Improving CS4 Slowness tips

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I'm sorry, but this fails the relevancy test. It's OK to respond to someone making a complaint by pointing them at an external location (provided that the extenal location isn't entirely a commercial exploit of your own), but starting a topic in this fashion with no context and pointing to a web page that only mentions InDesign in a link at the bottom which points to an essentially empty page is just not acceptable.
Dave

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CS4 Slower than CS3 ?

Hi people,
i have just installed the Trial of CS4
but on my computer, it appear really slow !! (the CS3 was running without
any problem)
my computer is :
Intel pentium 4 - 630 - 3.3Ghz
2GB DDRII 4300
HDD sataII
GeForce 9600 GT
What is also weird , i enable the OpenGL Drawing (normally my 9600 GT is
supported) but with this option psp is slower and buggy ! normal ?
so my PC is not powerfull enough for CS4 ??!!
what is the minimal requirements for running CS4 ?
thank people

There is so much written on these subjects that I can't repeat it all in a simple reply.
I suggest you browse through the topic headers for things like CS4 slow, CS4 is a disaster, CS4 lag. etc.
Oh, and update your video card drivers! :)

ID CS4 slow after pasting text from MS Word

Each time I paste text from a Word document into my ID CS4 document, ID begins to run very slowly. I can't even type properly. Has anyone else seen this?
I have fixed this problem by copying all the text and pasting in the a new document (I thought the document was possibly corrupted). This fixed the problem, but it has happened multiple times now. Much of my information comes from engineers' word documents, so this is not convenient.

The best I can tell, it is related to the cross references, and that it happened after pasting was coincedental. It could have been that pasting made a cross referenced section move to another page, so it was trying to update.
The cross references are a little buggy:
EVERY time I create a cross ref from the cross ref menu (in the cross ref window), ID CS4 (with all patches) crashes. If I create them from the Text menu (at the top), it doesn't crash.
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Help Improving CS4 Performance

I'm using Premiere CS4 on a Macbook with OS X 10.6.2. I have a new project with one video track and one audio track. The audio plays fine but the video doesn't. It isn't anywhere near real-time and often only renders a frame every few seconds. Exporting a six minute video/audio project can take 1.5+ hours. I'm not sure if it is my project settings or my machine. I'd like help trying to figure out where the bottle neck is.
Here are my Macbook specs:
2.0 Ghz Intel Core 2 Duo
4GB RAM
5400RPM HD w/ 5GB free space but can vary up to 10GB
NVIDIA GeForce 9400M w/256MB RAM
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Import from Canon 5D Mark II. Source is 1920x1080 HD.
Project sequence settings are:
Editing Mode: HDV 1080p
Timebase: 23.976 frames/second (I'd like a 24p film)
Frame size: 1440x1080 vertical 16:9
Pixel Aspect Ratio: HD Anamorphic 1080 (1.333)
Fields: No Fields (Progressive Scan)
Display Format: 24fps
Preview File Format: I-Frame Only MPEG
Export Settings:
Format: QuickTime
Preset: Custom
Export Video/Audio
720x576, 24 [fps], Lower, Quality 100
48000 Hz, Stereo
MPEG-4 Video
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Codec Settings: 24 bit
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Thanks. I had an idea it was probably more my system resources than anything.
I'll be getting a Macbook Pro with these specs:
2.54Ghz Intel Core 2 Duo
8GB RAM
Solid State drive
NVIDIA GeForce 9400M graphics
Depending what happens Wednesday with Apple's new product launch, those specs might be improved. This question is more for someone that might already have a similar setup: Should I see a great improvement with that kind of system? How much affect does 4GB to 8GB RAM have?

PS CS4 Slow to open

I downloaded successfully, installed CS4, registered and it is activated. My only problem is it takes a LONG time for CS4 to open. From the time you double click the icon, it seems like it takes forever before the blue box pops up, then it takes longer than CS3 to get to the open program. As far as I can tell, I have the same settings for both programs but CS3 beats it hands down for speed to open. I am running 3 gb of memory, an Intel Quad 4 processor, and lots of disk space. I just can't figure our why it takes forever to open.

Photoshop should launch in under 20 seconds on a normal system (and 20 seconds was the slowest laptop we could find). We currently do not know of anything specific that would cause the launch of CS4 to be slower than CS3 - they should be about the same.
This could be due to several system factors: over aggressive anti-virus software, disk fragmentation, problematic drivers (CS4 initializes the GPU and CS3 didn't), or something we just don't know about yet (there's always some oddball driver or utility out there).

Does 8.0.1 improve the slow startup issue in LabVIEW 8?

Also, does it improve the problem w/ very slow response when selecting "VI properties..."?
Also, does it improve the very slow response when selecting "Format & Precision" on any # (on the front panel & block diagram)?
Also, is the Format inheritance for constant #s using "Create Constant" from the subVI node fixed (i.e., retained type = hex, oct, etc. instead of always decimal)?

I am also VERY disappointed in NI w/ LV8. It's bad enough that LabVIEW owes me a free utility that allows me to move all my code back to good ol' 6.1 or at least 7 or 7.1.
There's no question that LV8 is a piece of crap that is way slower, crashes way more often, hogs way more resources, is far more arcane in the way things are organized, has lots of irritating behavior changes that you can't make it stop doing, has basically none of the enhancements that I feel LabVIEW needs, and has important features removed.
On the other hand, 8.0.1 was a lot faster on startup for me.

CS4 Clone Tool NOT Multithreading and CS4 Slow on i7 965 Processor

I noticed for the first time that the new clone tool in CS4 is not using all of my processors on my new i7 965XE processor. In fact it uses only one processor and this makes it run incredibly slow. I have also noticed that CS4 in general is rather sluggish on this hardware which is supposedly one of the most powerful processors available. I am running the i7 965XE with 8GB of Ram and still find Photoshop rather slow. I would expect it to be super snappy on this hardware, perhaps I need to optimise settings somehow, does anyone have any suggestions or is CS4 not equipped to properly address the i7 processors yet???
Any help appreciated.
My version of CS4 is 11.0

Mike, could you take a moment to reread your original post?
"CS4 Clone Tool NOT Multithreading"
"In fact it uses only one processor and this makes it run incredibly slow."
Those are not observations and represent two direct conclusions, both of which are incorrect. The first conclusion is that the clone tool is not threaded for multiple processors (it is). The second conclusion is that the lack of threading is what makes the clone tool run slow on your system (almost certainly not the case).
Implied in your statements is a third conclusion: that using more processors makes things faster (rarely true). That is a common enough fallacy that I felt the need to offer a more detailed explanation to help you and other readers understand more about the issues involved. I tried to keep that explanation short and simple.
I gave you an alternate hypothesis (small clone area) that could have explained your observation, since you didn't provide enough details for us to rule that out.
I also gave you more information about what is going on under the hood to help you understand why you observed what you did on processor usage.
Then I pointed you to existing topics that offer a much more likely explanation for the slowdown you are seeing.
If you had described with the clone tool slowdown without the incorrect conclusions and without phrasing most of your post as accusations, you probably would have gotten useful help from other users more quickly. Even my first instinct was to ignore your post, but it sounded like you were confused, a bit angry, and needed some help.
I am sorry you read things into my post that I did not intend. I'm simply trying to help you understand what you observed, and find a solution to the problem you described.

Screen redraw CS4 SLOW

Many operations in CS4 are very slow compared to CS3, just a few examples:
- moving parts of an image with the move tool.
- transformations (not the final calculation, but the screen redraw while you drag the handles)
- sreen redraw while you are turning on or off layers.
That is .... anything what needs the screen to be redrawn is much slower than in CS3. OpenGl does not have any influence on that behaviour.
It LOOKS very different with OpenGL on , but "under the hood" the screen redraw is still very slow. Zooming, panning etc. with OpenGL on is very good, but as soon as the screen has to be redrawn (because the content of the picture changes)it is as slow as with OpenGL off.
So the question is:
Why is screen redraw with OpenGL OFF (!)so much slower than in CS3?
In CS3 it so fast that I can hardly follow it with the naked eye.
In CS4 I can see each tile while it is displayed. I`d say it takes about 0,5 sec for one complete screen redraw.
That slow screen redraw IMO is the reason why CS4 feels so slow.
Just compare it on your own system: turn OpenGL off and compare screen redraw to CS3. (BTW. CS3 was way slower in screen redraw than CS2, but you only see that on a slow machine).
My system is a Q6600, Geforce 8600GT with 512MB, 4G RAM, Vista 32bit.
Since screen redraw is very slow with OpenGL OFF it can`t be graphics driver problem.
Another annoyance ist the following (with OpenGL ON):
Lets assume I change something in a picture at a certain zoom level (a brush stroke, curves, a certain filter....whatever)...and then go to another zoom level (zoom in or out) then I see the picture in its previous state (that is before the brush stroke, curves.....whatever) for a fraction of a second before the screen updates. Very annoying!

Just got of the phone to Adobe Support after 1 hour of messing around and was left with the advice " put a message on the forum to let Adobe know there is a problem" Thats what I thought I had just done!! HOUSTON WE HAVE A PROBLEM!!!
I have a Mac Pro - Quad-Core Intel Xeon etc etc etc.... The screen re draw is woeful and the bigger the file the worse it gets. As far as fixes to prefs is concerned, been there done that. Jump though hoops with the Adobe tech and still no fix. Looks like I'm heading back to good old reliable CS3.
ADOBE SORT IT OUT.
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Illustrator cs4 slowing down

I have just recently upgraded to adobe cs4 from cs2 and am wondering why now when I copy a file from Illustrator and click on my photoshop it takes a few minutes for photoshop to load up when it is already loaded and I can do nothing but surf the internet while I wait. While using cs2 when I would copy and illustrator file and paste it into photoshop cs2 it worked seemlessly with no lag time. Now I am waiting anywhere from 3-10 minutes just for it to load. Is there a way to speed this up? I went from 2 gigs of RAM previously and recently upgraded to 4 gigs and am seeinig no signifcant difference. Any and all help would be great. Thanks,

"don't bother trying to save Photoshop files" A 200MB Grayscale Photoshop PSD file, say 12"x17" with 5 spot channels placed in Illustrator saves in about 3-5 seconds. The exact same file as a DCO2 EPS file (the way we'd been doing it for 10 years because the old image setters liked it that way) takes a little under 10 minutes. Since the surge of all-over printing with file sizes reaching upwards of 34"x48" at 200dpi, the files become cumbersome and barely manageable. Discovered it's better to place than embed when you can, do all of it on a drive outside of your OS and scratch disks, Ram drives work, even if it's just 500MB (http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/16518). The lag in Illustrator has a lot to do with the Graphics card and your refresh/quality settings. I discovered yesterday the layer preview window settings (the small image box next to the layer tick) are not persistent but the benefit of turning it off is phenomenal, the same applies to Photoshop. Until they fix it, try to make a habit of killing it off first thing.
I can't tell you what to do when Illustrator simply collapses when saving a file. I take a walk.
The lag and stability issues are on both our PowerPCs and our newer machines and the issue belongs to Apple as much as Adobe. 8GB of Ram on top of 2 dual 2.5s and a 2 gig bus (add that to 3 dedicated scratch disks 2GB Ramdisk, an Intel 160GB X-25M SSD the other a 500GB Raid) should be sufficient to copy and paste between applications... PainterX snaps and pops with no spinning wheel of death, no "not responding" and I've never received "Unable to preview image/ scratch disk full" error during operation even though the file sizes in Painter tend to be much, much larger (resolution, size, and color depth). I'm still interested in seeing Wade's system specs.
Illustrator 10 and Photoshop 7 both run better on our old G4 under 10.2 than their CS counterparts on 10.5. I can wait for the next round of technical improvements on the hardware side, but I have serious reservations about my continued loyalty to the Adobe product line. Something is going to have to change. Perhaps they could offer a Pro version that is a leaner, more geared towards production art with less catering to diva designers.
...and I'd like my Illustrator 10 type tool back with an option to kill open type off forever. An option to apply legacy support in every file (or not) without having to physically chase it through the menus. PDFs embed the typestyle in the art. There should be an option when opening an PDF in Illustrator to outline the type in place before it determines the need to convert it to whatever it feels like at the time.
...why is there an "Expand" button in the Pathfinder dialog box? Why does AI group the objects welded together instead of making them a compound path like they use to (as recently as CS3)?

CS4 Slow Clone Tool Speedup

You can speed up the clone tool by clicking on the top panel stamp icon. It opens a dialogue box. Uncheck "Show Overlay". Unfortunatly with every new image you open, i think you have to uncheck it.

Mike, could you take a moment to reread your original post?
"CS4 Clone Tool NOT Multithreading"
"In fact it uses only one processor and this makes it run incredibly slow."
Those are not observations and represent two direct conclusions, both of which are incorrect. The first conclusion is that the clone tool is not threaded for multiple processors (it is). The second conclusion is that the lack of threading is what makes the clone tool run slow on your system (almost certainly not the case).
Implied in your statements is a third conclusion: that using more processors makes things faster (rarely true). That is a common enough fallacy that I felt the need to offer a more detailed explanation to help you and other readers understand more about the issues involved. I tried to keep that explanation short and simple.
I gave you an alternate hypothesis (small clone area) that could have explained your observation, since you didn't provide enough details for us to rule that out.
I also gave you more information about what is going on under the hood to help you understand why you observed what you did on processor usage.
Then I pointed you to existing topics that offer a much more likely explanation for the slowdown you are seeing.
If you had described with the clone tool slowdown without the incorrect conclusions and without phrasing most of your post as accusations, you probably would have gotten useful help from other users more quickly. Even my first instinct was to ignore your post, but it sounded like you were confused, a bit angry, and needed some help.
I am sorry you read things into my post that I did not intend. I'm simply trying to help you understand what you observed, and find a solution to the problem you described.

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tinlizzy,
if you haven’t done so already, download and install EtreCheck. Please include in your reply the output from a run of EtreCheck.

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Hey everyone,
I'm having a problem with illustrator CS4. It's all working fine, but there is one document that's being very, very slow. It's a drawing containing of several layers. When I add a clipping mask, it suddenly is slow. When I remove it, it acts normal again. But I need the clipping mask!
I'm working on a Windows PC.

I have over 4TB of HDD in the machine in question and use one drive just for
capture another for rendering to and yet another for storing the material
and another for anything else etc I also have a separate system drive with
all the applications on it. They are all fast enough to run HD in real time
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rendering from other software. Its only Premier CS4 that crawls. I have a
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Hello All,
I am using the code below to query a very large data table (RH) and a few other joined tables. I am trying to improve the query but I do not have any admin rights and have no idea how to get diagnostic info on how the query is being executed. Apologies for the system specific and probably not easy to read code but I do not have a generic version that anyone could run, and no admin rights so I can not create tables.
The main part of the code below (subquery R) takes about 10 minutes to run (3 minutes without the date parameters) and the full code (with the two analytic functions on top) below takes an eye watering 30 minutes to run and this is only a subquery of a much larger query so I really need to get this running more quickly. All I want to do is place a cap on the dates, get partitioned row numbers and a lead row value on one of the fields. I really am stuck on how to get this query more efficient. Am I counting things multiple times unnecessarily? How can I make this quicker? Am I committing some cardinal programming sin in using analytic functions on subqueries?
Apologies for the vaugueness of this code and my questions but I am totally clueless about diagnostics and basically have very limited system access so I'm stuck as to where to go or to look.
Very grateful for any advice,
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SELECT R.*
, ROW_NUMBER( ) OVER( PARTITION BY R.RTBLE_ID ORDER BY R.EFF_DT DESC, R.CHG_DT DESC ) RN
, LEAD(R.RTNG_CD,1,0) OVER( PARTITION BY R.RTBLE_ID ORDER BY R.EFF_DT DESC, R.CHG_DT DESC ) RTNG_CD_PREV
FROM ( SELECT RH.RTNG_ID
, RH.RTBLE_ID
, RA.RTNG_ACTN_DESC
, TYP.RTNG_TYP_DESC
, RH.RTNG_CD_ID
, RC.RTNG_CD
, RH.EFF_DT
, RH.CHG_DT
, RAL.RTNG_ALRT_TYP_ID
, RAL.EFF_DT ALRT_EFF_DT
, RAL.CHG_DT ALRT_CHG_DT
, RH.PRV_FLG
FROM FTCH_RTNG.RTNG_HIST RH
, FTCH_RTNG.RTNG_ALRT_HIST RAL
, FII_CORE.RTNG_ACTN RA
, FTCH_RTNG.RTNG_TYP TYP
, FII_CORE.RTNG_CD RC
WHERE RH.RTNG_ACTN_ID = RA.RTNG_ACTN_ID
AND RH.RTNG_TYP_ID = TYP.RTNG_TYP_ID
AND RH.RTNG_TYP_ID = RC.RTNG_TYP_ID
AND RH.RTNG_CD_ID = RC.RTNG_CD_ID
AND RH.RTNG_ID = RAL.RTNG_ID (+)
AND RH.DELETE_FLG = 'N'
AND RH.EFF_DT < TRUNC(CURRENT_DATE,'MM')
AND RAL.EFF_DT < TRUNC(CURRENT_DATE,'MM')
)R
-----

Thanks so much for replying blueforg, and for pointing out the code markup.
Our server is in the US and we run our code from London, so it is the local time I am interested in, CURRENT_DATE is merely there to get that and as you suggest is not a column. I want my cap to the first of whatever month I run the code on so I'm happy with that bit of the code (so 1 Oct if I run it today). I'm just surprised at how slow my code becomes when I try and restrict the dates and get the row numbers and next row values.
This code is actually a subquery used in a much bigger query that I am trying to tidy up and make more efficient. The RN is important as I will eventually be filtering for RN = 1. I didn't post the full query as it is huge,badly written (by me) and and particular to our databases so I'm tackling bits one at a time to cut down on confusion. I'll repost with the RN=1 and the code markup ;)
I also restricting the RH table directly (SELECT * FROM FTCH_RTNG.RTNG_HIST RH WHERE RH.EFF_DT < TRUNC(CURRENT_DATE,'MM')) and moving the analytic functions into the R subquery but that is very slow as well. I heard that temporary tables are efficient? I'm assuming that with my rubbish priveleges I will not be able to do that. I don't want to take any chances of messing anything up either!
Jon
SELECT RT.* FROM
( SELECT R.*
          , ROW_NUMBER( ) OVER( PARTITION BY R.RTBLE_ID ORDER BY R.EFF_DT DESC, R.CHG_DT DESC ) RN
          , LEAD(R.RTNG_CD,1,0) OVER( PARTITION BY R.RTBLE_ID ORDER BY R.EFF_DT DESC, R.CHG_DT DESC ) RTNG_CD_PREV
    FROM ( SELECT RH.RTNG_ID
                  , RH.RTBLE_ID
                  , RA.RTNG_ACTN_DESC
                  , TYP.RTNG_TYP_DESC
                  , RH.RTNG_CD_ID
                  , RC.RTNG_CD
                  , RH.EFF_DT
                  , RH.CHG_DT
                  , RAL.RTNG_ALRT_TYP_ID
                  , RAL.EFF_DT ALRT_EFF_DT
                  , RAL.CHG_DT ALRT_CHG_DT
                  , RH.PRV_FLG
            FROM    FTCH_RTNG.RTNG_HIST RH
                  , FTCH_RTNG.RTNG_ALRT_HIST RAL
                  , FII_CORE.RTNG_ACTN RA
                  , FTCH_RTNG.RTNG_TYP TYP
                  , FII_CORE.RTNG_CD RC
            WHERE RH.RTNG_ACTN_ID = RA.RTNG_ACTN_ID
            AND RH.RTNG_TYP_ID = TYP.RTNG_TYP_ID
            AND RH.RTNG_TYP_ID = RC.RTNG_TYP_ID
            AND RH.RTNG_CD_ID = RC.RTNG_CD_ID
            AND RH.RTNG_ID = RAL.RTNG_ID (+)
            AND RH.DELETE_FLG = 'N'
            AND RH.EFF_DT < TRUNC(CURRENT_DATE,'MM')
            AND RAL.EFF_DT < TRUNC(CURRENT_DATE,'MM')
                                                      )R )RT
WHERE RT.RN = 1-----

Illustrator CS4 Slow to open and save

Hi
For the past couple of weeks, I've been having big problems working in Illustrator. Opening and saving files are the main issues, sometimes I can work within the program without problems, but at other times, other windows, such as Safari or Bridge are active instead of Illustrator.
When opening a file, it generally takes a couple of minutes, first nothing happens, and then the wheel of doom appears.
The files are not large - I have tried opening a blank file and saving a simple square, and still have the same issues.
The computer spec is
Mac OS X
Version 10.6.8
Processor 3.06 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo
Memory 8 GB
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I use a nas box to store my work, but am not working directly from this.
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Secure emptying trash
Running Onyx
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Deleting Illustrator preferences
Rebooting in safe mode
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I'm not sure Adobe would like this, but it seems to be working for us on Mac OSX 10.9.3 and Illustrator CC 2014
Go to your user Library > Preferences folder and open com.adobe.mediabrowser.plist using TextEdit.
Select all the text and delete it.
Save the file
Get Info and lock the file.
I also removed the com.adobe.mediabrowser.plist.lockfile from the Preferences folder.
So far doing this really improves performance in Illustrator CC 2014. Opening and saving files happens at a reasonable rate; however there is a down side. Preferences no longer save. Changes made to pallettes, etc. have to be redone everytime Illustrator is opened.
Other posts mention having Verdana and Trebuchet installed. I didn't find this to help at all.

Photoshop CS4 slow on my idea centre a600

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It is fast in loading images and all.. however, cropping is lagging (when highlighting the area i want to crop), adding text etc.
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besides the driver, any other things that may affect the performance?
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