the applications have yet been released for Windows 11 which is itself still in Beta. Experiment by all means, but I wouldn't go near it on a production machine at this stage.

Dave