Edge Animate program itself running slow

Question

The Edge Animate CC program itself is running really slow on my work computer right from the start the first time I installed it. When I try to do anything the response is sluggish at best, and often the “Not Responding” message comes up. After about 30 seconds to a minute, it unfreezes and the operation completes. Other CC programs including Dreamweaver, Photoshop and Flash run fine – it is just Animate. Animate also runs normally on my home computer. Reinstall was no good.
The computer is a Dell desktop with a Core i5-3330 processor and 8G of RAM running Windows 8 Pro 64-bit.
I’m afraid this may be one of those rare obscure issues that is impossible to resolve, because I can’t find anyone with a similar problem online, so any hopeful suggestions would be welcome.

Answer 1

Thanks Darrell for adding more light into this situation.
In your message you point three elements :
heathrowe wrote:
Just to clarify, the CC applications, Edge Animate included, does NOT need to access Adobe cloud services to run or operate. You need a paid subscription to go beyond the 30 day trial, but that is the extent of it (aside from the Sync to Cloud services available in other Adobe CC applications, but Edge Animate does not have this feature/option).
What is needed, to run smoothly,
1  is that you have Admin privileges (Win) | Mac, on your machine;
2  your machine meets the required specifications;
3  grant firewall access to a localhost port; this is the one that causes issues with most folks. Upon first installation you should be prompted to 'accept' or 'reject' Edge Animate to communicate to a localhost port. It is required to 'accept' otherwise, the preview option will not work, because your firewall will kick in and reject the request.
This doesn't answer the lag question, in and of itself, but if you install EA without meeting, say #2, the required specifications then you will hit some snags. If you meet the specifications (#2) but you don't have Admin privileges (#1), then you still might hit some snags because the machine you operate, as a Guest account for example, limits you from say 'Read and Write' operations ( a simple example, but ultimately depends on the limitations of a non-admin account).
Darrell
1. I do have Admin privileges on my PC
2. My machine has more than the specifications :
     a. It runs an i7, 64 processor
     b. I have 12 Gb of DDR3 Ram
     c. I have loads of space of my 240GB SSD and 1Tb HDD
     d, Available screen resolutions are way above what is required
3. Upon installation I was never prompted to accept or reject anything. Here are the steps I went through:
I. I first installed the trial of Edge Animate and before trying it (why did I not wait a second...)
II. I bought a license for Creative Cloud...
III. Then I tried it and it was laggy.
IV. Then I swore extensively in French Canadian. A necessary step in recovering from screwing yourself.
V. Then I tried all possible means of enhancing the performance but to no avail...
Maybe there's something that could be done with this "granting access to a localhost port"... But you say that without it, the preview option will not work... But the preview option (you mean Ctrl+Enter?) DOES work... So I'm still confused...
Back to step IV, I guess.