Hello there everybody. I use the 3D filters / effects mapping of art via symbols ALL the time. Now on an iMac with High Sierra and the latest Ilustrator, whenever I use these effects and map art, my 24GB RAM Machine with 2GB GPU grinds to full stop. To be precise, it halts Illustrator. The rest of the machine continues to work find. But on average the time for a render is 6min with any mapped art. That does not make sense and is near impossible to work with. Toggling GPU performace on or off did not make any discernable difference I m afraid. My little MacBookPro Retina with just 8GB RAM still does the work loads faster but I cant just work with it anymore for other reasons. Here´s my current specs: Illustrator 22.0.1. iMac (27-inch, Mid 2011) 3,4 GHz Intel Core i7 24 GB 1333 MHz DDR3 AMD Radeon HD 6970M 2 GB External Monitor: Samsung SyncMaster SA850 Wacom Cintiq 13"HD Still using my old Retina MacBook Pro via Screen- and Fileshare. I did unplug that to see if Harddisk activity between the two could be a source of slown down, however unlikely. Made no difference. Anyone got any idea what I could do to improve this? Everything is a fresh install, just about three days old now. So any help, tips and tricks will be highly appreciated. Deadlines are looming and I m suddenly forced to work at a snails pace. aaarrrggghh. So thank y´all in advance for your help. cheers & smiles Wolf
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