Type tool freezes/lags every first time

Question

Every first time after I open Photoshop, when I use type tool to type some word, the program freezes/lags for a long time.

I feel like the program is caching fonts, but this is unacceptable for me.

The experience of smooth work suddenly freezing is terrible, and I'm worried the program might crash, which it actually has crashed serveral times before.

Moreover, previous versions didn't have this problem. I forget when this problem started to occur in Photoshop, it seems to be since the appearance of the Contextual Tool Bar.

Some of my information:

OS: Windows 11 22H2

Photoshop version: 25.4.0 (Always the last version)

I'm not using too many Chinese fonts. And this video shows the lags.

Li6C2A · Answer

I've had similar experience with Photoshop for about a year or so in the latest versions, including a long lag during opening the program, and more recently, a very long lag when typing Chinese in the default font doesn't support Chinese.  In older versions, I could alwasy type first then change the fonts later, but now the program seems to take over for minutes and there's nothing I can do about it except force reboot my laptop.  I frequently reinstall my Windows and Photoshop so system and software are alwasy fresh and clean.

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