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unhek
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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
    Cobra Kai
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    November 27, 2020

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

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      willpower1337
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      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
      JJMackCommunity Expert
      Community Expert
      November 27, 2020

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

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

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

        Cobra Kai
        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
          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.

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            DecruJ
            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.

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              Shigaugis
              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
                nikunj.mCommunity 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

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                  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.

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                  manuels21470529
                  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
                  c.pfaffenbichlerCommunity 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
                  nikunj.mCommunity 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
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                    JJMackCommunity 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
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