Photoshop :: CS4 - Clunky And Sluggish
Jan 7, 2009
Just been trial testing CS4 with a keen view to buy. However - on my setup it feel sluggish. I notice the mouse pointer does not move smooothly and in pace with my mouse movements, making mask selections and cloning for example rather problematic.
CS2 work no problems. I am running on Windows Vista 32bit, with a 2.0gz dual core Pentium Dell XPS laptop, with 4GB RAM. A top spec graphic card with latest drivers too. Can't see why it should not perform equally as well as CS2. Anyone got any ideas, as I would really like to sue some of the new features in CS4.
Do I need to un-install CS2 first for example?
I noted also that some modules like MMX don't open properly when CS4 starts up.
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May 19, 2012
during the evaluation of my PS CS6 trial I encountered the following problem. Painting on a layer mask is very, very sluggish once Photoshop CS6 has used up all RAM that has been assigned to it.When I am in 100% view and <shift><click> about 10 times in quick succession it takes almost a minute for photoshop to catch up, often the last clicks get lost and the next click draws a line without using <shift>.
I tried without improvement:
- Different brushes (hard, soft, down to 10px)
- Disable graphics processor
- Disable layer icons
The problem seems to be related to virtual memory handling. Does PS CS6 use virtual memory buffering? The Activity Monitor shows still free memory.In comparison and on the same system, Photoshop CS4 with default VM Buffering remains quite responsive although the RAM usage of PS CS4 (active + inactive) is much lower than in CS6.
Image data
25130 x 9250 px, 16bpc, 95 layers with masks, but 92 of them with non-transparent pixels in only a small area (177 x 236 px)
System data
Adobe Photoshop Version: 13.0 (13.0 20120315.r.428 2012/03/15:21:00:00) x64
Operating System: Mac OS 10.6.8
System architecture: Intel CPU Family:6, Model:44, Stepping:2 with MMX, SSE Integer, SSE FP, SSE2, SSE3, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, HyperThreading
Physical processor count: 6
Logical processor count: 12
Processor speed: 3330 MHz
Built-in memory: 12288 MB
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Problem: Slow performance, when using the brush tool there is a long delay - lag. The brush takes more than 8 seconds to catch up with my strokes.
Software:Adobe Photoshop CS6 x64OS:Windows 7 x64 SP1CPU:AMD Phenom II X4 965 BEGPU:Radeon 6790 OC @ 920MhzRAM:A-Data DDR3 1333Mhz CAS9 4GB (x2)SSD:A-Data 510 128GB SATA3HDD:Samsung SATA 1TB
Tried:
- Memory usage allowed upgraded to 6GB, nothing changed.
- Default selected "Scratch Disk" is the main SSD which has over 58GB of free space, I've tried selecting the secondary HDD as well but nothing changes.
- Disabled the "Use Graphic Processor" square. nothing changed.
- Disabled the "Use open CL" square in advanced Graphic Processor Settings. Nothing changed.
- Changed power management settings in windows to "High Performance". nothing changed.
- Disabling tablet pc service doesn't work.
Notes:
- Graphic drivers are the latest release on AMD website
- Windows is completely updated
- SSD Firmware is the latest available.
- The issue happens both with mouse and tablet.
- 1px brush and 5000px brush lag just alike in zoomed and not zoomed canvas.
- This happens on both x64 and x86 versions of the software.
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