Photoshop Element lag, high cpu usage on left mouse
Hi,
My System
System:
Lenovo thinkpad T530 (optimised for performance)
Windows 10 64 bit with all updates
Gaphic card: Intel 4000
RAM 8GB
HDD: SSD Samsung Pro 250 GB
Photoshop Elements 2018 with all updates
Problem description:
only Photoshop is started, no other programs
on empty white layer if I try to use some of the tools like brush, pen, eraser, ellipse tool, also hand tool
with use I mean only click and hold left mouse button without any movement of the mouse
the cpu usage goes rapidly to ~ 35-40% after long work with the tools (on images) the system performace goes down.
and even if I release the left mouse button cpu need more time to recover.
What I already tried:
- Performance settings (like decrease history, cache level)
- I tried different settings for RAM starting with 70% up to 83%
- I deactivated also the use of Graphics Processor for adjsuting Facial Features
- i tried to play around with opacity, flow, spacing, sizes of the tools
- i reseted also preferences of photoshop
- i reseted also the tools, the brushes
I tried also on my older laptop thinkpad T500 with Photoshop Elements 12 and ther is the same behavior
conclusion
ther is something in Photoshop what causes extremly high cpu usage on holding left mouse button
Maybe there is someone who had the same problem, and hopefully ther is a solution for this problem.
thanks in advance for your responses/suggestions
KR
Jarek
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