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supjackjack
supjackjack
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April 28, 2022
Question

"Target path" is slowing down Photoshop?

  • April 28, 2022
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Years of struggling with photoshop lagging, I think I FINALLY found the culprit.

It's "Target Path" under: View/Show/Target Path

When it's untoggled, my photoshop runs smoothly when dragging objects in the view port. (that or I completely turn off my GPU in performances which makes everything look pixelated)

 

My questions are:

 

  1. why is Target Path slowing down my photoshop? is it so GPU heavy?
  2. can it be "fixed" ?
  3. can it be turned off permanently? (I tried turning it off, but whenever I restart photoshop it comes right back to drive me crazy)

 

my pc spec:

win10

AMD 5600x

RTX2060

32GB ram

1TB NVME SSD

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c.pfaffenbichler
Community Expert
c.pfaffenbichlerCommunity Expert
Community Expert
April 28, 2022

Are you using multiple GPUs? 

https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/kb/troubleshoot-gpu-graphics-card.html#multiple-gpus

Which Advanced Settings have you tried so far? 

 

»I completely turn off my GPU in performances which makes everything look pixelated«

Could you post screenshots to illustrate (including one at View > 100%)? 

supjackjack
supjackjackAuthor
Known Participant
April 29, 2022

Thank you for the reply. I am using just 1 GPU: RTX2060

 

Last night I had a tech support from Adobe try to fix the lag with remote assistance. He made sure all softwares were updated, and also tried tons of things I've never tried before. 

 

At the end of the session I discovered that turning off "Show Transform Controls" would temporarily make the lag go away. (Tech supported noted this, but couldn't fix it)

 

After the remote assistance session, I tunred invidual "Extras" on/off to see which is causing the lag since Transform Controls seemed to be associated to Extras. That is how I narrowed it down to "Target Path" being the culprit.

 

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