Photoshop: CS6 Slow compared to CS5.1 with large files

Like a majority of photoshop users I am acquainted with, I was increadibly disappointed in the immediately perceivable speed issues upon 1st launching .psd CS6.

I use two machines regularly, my 2.2 desktop with 16mb ram, new Nvidia card (machine is about 5ry old, blah blah) and my late 2011 17" Macbook Pro, 16mb ram etc.

Desktop imo has always seemed faster than the laptop, and is much preferable for image editing on etc. for me due to the set up. A typical day has me swapping between the desktop and the laptop while working on the same files quite regularly.

I remember working in .psd 5 on the desktop then reopening the same file in .psd 6 after it had been recently installed.. The most notable issue for me in .psd 6 upon the desktop is moving folders with layers – the machine just lags out, I spend so much time watching the pin wheel. One the laptop this is not an issue, it is institaneous much like .psd 5 was on the desktop.

So from following the threads and from my own experiences using the new .psd 6 – is it a given or thought that .psd 6 only works well on the Mac platform with newer CPUs and not to be recommended upgrading to for older machines?

This is just very frustrating...

thx

Fixed all my CS6 problem and Mountain Lion performance.
What i did? uninstall cs6 and back to cs 5.5.
Even my mac runs smooth, try it, you wont regret it.

Don ́t know what Cs6 did to my mac but it was so sloooooow, with any kind of files.
Now it runs perfect with the cs5.5.

Maybe ill try cs6.1 in the future or something much stable.

All you folks who have experienced performance problems should ensure you get the 13.0.1 update as soon as possible.

Choose Help - Updates in Photoshop if you haven't already been notified of the update.

Or visit one of these links:

Macintosh: http://www.adobe.com/support/download...

Windows: http://www.adobe.com/support/download...

Good luck - I hope the problems are all fixed for you!

-Noel

i just tried the update for mac CS6 extended. It wouldn't update: gave me an error:Adobe Extension Manager CS6 Update
Installation failed. Error Code: U44M1P7

Nudge is still painfully slow with thumbnails on in layers pallete even after 13.0.1 update.

MacOS 10.8
MacbookAir i7

https://twitter.com/eskalationdk/stat...

Same here! Still experiencing jerky thumbnails.

Having said that, the update has fixed the layer dragging problem for me, which is fantastic.

layers dragging is better, but when you release them after dragging it's still several seconds of wait.

i just updated PS to 13.0.1 and made some tests.
sadly i can see only very slight improvement.
dragging groups and layers is better but not as responsive as i'm used to it.
as example dragging the white dots from my test doc is better but the strange thing is that after i move them and let go i get a progress bar right after that???? why?
ok, i could live with this on this large document.

another thing! i was just working on a very small file (300mb).
after working a while on it, PS became extremely non-responsive and slow?
especially painting with a simple circle brush.

curves adjustment i working great now, i don't know if you done something there but this is even better than in cs5.

I'm having slow issues with photoshop 6 as well. I'm a professional photoshop user since 1993, work on 10-15gb files with 100+ layers. I use a MacPro 2x2.26ghz quad core intel xeon. 32GB Ram. Just did a clean install of lion onto an 500gb SSD hard drive. All my files are SATA connected with a 6TB Raid 0. Nothing except for photoshop, bridge and Capture one is installed on this machine. I experience delays on all fronts. even trying to silhouette a 279mb 2 layer file is painfully slow today.

I've disabled graphics processor
Memory usage is set to 70% (21772mb)
cache levels 4
cache tile size 1024
automatically save recovery information every 10 minutes (how much does this slow the system down?

I've PS13.0.1 x64. Slower than cs5.1 in almost evry reation: drawing, moving object, applyng/deapplying masks, handling etc

System info:

Adobe Photoshop Version: 13.0.1 (13.0.1 20120808.r.519 2012/08/08:21:00:00) x64
Operating System: Windows 7 64-bit
Version: 6.1 Service Pack 1
System architecture: Intel CPU Family:6, Model:10, Stepping:7 with MMX, SSE Integer, SSE FP, SSE2, SSE3, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, HyperThreading
Physical processor count: 4
Logical processor count: 8
Processor speed: 3411 MHz
Built-in memory: 16359 MB
Free memory: 13062 MB
Memory available to Photoshop: 14736 MB
Memory used by Photoshop: 50 %
Image tile size: 128K
Image cache levels: 4
OpenGL Drawing: Enabled.
OpenGL Drawing Mode: Normal
OpenGL Allow Normal Mode: True.
OpenGL Allow Advanced Mode: True.
OpenGL Allow Old GPUs: Not Detected.
Video Card Vendor: NVIDIA Corporation
Video Card Renderer: Quadro 600/PCIe/SSE2
Display: 1
Display Bounds:= top: 0, left: 0, bottom: 1080, right: 1920
Video Card Number: 1
Video Card: NVIDIA Quadro 600
OpenCL Version:
Driver Version: 9.18.13.593
Driver Date: 20120818000000.000000-000
Video Card Driver: nvd3dumx.dll,nvwgf2umx.dll,nvwgf2umx.dll,nvd3dum,nvwgf2um,nvwgf2um
Video Mode: 1920 x 1080 x 4294967296 colori
Video Card Caption: NVIDIA Quadro 600
Video Card Memory: 1024 MB
Video Rect Texture Size: 16384
Serial number: :P
Application folder: C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Photoshop CS6 (64 Bit)\
Temporary file path: C:\Users\rick\AppData\Local\Temp\
Photoshop scratch has async I/O enabled
Scratch volume(s):
C:\, 119,1G, 15,1G free
Required Plug-ins folder: C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Photoshop CS6 (64 Bit)\Required\
Primary Plug-ins folder: C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Photoshop CS6 (64 Bit)\Plug-ins\
Additional Plug-ins folder: not set

Hello Adobe,

I too have the slow down issues, changing my prefs to tall and fat did the trick! back in cs5.5 i changed them but couldn't remember to what. once I changed them in cs6 things seem to run fine! (not the same but a lot better!)

another thing i tried was 100% ram, that too sorted the problem, but that's probably not the best thing to do :O

Hello Chris,
Any ideas on when the sluggishness in nudging is going to be fixed?

Ditto. Also I'm seeing some things that suggest that part of the problem is due to Adobe and NVidia not coming together better. I use other software that forces me to keep up with the latest drivers, but it seems PS CS6 Extended is faster and smoother with old drivers. Things like the circle around the eraser brush no longer showing (since PS CS 3 Extended actually, still happens in 3 which I use at my office). I'm no tech but seems to be related to drivers.

I can't switch to any other brand than NVidia and who would want to anyway.

Is this sluggishness happening mainly to those using NVidia Drivers?

On my Mac Pro 10.8.2 with 16GB of RAM and the ATI Radeon HD 5870.....my performance on Photoshop CS6 is still awful. Even the interface is laggy in places.

-Kevin