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July 31, 2020
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Photoshop is extremely slow with grid active

  • July 31, 2020
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When I turn on the grid photoshop becomes extremely slow.

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Cobra Kai
Participating Frequently
November 27, 2020

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

Participant
November 27, 2020

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
Community Expert
Community Expert
November 27, 2020

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

JJMack
c.pfaffenbichler
Community Expert
Community Expert
November 27, 2020

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

Cobra Kai
Participating Frequently
November 6, 2020

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
Participating Frequently
February 4, 2021

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.

Participating Frequently
October 30, 2020

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.

Known Participant
September 22, 2020

Same problem here.

I've found out that the only way to solve this problem is to turn off the graphic acceleration altogether, which I obviously don't want to do.

The GPU is NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060

 

Did someone manage to solve this without turning off the GPU rendering?

nikunj.m
Community Manager
Community Manager
September 28, 2020

Hi,

We're sorry about the trouble with Photoshop. Please ensure you are using the latest version of Photoshop (21.2.3).

 

Have you tried re-installing the graphics card drivers to check if that helps? If not, please try that and let us know if it helps. You can also check: https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/kb/troubleshoot-gpu-graphics-card.html

 

Hope this helps!

Regards,

Nikunj

unhekAuthor
Known Participant
September 29, 2020

Latest drivers, latest photoshop, grid issue remains.
As soon as I turn it on, photoshop slows way down with every move I make, and get's worse and worse. This slowdown will remain even after I hide the grid again, and I have to restart the software.

This is tested on 2 different machines, a laptop, and my desktop, both windows.
One running a 2060  the other a 1080TI, respectively.

Participant
September 16, 2020

It's also been affecting me. I hope the issue would be resolved with an update as I always stay up to date with CC, but I feel like it only got worse.

c.pfaffenbichler
Community Expert
Community Expert
September 16, 2020

Does turning off »Use Graphics Processor« in the Performance Preferences (Photoshop > Preferences > Performance > Graphic Processor Settings) and restarting Photoshop have any bearing on the issue? 

nikunj.m
Community Manager
Community Manager
July 31, 2020

Hi there,

 

We're sorry about the trouble with Photoshop. Would you mind sharing the version of Photoshop you are using along with your computers operating system?

 

You can try optimizing the preferences for Photoshop using the steps suggested here: https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/kb/optimize-photoshop-cc-performance.html

 

Let us know how it goes!

Regards,

Nikunj

JJMack
Community Expert
Community Expert
July 31, 2020

I see the same lag and have seen it repotred here several times.  I do not know if Adobe is addtressing this issue

JJMack