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Photoshop 2020 running slow

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November 19, 2019
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con il nuovo Ps2020 ho problemi di velocità quando uso lo strumento trasforma. E' un problema comune?

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liann4887

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also having this problem, particularly when saving a file. the file size is not very large - in some cases im saving really small JPGs and photoshop just crawls. its painfully slow. the legacy compositing change did nothing to help. Im on a brand new iMac pro and no other apps have problems. just photoshop. so sick of every update somehow making things worse, and your solutions to us are "try this!"---that is your job. dont make your customers do the trial and error for you.

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john olofh35104768

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I also had this annoying porblem, but I believe it is fixed in PS 21,2 that was installed a few days ago. Works fine for me anyway,

stenstro

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I am also experiencing a dramatic slow down of Photoshop 2020. It worked fine for me and then

about 10 days ago started acting slow. I am running Windows 10 on a Dell I9 and Photoshop before

was quite fast. Now it takes 20 seconds to start up and opening a file takes several seconds. When you

click on some of the commands it takes so long to respond that you assume you didn't click. So you click

again and things go wrong.

This has to be some kind of problem introduced in a recent up date. I routinely update my software and

the operating system as updates become available. I am running 21.2.1

Perhaps this will help in finding the problem. I click File from the pull down menu and it responds quickly. Then

I pick open, and it takes 12 seconds for a menu to come up showing files in the current directory. It takes 2 seconds

to open a subdirectory. It takes 7 seconds to open a medium size jpg file. Before these things happen about as fast

as you can click. Definitely something wrong.

I tried some debugging myself. I turned off other software that I though might be slowing Photoshop down. No

improvment. The task manager says Photoshop is using only 1% of the CPU. There are no other applications running.

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GorLEs

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Huh, my photoshop started just now acting all slow. Opening ANY picture (even tried 128x128 jpeg) takes FOREVER. And after that insanely laggy. First I tought i had burnt my RAM but nope. Everything else runs great, even reset all my OC's with mostly negative impact.

Got the newest version, it says it barely uses CPU/GPU/RAM but stutters like crazy. This is not what I am paying for.

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emeryberk

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Photoshop 2020 CC has been driving me nuts too.

So yesterday, I used every bit of the skill I have with PC's and Windows and did the following:

(1) Went back to my adobe.com "CC" page and installed Photoshop 2019 CC (leaving 2020 CC still installed).

(2) Opened Bridge and found out that now NO PDS, JPG or TIF files would open in EITHER version of Photoshop.
Instead would get the message: "No file association with this program. Cannot open."

So obviously, I reasoned, something about installing Photoshop 2019 CC "in addition to" Photoshop 2020 CC, had screwed up my Windows registry's "file associations." The NEXT piece of this puzzle came, when it was IMPOSSIBLE to go into "Default Programs" and then into "Default File Associations" and "re-assign" EITHER version of Photoshop to the extensions, PSD, TIF or JPG. Photoshop did not appear there as an option. The only REALLY lame option was: "Find an App in the Microsoft Store." NO WAY!

(3) Then online I found an article telling how to manually use RegEdit (to edit the Windows 10 "registry" database), and manually type in the "default program associations" for PSD, TIF and JPG files. I did that EXACTLY as follows:

Before EVER messing with the Windows Registry — I ALWAY create a Windows Restore Point.
Do that by clicking on:

type in the white box: restore
Find "Create a Restore Point" at top of the resulting black menu
In the window that opens scroll up or down (if necessary) to find your C: drive
If "restore point" capability for that drive is turned off "OFF", you want to turn that
capability on. Click on the C: drive. Click the "Configure" button;
Click "Turn Restore on" and click OK.
NOW in the same window box, click on the C: drive and click the CREATE button
Name it anything you want, such as: Before messing with Photoshop
When the bar chart finishes click OK or CLOSE.

NEXT . . . Again click

type in the white box: regedit
Find "Regedit" at top of the resulting black menu
Right-click on that and select "Run As Administrator"
click on "YES" (I really want to do that), duh

Then go to the VERY TOP of the RegEdit folder list and click your way through, to:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER
Software
Microsoft
Windows
CurrentVersion
Explorer
FileExts

and thence scroll down to first PSD, then JPG and finally TIF

EXAMPLE:

all of the above folder list, down to: Scroll down to find .psd
CurrentVersion
Explorer
FileExts
.psd
Then --> OpenWithList

Iin the right hand "pane, now double-click on (Default)
and in the blank box that opens, type in EXACTLY: (including the quote marks,
and ONLY ONE space-mark — between Photoshop.exe" and "%1"

"C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe\Photoshop CC 2019\Photoshop.exe" "%1"

Do for both other "usual" Photoshop file associations (i.e., JPF, TIF).

There is no "SAVE" or "OK" button in RegEdit. Simply click its upper right "X" (close program) button to save.

Restart your system.

(4) After doing ALL THAT crap, neither from within Bridge or File Explorer, would double-clicking on any PSD, TIF or JPG file OPEN PHOTOSHOP (either version!!!). SHRIEK!

Then I had a hunch.

(5) I logged back onto my Adobe CC page and noticed that my Photoshop 2020 CC version now had an "UPDATE" button. I decided, what the hell! So I did that. It updated to some later version (the latest).

(6) I logged out, and restarted my PC.

Then I went back into both Bridge AND File Explorer and two FRIGGING amazing things had happened:

(A) All three file extensions now open Photoshop 2020 CC. (I think that that "latest update" went and looked at my manual file associations in the registry, and repointed them to Photoshop 2020CC.)

(b) AND Photoshop 2020 CC now opens consistently in 10-13 seconds (not 40). So all that crapola I did somehow (helped) fix what's been a bug Adobe has been baffled by. I "believe" that until I did all the crap above, Photoshop 2020 had some weird "hunt forever for file associations" bug which caused its stupidly lengthy loading times and other balkiness.

I have NOT un-installed Photoshop 2019 CC, because I'm scared to!!!

So that's all I know, and now Photoshop 2020CC is working great. AND, wouldn't it be FUNNY and "typical," if that Photoshop 2020 CC update was MERELY Adobe finally having fixed its long-standing screw-up (slow loading), and if all my shenanigans above was a total coincidence to that. I'll never know.

AND: There's 3 hours of my life I'll never get back. Thanks Adobe.

chenenid

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seriously. I've been running into issues like crashing and not loading much more intensly for the past 6 months since the update and the issue is still not resolved? More over, since the past few years with constant updates from CC (a 'benefit' comes with the subscription?) all the programs are just becoming less and less stable. I have force quitted PS today for 10+ times just because I wanted to adjust Hue/saturation on a 1000x1000px image? wtf?

Akash Sharma

Legend

Hi there,

Sorry that Photoshop 2020 is running slow unexpectedly. What is your operating system and when exactly is the app running slowly?

Could you please turn on the Legacy Compositing option in Performance preferences?
Choose Edit > Preferences > Performance (Windows) or Photoshop > Preferences > Performance (macOS). Select Legacy Compositing. Quit and relaunch Photoshop.

If the above does not help, please take a look at this article to know how to optimize Photoshop: https://helpx.adobe.com/in/photoshop/kb/optimize-photoshop-cc-performance.html

Let us know how it goes.

Thanks,
Akash

MichaelSGad

Participant

Sorry to say it. The Photoshop 2020 version is trash with completely unacceptable performance on an otherwise pretty fast Windows 10 i5 machine. Same with my laptop and high-end spec gamer laptop. Tried them all and after upgrading to 2020 the performance was noticeably poor compare with 2019. Also, the glyphs popup is the most annoying tool and unnecessary tool made. Really disliking the 2020 Photoshop version.

BTA 86

Participant

Agreed. April 22nd, 2020. Update occurred yesterday and I was hoping it would address this. If anything, I have more issues with spinning beachballs now in both PS and AI after this update. Simple things like trying to scale a layer, basic, or Smart Object, it simply hangs almost to where I am ready to Force Quit, but then it finally snaps out of it after 20 seconds. Same in AI as of yesterday. InDesign is another issue altogether, but this is a PS help page, so I'll not go there. I am responsible for the decisions of what software our agency Graphics Team uses, so I am going to be learning Affinity and sharing the wealth with the team very soon. I have Publisher and Designer on my personal laptop and I am loving them so far. I am going back to 2019 as well, the only problem is that the save for web feature will not work, throws an error, can't remember what right now - general fail. Still, it's better than the 2020 mess.

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