Crazy Homeless Guy Posted March 12, 2009 Share Posted March 12, 2009 (edited) We finally received our upgrade to CS4 a couple of days ago. I haven't worked extensively with Photoshop yet, but has anyone else noticed a slowdown in its performance? When I am working in it, it doesn't seem as responsive. The windows drag a bit, things are slow to react, etc... Basically, it seems like one of those upgrades where the code hasn't been fully optimized. It has happened in other software I have used in the past, and it feels like this may be the case for Photoshop. At least this release of Photoshop. Also, my brush size seems buggy, and a few other icons are just simply not showing up. Edited March 13, 2009 by Crazy Homeless Guy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Buchhofer Posted March 13, 2009 Share Posted March 13, 2009 same here, i find the opengl acceleration is pretty poor at best on my 8800gtx768, disabled all that and it feels back to normal. Also noticing brush circles only showing up as partial circles on occasion, but haven't really gotten that to be easily reproducible yet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anejo Posted March 13, 2009 Share Posted March 13, 2009 Hi Interesting. I upgraded to cs4 a couple months back on my personal laptop, haven't had any issues with slow performance with ps or any of the other applications in cs. And this is even with 3ds max running simultaneously. all icon are there, brush work fine. Was it installed locally or over the network? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crazy Homeless Guy Posted March 13, 2009 Author Share Posted March 13, 2009 (edited) Installed as a network deployment. Maybe I will download the demo to try on my home computer to see how the performance compares. I agree about being able to run Max and Photoshop at the same time. It is not that uncommon for me to have several images open in Photoshop, and be running 1 or 2 instances of Max at the same time. But that was with CS3. Edited March 13, 2009 by Crazy Homeless Guy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ihabkal Posted March 13, 2009 Share Posted March 13, 2009 works great here. OpenGL issues I think. it can be disabled in the preferences... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kippu Posted March 13, 2009 Share Posted March 13, 2009 wow cs4 ...let me go pick on my photoshop 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Buchhofer Posted March 13, 2009 Share Posted March 13, 2009 you're not missing much I've found most of the 'new hotness' features that they announced was actually slowing me down. main advantage being the 64bit version being slightly more stable on stupidlarge comps. and occasionally photomerge for quicky panos! But yea, disable OpenGL unless you've got a beastly firegl/quadro I think, and it'll feel much more like CS3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ihabkal Posted March 13, 2009 Share Posted March 13, 2009 main advantage being the 64bit version being slightly more stable on stupidlarge comps. only stability? How about much faster opening files, much faster doing anything, how about that I can assign 6.5GB of my 8GB of Ram to Photoshop and it uses it all up doing wonderful things? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crazy Homeless Guy Posted March 13, 2009 Author Share Posted March 13, 2009 (edited) y But yea, disable OpenGL unless you've got a beastly firegl/quadro I think, and it'll feel much more like CS3 Is this at operating system level, or application level in Photoshop? ...I can't seem to find it. Edit: Never mid, I found them. They are grayed out on my current machine, which has a Quadro 1700. I am going to update to the latest GPU driver to see if that helps. Edited March 13, 2009 by Crazy Homeless Guy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crazy Homeless Guy Posted March 16, 2009 Author Share Posted March 16, 2009 (edited) I started rooting around in Photoshop today, trying to get it to behave like it used to. I was able to disable the tab feature that they rolled out, and that seems to have improved performance. Well, I disabled a few things, but I am pretty sure tabs are what is causing the lag. Not super fast now, but definitely noticeably faster than it was. I guess I expect software to move at a certain clip, and if it isn't, I notice because it is slowing me down. Edited March 16, 2009 by Crazy Homeless Guy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Devin Johnston Posted April 6, 2009 Share Posted April 6, 2009 Travis, I have the same speed problems you are having, I'm using a Quadro 1700 and my GUP settings are greyed out as well. I can't say that I'm all that impressed with this update, I am seeing some strange behaviour in the upper menu bar and just slow performance all around. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeff Mottle Posted April 7, 2009 Share Posted April 7, 2009 Have you guys upgraded to the new version. 11.01? I noticed it sped up a fair bit after I did that. Still testing though. I just upgraded this weekend for a project and it was the first time I found PS to be slow. I was using dual GeForce 7900 GTX cards too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Devin Johnston Posted April 7, 2009 Share Posted April 7, 2009 I just upgraded to 11.0.1 and it does seem a little better. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crazy Homeless Guy Posted April 7, 2009 Author Share Posted April 7, 2009 I haven't ran the update yet, I will do that today and see if it helps. Right now I am noticing that the performance isn't that bad when I fist stat working, but quickly degrades as I wok on large files. Purging doesn't help, but restarting Photoshop does. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeff Mottle Posted April 7, 2009 Share Posted April 7, 2009 I started rooting around in Photoshop today, trying to get it to behave like it used to. I was able to disable the tab feature that they rolled out, and that seems to have improved performance. Well, I disabled a few things, but I am pretty sure tabs are what is causing the lag. Not super fast now, but definitely noticeably faster than it was. I guess I expect software to move at a certain clip, and if it isn't, I notice because it is slowing me down. Have you figured out how to make tabs go away altogether? They do not come up when you use File>Open, but they are still being used if you drag a files into the Photoshop interface. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeff Mottle Posted April 7, 2009 Share Posted April 7, 2009 I haven't ran the update yet, I will do that today and see if it helps. Right now I am noticing that the performance isn't that bad when I fist stat working, but quickly degrades as I wok on large files. Purging doesn't help, but restarting Photoshop does. I found that gradual degredation went away after the update. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fourthand11 Posted April 7, 2009 Share Posted April 7, 2009 Has anyone worked much with EXR's in CS4? Are there more adjustment layers available? Curves? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crazy Homeless Guy Posted April 7, 2009 Author Share Posted April 7, 2009 Have you figured out how to make tabs go away altogether? They do not come up when you use File>Open, but they are still being used if you drag a files into the Photoshop interface. Not yet. They come back for me also. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeff Mottle Posted April 8, 2009 Share Posted April 8, 2009 so last night I was doing some more work and I ran into all sorts of lag when working. Today I upgraded my video card drivers to the latest version and also enabled SLI. Somewhere along the line I disabled it to test something and forgot about it. Once I did that, the performance it lightning fast and responsive. Apparently Photoshop now needs dual GPUs to work properly LOL. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crazy Homeless Guy Posted April 25, 2009 Author Share Posted April 25, 2009 It looks like most the CS4 apps have major UI and performance problems, causing frustration amongst heavy users.... http://adobegripes.tumblr.com/ . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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