Photoshop :: CS4 Poor Dialog Window Performance With...
Apr 9, 2009
I am running dual 30 inch monitors each one at 2560x1600 resolution, on windows xp sp3 on an nvidia quadro FX 3700M (dell precision M6400 laptop) If I use CS4 from the single laptop screen, everything is fine. However, whenever Im on the huge dual screen desktop any dialog box activity has a very poor performance. For example, I select File>New and the dialog window takes some two to three seconds to draw on the screen... it might not seem like a big problem but it is very very annoying since I am used to the snappy response of the user interface from years of PS use. It really affects my workflow since I work with many files at the same time. Also, the bigger the dialog window the slower it takes to appear. If I select File > Save for Web and Devices, that dialog window will take up to five seconds to appear on the screen. The problem seems to get worse the longer the OS has been working, ie. if the PC is freshly booted the problem seems a bit lighter. So it might be related to video card memory or something. Here's what I have tried so far to solve this:Since what I'm using is a laptop, the driver choices are limited, however I've been able to force install the 181.20 version of the nvidia driver, but it made no difference. All the official driver versions (176 series) from Dell also have the problem.The problem doesn't seem related to Photoshop's use of the GPU as the problem remains while the GPU acceleration disabled.This problem is also present in PS CS3 as well as CS2 CS1 and version 7 which are all I am able to test.I was able to reproduce this problem on a desktop computer with the same setup on an nvidia quadro FX 5500 card. The dialog box window performance is really terrible.I did not notice this problem in any other application that spans the two screens, even high end 3d ones. Ok well it seems from my testing that Photoshop is simply bogged down by having such a huge desktop area to work with.
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May 14, 2009
I have just installed CS4 on XP64bit. It seems that the performance of both 32 and 64 bit versions is much lower than under 32 bit XP. Especially, this applies to graphics and GUI rendering. I have installed the latest nVidia driver and applied a registry patch, allowing GPU acceleration but with no result.Will be grateful for any advice.The hardware is Q6600, 8GB of RAM, GeForce 8600GT, at least 100GB of disc space for temp files.
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Installed Lightroom 5 upgrade. On LR 4 I can export a 55 slideshow as MP4 with 1080p preset using all four cores on a win7-64 (Intel I7) in about 6-8 min (used 70-80% processor). In LR5, the CPU never goes above 15% processor and takes 45-50 minutes. I can flip between the two (not at the same time) to test. Luckily, no catalog changes other than what the automatic conversion did.
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Interestingly, I see a ".aac" and ".m4v" in the destination directory during the rendering process (they eventually goes away and are replaced by the ".mp4" at the end of the rendering export process).Â
Why LR5 is not taking full advantage of the multi core CPU? How to improve performance in this area?Overall, its very disappointing. I have to go back to LR4 to re-render the slideshows that eventually get exported to a DVD (but that's another story).
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Additional information, when I render the slideshow, it looks like LR4 exports using the native executable (no spawned subprocesses), but LR5 spawns a separate process to handle the export/rendering process.
Executable: C:Program FilesAdobeAdobe Photoshop Lightroom 5SupportDynamicLinkMediaServerdynamiclinkmediaserver1.0amecomman d.exe
Options: --port=50015 --ip=127.0.0.1 d1 m0 --source="D:AAAAAppDataLocalTempslides_export04A7BAA7-5CE4-416E- 9625-E1971F4A7E83.lrcat" --sourceid=bff43513-e0ff-4178-a7c1-54abdfa19386 "C:Program FilesAdobeAdobe Photoshop Lightroom 5SupportVideo Export PresetsH-1920x1080-2997.epr" 00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000 1211250228 1313424203 "" "" "" 0 "V:MP4Vacationslah-blahfilename-goes-here.mp4" 793856f3-1cc5-4a25-adb2-4de660c3aef5 0 104654592000000 128
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I am running the Creative Suite on a PC Windows XP Pro platform and it has been very, very slow. The specifications I purchased far exceed that Adobe says are the needed specs.
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Jul 28, 2009
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Feb 24, 2006
when I pick up a color from the canvas CS2 will choke and slow down heavily for about 3-5 seconds, as though it's a hard task to pick the color up! I'm not completely sure what causes this, because it doesn't happen all the time. I've tried picking up colors on higher resolutions (2000+) and smaller ones but it has proven not to be the cause of the problem. Allthough it does seem to occur more often on bigger resolutions than smaller ones.
And it seems CS2 is also much slower on loading my fonts than CS1 was, currently holding 500+ fonts, a bit much probably, but wasn't that big of an issue in CS1.
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Jul 15, 2009
I have a HP laptop that is about a year and a half old. I've had PS on it for that whole time and upgraded to CS3 last year. The laptop is pretty decent, 17inch, 2.2Ghz Dual Core with 2GBs of RAM, but has/had a small hard drive of only 120GBs. Well when editing pictures that fills up fast especially considering I only have 20GBs free when PS isn't open. So I bought another hard drive (the comptuer has a spot for another one) and I moved personal files (music, pictures etc...) to it and also told Photoshop to use it as a scratch disc. Well now PS is hanging up when I'm doing something as simple as merging layers, let alone doing a batch job of actions. So I'm testing out moving the cache files (scratch disc) back to the other hard drive and seeing if it works any better, but I just wanted to open a discussion and see if anyone has any ideas as to what could cause this if its not the hard drive?
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Jun 18, 2008
I used to run CS2 under XP and everything was fine! A technical fault with the PC caused the hard drive to wipe itself, and for some silly reason I installed Vista when I reinstalled everything.
The PC is very powerful and has plenty of RAM, but CS2 runs very badly on it. It can run normally, usually for the first few seconds of use, but will inevitably slow down.
Anything to do with an onscreen image, such as marking an area, painting, anything. I mean it really slows to a crawl. Positioning the cursor on a location and rapidly moving it to one side, there can be a delay of several seconds before it moves! This really makes the software unusable. Thing is, I cant tie down what it causing it. The CPU use hits 100% which is the obvious reason, but why it is, I dont know. There doesnt seem to be any disc access. Also, it doesnt depend on how large or small the image is. It happens even editing an image as small as 400x400. If there is one thing, then it may well be that it is when the image is enlarged so that it is bigger than the window it is displayed in. In other words, the scroll bars are present. It never seems to happen when they are not present. Does anyone have any ideas? All the drivers are fully up to date, nothing is causing problems. the machine scores 5.9 on the vista performance test and it has 4GB of ram.
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Apr 30, 2007
been working with this CS2 on my PC here at work for sometime but as time goes on it seems to working less and less like it use too..
Take for instance I use the color picker tool and the whole program freaks out as if its trying to allocate ram up. It flickers.. then I wait.. it flickers some more.. and still I wait.. it looks as if its done freaking out, but then flickers somemore and I wait.. total I spend up to 5 mins waiting for CS2 to stop freaking out sometimes, then out of the blue it will begin to work again, but only for a short period of time. Now here is the kicker I am running PS alone.. no other programs, I even end un-needed tasks from taskmanager.
So far I found out the fallow actions makes this occure.
Color Picker.
Closeing Files.
Applying a transform.
Adding Text.
My system specs are
Windows XP Service Pack 2 with latest updates from windowsupdate.com
P4 3.00GHz.
2 GB of Ram.
256MB ATI card.
75-G HD.
My CS2 PS is
Version 9.0.2
Have all the latest update from Adobe Update Center.
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