I'm not sure when it started but whenever I use the brush tool there is a workflow killing lag as the brushstrokes on screen struggle to catch up. What is going on? I read earlier about there being some issue with smoothing but no matter what I do it persists.
Posted 2 years ago
Adam Jerugim, Employee
I'm on the 2017 iMac, 4.2 Ghz, 64GB RAM, 8GB GPU, main image on the iMac, palettes on the 2nd monitor.
I've been using it on advanced GPU since I've bought it this fall, only recently it seems to be lagging, so it must be a recent PS update.
I've been using it on advanced GPU since I've bought it this fall, only recently it seems to be lagging, so it must be a recent PS update.
Jeffrey Tranberry, Sr. Product Manager, Digital Imaging
Can you tell Adam whether either of the trouble-shooting steps improve painting or not? That might give him the clues he needs to help solve this issue for you.
Yes after even disabling the GPU, painting is still lagging. Same with hiding tabs.
Jeffrey Tranberry, Sr. Product Manager, Digital Imaging
For #1 - Basic also didn't have any effect? (Note: you have to close all documents for this change to take effect)
For #2 - just to confirm, you hid all panels, correct? (You mention tabs, so not sure if you've simply disabled document tabs)
For #2 - just to confirm, you hid all panels, correct? (You mention tabs, so not sure if you've simply disabled document tabs)
eartho, Champion
What is your Smoothing setting in the options bar?
Same issue on a Win10 64bit machine, Nvidia Quadro 4000 graphics. I've tried the fixes mentioned here without succcess and hoped 19.1.2 would fix it but was disappointed. Tried them again today, still no joy BUT then I went to the advanced tab and enabled "Use Open CL" and voila - no lag. Then I disabled "Use Open CL" - still no lag. In fact I tried more or less all the combinations of Graphics Processor settings and couldn't provoke the lag. Then I started writing this post, went back to PS to check something and the lag is back and the Open CL trick doesn't work. ARGGHH!
Jeffrey Tranberry, Sr. Product Manager, Digital Imaging
Wow. That's very strange behavior. Seems to indicate some sort of graphics card issue/conflict. Did the computer ever sleep? If you look in the system info, is there anything about a driver crash?
Which driver would I be looking for? Is this not a memory leak?
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Jeffrey Tranberry, Sr. Product Manager, Digital Imaging
It will show up something like this in the system info (Launch Photoshop and select Help > System Info... )
Image cache levels: 4
The GPU Sniffer crashed on 8/19/2017 at 7:19:39 PM
OpenGL Drawing: Enabled.
Image cache levels: 4
The GPU Sniffer crashed on 8/19/2017 at 7:19:39 PM
OpenGL Drawing: Enabled.
Adam Jerugim, Employee
Adam Jerugim, Employee
I went back to PS CC 2018 v19.0 and so far I do not see a big lag, but not 100% certain. I do not think the lag started that long ago so I don't think going back to CC 2017 is necessary.
Unfortunately after downgrading to v19.0 from v19.1.2 it deleted all of my workspaces and settings. Luckily I was able to restore everything from my boot drive backup.
Unfortunately after downgrading to v19.0 from v19.1.2 it deleted all of my workspaces and settings. Luckily I was able to restore everything from my boot drive backup.
eartho, Champion
have you tried lowering the Brush Smoothing settings?
