Photoshop is extremely slow with grid active

[unhek]

When I turn on the grid photoshop becomes extremely slow.

[unhek]

Exactly.

[unhek]

@manuels21470529

[taurrenn9904111]

Adobe is blaming users, when it is OBVIOUSLY a flaw on the program side!!!!!

[DecruJ]

I have the same issue, but I noticed if you don't use subdivisions Photoshop behaved slightly better. A gridline every 8px with subdivisions every 1px was laggy as hell, while set to a gridline every 1px with subdivisions set to 1px was more or less bearable.

[Cobra Kai]

I'm commenting so people know this is a photoshop problem and a serious one. I have read everything, tried everything, I've been using PS for decades, even wrote a book on it, etc... blah blah and 3 grid lines bog my machine down. This needs to get fixed.

[Cobra Kai]

I don't remember if I posted an update but I fixed it. If you go into Windows display settings and tell it to let Adobe photoshop take control of the graphics card it runs perfectly. Otherwise the card is being fought over by windows and PS.

[willpower1337]

I'm not sure how useful this will be, but I have found a sort of work around which allows you to keep acceleration turned on but speed up the grid dramatically.

It is a bit of a compromise though; If you go in to Edit > Preferences > Performance then click the Advanced Settings button under the Graphics Processor Settings. Inside there uncheck anti-alias guides and paths. Click ok, and go to the Guides, Grid and Slices section on the left-hand side. Inside there, under the Grid section, change the subdivision to 1 so you don’t have a million dotted lines in between the main grid lines. Click Ok and exit and re-open Photoshop.

In my case this made it almost as good as with the grid turned off so hopefully it might help some of you guys until this gets fixed properly! 

All the best 🙂

Will 

[JJMack]

Adobe seems to have fix the issue in 2021. However 2021 has other issues.

[c.pfaffenbichler]

Well, »However … has other issues.« seems to be a recurring theme. 

[robotriot]

In version 22.2.0 the problem still persists unfortunately. Adding Photoshop to the Windows display preferences didn't solve the issue for me either.

[aignis]

Updated to 22.3, but still have performance issue both imac pro and windows pc.

When set Subdivisions to 1, it works so slowly.

Try this setting << Gridline every :10 px / Subdivisions : 10 >>

[Cobra Kai]

What worked for me was to go into windows display preferences and add photoshop.exe to the list.