Photoshop CS6 Lag!

#1

Anyone having slow Photoshop CS6 as well?

Situation:

  • Used CS5 before - absolutely no problem… no lag… everything just perfect.
  • Got myself the CS6 Production Premium pack
  • Using Photoshop now for about 2-3 weeks
  • Noticing real bad lag in pretty much everything!
  • Set OpenGL mode to Minimal (Maximum lagged soo bad!)
  • Set photoshop to have nice amounts of RAM and GPU ram
  • Still laggy
  • Just selecting something + Ctrl-T on it + drag it around and scaling = lags behind… :frowning:

NOT FUN! :frowning:

Also… the all new Crop -tool… it just makes me cry. Absolutely un-usable now… Took me 3 seconds to make a quick selection and press Enter before. Now - its all a mess.

I have:
Intel i7 930
10Gigs 1600Mhz RAM
2x 1Tb HDD 6Gb/s
Nvidia GTX 470
Win 7 x64

#2

There is an option to use old Crop tool.
Not lagging for me, maybe hardware related.

#3

You mean the “Use classic Crop tool mode”?
Nope… It doesn’t help. Is there any plugin that replaces the new Crop tool with the CS5 Crop tool? like… completely…

Also… If its hardware related - then why CS5 worked just fine, but CS6 doesn’t. = means that CS6 is heavier.

Anyway… Anyone has any ideas/tricks on how to make the CS6 Photoshop run as fast as possible?

#4

CS6 doesn’t seem to be known for lag, so it isn’t a widespread problem. It is easier on RAM too, which makes your problem all the more puzzling.

#5

CS6 added a lot of GPU using features and switched many tasks onto the GPU processor. Thats what I have heard… and also noticed. Now with CS6 - even with basic usage like Smudge -tool, makes my GPU go like a little jet engine.

Anyway… the point here was = Does anyone have any iedas/tips/tricks on how to make the most possible performance out of Photoshop CS6?

#6

Yes lag here too, exactly as you describe really choppy when panning the canvas. I have similar specs although my GPU is a GTX275.

I personally find it a bit of a joke tbh. Turning the acceleration down screws with the colour management in fullscreen. Its got to the point where i am seriously considering getting a workstation class graphics card (provided its garanteed to be bug free), still they claim the card is supported, it clearly isnt with that sort of performance, feels like it pans at 8fps or somthing.

Makes the program feel so bloated.

#7

Man… yep. That’s why I made this topic… to find why is it lagging and most importantly, how to make the CS6 work as fast as CS5 was.

“Turning the acceleration down screws with the colour management in fullscreen” What the…? really? I haven’t noticed…
When I find a job - I’ll get myself a fresh new Kepler GTX 670… :confused:

#8

I’ve noticed lag too when panning around in the canvas, and I’m using a Quadro 6000 and 64GB of ram. It just feels a lot slower than CS5.

#9

What did you just say?.. 64Gb RAM?.. xD what the…? haha
Its quite sad… :frowning: I didn’t expect to pay money to get a laggy program… Compared to CS5.

Any ideas how to optimize PS CS6 to make it as fast as CS5?

#10

On the Adobe forums people have said that hiding the layers panel helps. I’ve noticed it helps a little, but still just doesn’t feel as fast as CS5.

#11

A couple of months ago I had had enough of all the bloated fluff in Photoshop, and its limitations in regards to pure image editing. Ever more new “features” that have absolutely nothing to do with Photoshop’s main core tools in regards to image processing and editing (sluggish and semi-useless patched-on 3d tools, video, etc.), slow processing, laggy behaviour, huge installation, the ever-increasing DRM paranoia on the part of Adobe… I had had enough. I want premium image editing tools, and I am not interested in all that other stuff that other software specializes in and Photoshop’s dev team trying to keep up with Mari. I feel like Photoshop has lost its way a bit, and is trying to be everyone’s newest best friend, while alienating the old crowd.

So I switched to Photoline. May not have the fancy pancy Photoshop fluff, but excels in image editing, and actually does it better than Photoshop. And a mere 30mb. It has some rough corners, but so does Photoshop.

#12

I know this doesn’t really help, but I’ve found CS6 to be faster that CS5. I’ve not experienced any lag or similar problems, so it does sound like it could be hardware related.

If it’s any help trouble shooting, I’m running Windows 7 64 bit, 24GB ram, GTX580 (1.5GB) and a 120GB SSD scratch disk.

#13

I totally agree with you.
In my experience and opinion: Photoshop CS3 was THE best/fastest Photoshop that there ever was so far… I loved CS5 though for the Canvas rotate tool… Its pure gold.
I paint digitally in Photoshop… so I personally don’t need any of those fancy filters, video editing… you got After Effects for that… :confused:
As for 3D… I am a 3d student and I have tried it out now in CS6. Here are my results:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-7b5GOZCJs&feature=results_video
And here is the final result: http://j2dab.blogspot.fi/2012/09/yo-i-got-myself-adobe-production.html
Its pretty neat…

Yeah… doesn’t really help. But from the comments so far - it seems that to get rid of the lag you just need to acquire a supercomputer. :slight_smile:

#14

I’m running win 7 x64, 64GB ram with a 120gb SSD too. Only difference is the quadro 6000 card. I think this card just sucks at opengl stuff. or maybe need to play around with finding a better driver

Me and my co-worker were just alking about this, I fee like just installing cs3 or something. I’m so sick of Adobe cramming more and more 3d crap and bloated features into photoshop. I wish tye had 2 versions of the software, one like it is now, and a streamlined version, without all the video, 3d features.

#15

Or simply don’t upgrade from CS5 :slight_smile:

#16

That is an awesome idea!!! Yess :smiley:

the streamlined version would only have all the needed stuff for painting and picture editing. hmmm… basically PS CS3 haha!

Hmm… I bought the student license CS6 Production Premium Pack. Is it possible to downgrade only the Photoshop to CS5?.. then later maybe skip straight to CS7…? :slight_smile:
Somehow I feel those are not really possible.

#17

On the Adobe forums people have said that hiding the layers panel helps. I’ve noticed it helps a little, but still just doesn’t feel as fast as CS5.

Yeah that resolves the problem on my end too, it’s clearly a quality issue on adobe’s part. GTX 2,4,5XX are all high performance, extremely common cards and should burn through this stuff with no issues whatsoever, if they don’t there is somthing wrong with the software.

Adobe uses a completely new UI as of CS6, I know this much

I personally would like to know exactly what is causing this so I can avoid the issue. CS6 is a great update apart from the performance lag.

Anyone have links to the UI discussion on the adobe forum?

#18

wow guyz
so powerfull computers and still lag !
my computer is:

Quadcore
8 GO
ati radeon hd 4650

my little computer is doing good in cs5 (i’m just doing digital painting)
but cs6 is slower

it’s a shame adobe make studios pays for such poor quality product (it makes me feel feel like windows, not so effective product but all people must use it)

#19

I agree on everything you said…

But you know what…? I was expecting it to lag.
Look at this:
http://imagehaul.com/thehauls/fde069abe3bf778eaeabee8dd18593b5.jpg

Now look at this:
PS6 = meh
PS 7 = Legendary
PS 8 = meh
PS CS1 = ok
PS CS2 = bad
PS CS3 = Personally I think the best Photoshop ever
PS CS4 = Personally I think the worst Adobe package ever…
PS CS5 = Great!
PS CS6 = You guessed it!!

:smiley:

I am sooo waiting for CS7 :slight_smile:

#20

Here are some lag fixes ive found so far (wacom driver issues aside)

1st-photoshop is always saving in the background which is probably the main issue… you can turn this off in: Preferences > File Handling > ‘Save in Background’

(beware… this will disable autoback)

2nd- links to the first, if you on a network or using network drive, this problem will get SO much worse, sometimes ill be waiting a minute just to turn on a layer… So sometimes you might have to work on your local drive.

3rd - it might be ur AV… so add ps into exceptions… this wasnt a total fix for the issue for me but did speed things up a little.

hope this helps :slight_smile: