Photoshop CS4 Lag

I have Windows 7 64 bit, plenty of RAM, a quad core processor and a 512MB GPU, and for some reason Photoshop still lags on my system, for example the brush strokes and canvas rotating etc. I have installed the 11.0.1 update and updated my display drivers, but the problem is still not resolved even after turning OpenGL completely off. How can I reduce, if not get rid of the lagging?

Try this Adobe artical. hold true for windows 7.
http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/404/kb404439.html
I would do a defrag to start with.
You can also use the built in windows 7 troubleshooting tools.
Look at device manager for possible errors.

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Photoshop CS4 Lag Problems

Hi All,
I'm having a frustrating problem.
I purchased the 17", 2.8GHz, 500gb 7200rpm, 4gb Mac (no problems with this drive after having it exchanged). This is my first Mac and I was excited about receiving a powerful machine compared to my 2-year-old windows based machine.
I use CS4 extensively, mainly Photoshop and InDesign and in Photoshop, I'm noticing that the performance isn't great at all - in fact it's worse than my windows machine. When I drag a marquee window I find that progress across the page is slow, when I move items by using the arrow keys on the keyboard I can hold the arrow down for seconds then let go and watch the object move as if by itself.
I'm really not used to performance of this type in CS4 and it hinders the speed at which I can work.
I have tried allocating the maximum amount of ram (in this case 3gb due to the 32-bit limit) and have altered the number of cache levels and tested. None of these solutions is helping.
At the moment I have 115gb free on the 465gb hard drive but don't expect that that should be the problem.
Is anyone else having similar problems and, if so, have you managed to solve them?
The problem doesn't occur in other CS4 programs such as InDesign or Illustrator. I have uninstalled the Photoshop component and reinstalled but this hasn't helped.
Many thanks in advance.

You are not the first one to post a CS4 Lag issue on the net - just to tell you that you're not alone
It could be a Graphics Card problem, that probably will be solved eventually during upcoming upgrades - but I don't know exactly what kind of card in in your machine, but from your description it sounds like you bought a MacbookPro, which will probably have a NVDIA Geforce 9400 card mountet.
Here's a list of testet card and link to driver updates.
http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/405/kb405711.html
Hope you might solve the problem that way - now that you've already tried resetting your preferences - else you could always hope for a better suggestion from someone else on the thread,
Torben.
PS: You could try to turn of the Enable OpenGL Drawing in Performance section of preferences.

Photoshop CS4 brush lag with wacom tablet

I've upgraded to photoshop CS4 extended recently and all my brushes that worked fine under CS3 are now with a real lag.
I've installed the latest version of photoshop ( Adobe Photoshop CS4 11.0.1 update ) and the latest update for my wacom tablet, but the lag remains.
My computer is a new "24 imac:
- 2,66 GHz intel Core 2 duo processor
- 4 GB memory
- NVIDIA GeForce 9400
I use my tablet and photoshop a lot, but with this lag it's terrible to draw..
Is there someone who can help me with this or has the same problems ?
thanks in advance

Glad I could be of service.
Speaking of services, if you are running Vista or Windows 7 (not XP) you should turn off tablet services too. They automatically start if you install a Wacom driver on these Os'es, and they can also cause hiccups and lag in Photoshop CS4.
You have to be logged in with admin privleges.
Go to Control Panel->System and Security->Administrative Tools->Services
Open 'Tablet PC Input Service'
Stop the service and select 'Disabled' as the startup type.
You'll know you got it because the annoying 'ripple' effect will go away when you touch the pen to the tablet, and the pop-up keyboard will go away. Of course, if you actually are running on a tablet PC then don't do this.

Adobe Photoshop CS4 Extreme Lag?

Hello everyone!
I've been a fan of Adobe for quite some time and started using it the first day in my new school. (We were given laptops with CS4 installed for free.)
Now the thing is, 2 years has gone and I've recently gotten a new computer and I recently bought the Adobe CS4 Masters Collection. It's a great package and it was definetily worth saving my money for and tons of begging, my parents finally gave in. However, aside from Photoshop CS4 ALL programs work extremely smooth and I'm learning a lot.
Photoshop CS4 does not unfortunately. I will try to explain this as thoroughly as possible. Whenever I try to write text or change tool it always comes up a "Progress" box loading what I'm doing, for example if I just want to make a text box and write "Hello." it will take forever:
This is a print screen of me writing the text: "Hello." this is around 3 minutes in... I recall that Photoshop does not normally take that long to process writing that text nor changing tool... what is happening? Below are my PC specifications:
Intel Core i5-2500K @ 3300MHz
16GB RAM
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 Ti
Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit
Also, since I'm using an SSD harddrive to boot up I made sure that my 'Scratch Disks' are not on my bootup harddrive which is C: so I configured it to look like:
And yes, I did try to turn off OpenGL. No changes. I did try the original scratch disk to be C. No changes. I did play around with the RAM usage, no changes. I really need help, it feels like a big portion of my money was tossed into the recycle bin.
Also I did try to use the program with the Default settings, it has been like this from THE START. I've tried using both the 32bit and 64bit version but still nothing.

>> recently bought the Adobe CS4 Masters Collection.
It's been about 2 years since that was available for sale.
Where did you get an obsolete version of the suite?
Now about performance: Did you notice that your document is zoomed out to 1%?
You've got a HUGE document. Most likely you made a mistake in the resolution of the document and typed 2000 inches instead of 2000 pixels or something like that.

Photoshop CS4 64bit Slow on a Dell Covet M6400

hello all,
i have patiently read all the posts on the forum about the slow issues and supossedly how to fix them (kapersky etc..). I have yet to be able to configure photoshop cs4 64bit to run smoothly..
here is my config...
Dell Precision Covet m6400
Vista 64
Quad-core qx9300
8gb ram
nvidia quadro fx 3700m 1gb
2x320gb 7.2k drives raid 0
cs4 64 should run like a dream on this machine... it doesn't..
What problems i get.
General refresh issues, lag, panels done't minimise maximise smoothly, can't drag layers smoothly from one document tab to another. When i try and close the document tabs they take ages to close. When i open nvidia control panel in tandem to having photoshop open to see whats going on the animated logo jitters and does not rotate smoothly when i move my mouse over it...
What i have done to try and solve the issues.
Uninstalled and re installed numerous times.
Uninstalled and re installed Dell's nvidia driver and other drivers from laptopvideo2go.
Unistalled eset node 32 64bit
Changed gpu setting in performance menu...
CS3 runs ok though...
please please please does anybody have any ideas on what may be the cause..?
many many thanks i'd be more than happy to test anything you have to try and sort out these issues. the 3700m is nvidias flagship mobile workstation card and photoshop should rock on it...
Anthony Kyriazis
www.onyro.com

Same here,
Tried everything on this forum and more...
Getting tired of wating after adobe.
IntelP D 2.80 GHz
2GB dual channel
Ati Radeon 4870 HD
XP 32bit SP3
1.5TB HD (150f)

Issues with PHOTOSHOP CS4 on Windows 7

Hi!
I'm using photoshop CS4 on Windows 7, and i have a problem. I'm working on a Core I7 920 with 6Go of ram.
I'm using the 11.0.1 version (the latest), and even with that, the brush is awfully slow on windows 7. I tried with and without the "Open-GL drawing" enabled, it doesn't change anything. I thought it could be the fault of Windows 7's "tablet PC" function, but even after uninstalling it, i still have the same problem. I tried it on XP SP3 on the same computer, and it works normaly.
As i also had some problems with AE, i guess the compatibility is not perfect. I think Adobe should really think about an update for 7 users.

Here's a possible solution (work around) to the lag problem, that worked for me.
Open the Wacom Tablet Properties, double click on the tablet and make sure its in "Standard" mode.
Click on the Mapping Tab ->set the mapping mode to Mouse and turn off Mouse Accelerration.
I also either disabled anything that I didn't use.
Hope this helps.
Mike

Photoshop CS4 - Windows XP/64bit

So, i recently brought Adobe Production Premium CS4, and like alot of people, Photoshop is definatly one of my main tools of trade. I use it primarily for digital painting. However, i currently run the program on Windows XP 32bit, 500GB Hard Drive, 4GB RAM (Seen as 2.6GB due to being only 32bit...annoying i know), 9800 GTX NVidia graphics card, and a 2.4ghz Quad Core processor. This runs very fast with most programs, but not Photoshop CS4 it does not. It isn't as bad as it used to be, but still runs like crap, and is making it almost impossible to paint/draw fast at all. I have all OpenGL support, on, as my computer should be able to handle it fine as it has no problem with other applications such as Maya, but even with this off it still runs slowly.
After monitoring Photoshop resource usage on my PC, i realized it page-files about 2GB of Page file or more, and seems to only really use my first and last processor cores. So i was wondering, if i updated my operating system to Windows XP 64bit, would this make a very noticable difference to its preformance to make it more like CS3 or 7.0, or would this be practically pointless? I am trying to stay away from Vista due to the fact that i generally dont like it, and its compatability problems are annoying. So are there any bugs/things i should know before spending money to get 64bit XP, or should i change somthing on 32bit? or is there even a good noticable difference? Or am i unfortinatly better off upgrading to vista? Or does anyone happen to know how windows 7 will act with it yet?
Thanks, Ricky

Interesting....
My graphics card has no option to fource what it uses to render, and Photoshop CS4 aprantly is only programed to use OpenGL anyway. Ironically, after creating this topic, i found out about Adobe's update release of Photoshop CS4 11.0.1, which i didnt have installed. I have it now, and it has definatly made one hell of a big diffeence!! However, the program still lags in many places. Navigating around the image and clicking the text tool (which used to be very slow for whatever reason), are much faster now, however i am still quite confused about one thing it still insists on doing:
I tested 11.0.1. I found it much faster. However, memory usage still seemed a little off. It started at 0.99GB (is what task manager said, even though that is a weird way to say it....), which is much betetr than before. I opened a document of about 3000px width, and 2000px height. It came to using about 1.16GB pagefile then. I painted all over it rapidly to see how much the lag had improved, and i zoomed in and out fast and really shook it around to see if it lagged there, which it didn't...so good news. BUT, then i close the image, and the pagefile goes UP? to 1.28GB... And then drops down to 1.21GB..and stays there. I open another image that was 141.5MB. The pagefile went upto only 1.25GB, and the preformance was really good still....unlike it was in photoshop 7.0 for some reason even though ive always called Photoshop 7.0 to be the most stable realease of it yet....
So i don't really know what to think now. Is there a problem? After closing the image the pagefile was still at 1.25GB, so it didnt drop down the memory like it should have for some reason. I think CS3 had a similar problem that eventually caused an error sayign there is not enough RAM avalible, even if the image was tiny, and i still had 2.5GB of RAM. Some how i got around that by saving the image in PS 7.0, and the opening it in CS3, then it didnt care for some reason.
blizzman, do you have another hard drive for Photoshop to use as a scratch disk? I was thinking of getting a 74GB 10,000 rpm hard drive for it and other programs, but i was wondering if it really requires it for a difference? Below is an image of my task manager with photoshop preferences if anyone has any suggestions?
Thanks for the reply blizzman.

Photoshop CS4 is unbelievably slow. Downgrade me please.

I'm running Photoshop CS4 on a 2.6 MacBook Pro with 4 Gig of RAM. Everything on this machine runs beautifully, and I rarely, if ever, experience enough lag in any app to become frustrated.
Photoshop CS4 is the only exception.
Extremely frustrating problems include:
up to 10 second pause before refresh when zooming in and out.
5 to 20 second pauses when selecting/deselecting layers.
stuttering and crippling lag when dragging an image around, especially when zoomed in.
unresponsive reactions to layer nudging.
anywhere from 10 second to 5 minute (not an exaggeration) pause while saving for web, accompanied by frequent crashes.
all of the above problems are completely random and not consistently reproduceable, though they occur very regularly.
As a professional designer, I've been used to ignoring Photoshop CS3 and concentrating on the work I was doing. This is exactly how a good tool should function. With Photoshop CS4 I spend far more time frustrated and conscious of the unresponsive & clumsy tool than I do paying attention to what I'm trying to do. Apart from being constantly and unbelievably frustrating, it's costing me time, and therefore money, and affecting the quality of my work.
If anyone from Adobe is paying attention here, you should be very worried. I have spent a great deal of energy lately wishing for an alternative to Photoshop. Having customers whose loyalty is based on nothing more than a lack of viable alternatives is a perfect opportunity for a competitor to drink your milkshake, and earn the gratitude of customers like myself. You, the creators of the Quark killer InDesign, should know that very well.
The first Photoshop CS4 update, 11.0.1, solved none of my problems. As a customer who bought CS4 new, and not as an upgrade, I don't have the option of downgrading to CS3, although I would dearly love to. Providing me with a free downgrade wouldn't really solve my problem – Photoshop CS4 would still be painfully slow – but at least I could work in peace again.
How about it Adobe?
Are you a designer using Photoshop CS4? Tell me about your experiences here:
http://mattbalara.com/2009/05/downgrade-me-please.html

You can in fact get your money back from Adobe during the first 30 days after buying the software.
Unfortunately, I'm not in a position to comment on the performance of CS4 or any other software on a laptop, but what I can tell you is that CS4 runs very fast and smoothly on my lowly, older machine.
Dual bootable, DP MDD 1.25GHz G4 (2004), maxed out at 2GB of RAM, both Spotlight and Dashboard disabled, Photoshop primary scratch disk on dedicated 160GB internal drive, at least 100GB available on each of the four internal drives, up to 300GB on some. Counting external FW drives just over 1TB of drive space available. nVidia GeForce 7800 GS 425MHz 256 MB "mutant" flashed graphics display card. Processor napping enabled through CHUD 3.5.2. Tiger 10.4.11. Photoshop 11.0.1.
If you want Adobe to read your message, contact them directly. We're mostly users like you in this forum.

Photoshop CS4 slow on my idea centre a600

Hi. i have with me an IdeaCentre A600, 1gb ram, ati 3560.
However, photoshop CS4 is laggy with this desktop.
It is fast in loading images and all.. however, cropping is lagging (when highlighting the area i want to crop), adding text etc.
any idea how to overcome? i read in adobe's forum, and they recommend updating graphic driver, and i am halfway downloading the driver.
besides the driver, any other things that may affect the performance?
Im on Windows Vista, and CS3 works fine on the system.

hi.. anyone experiancing the same problem?
I have just upgraded my video driver.. but still the same.

Photoshop CS4, Intous 3 and Windows 7 - strange work

Hello.
I have Windows RTM 64bit, Intous 3 latest driver (29.09.09), Adobe Photoshop CS4.
And when I work in Photoshop with brush some times it draws normally with pressure, but sometimes NOT. The difference is pen movement during first pen touch. If I lower pen during move its all right, but there is a lag between action and reaction. But if I just press the surface and then start pen movement, I get no pressure, just bold line and stupid windows pen circles.
I think the trouble is in Windows tablet, ink, penk etc preferences, but I cant get what to do. Please help.

Maybe windows 7, when released in this month will support it better or the Intous will have better drivers.
Here is the site to submit to Adobe the problems you face. Maybe they might be working on it too.
https://www.adobe.com/cfusion/mmform/index.cfm?name=wishform

Photoshop CS4 opengl crapness

I'm wondering why is it that I have to go into the prefereneces every sodding time to enable the GPU support.. I have the latest gfx drivers XPsp3, 8800gtx, Photoshop seems incapable of just working properly, I suppose I could ignore the error message, but it would still leave me to have go turn the stupid poor feature back on... which does actually work, but PS seems to think it needs disabling after I close the program.. wtf
btw I did follow adobes crap support docs on this issue...
"3. Update your GPU drivers and then turn on Enable OpenGL Drawing.
If Photoshop crashes or disappears because of a GPU problem, it turns off Enable OpenGL Drawing and it writes a flag file in the preferences folder, called GPUinitcrashed. The next time you open Photoshop, this warning displays: "Photoshop has encountered a problem with the display driver, and has temporarily disabled GPU enhancements. Check the video card manufacturer's website for the latest software. GPU enhancements can be enabled in the Performance panel of Preferences."
Download the most recent version of your display driver from the display card manufacturer's site (Windows) or check to see if there's an operating system update (Mac OS).
Important: If you turn on Enable OpenGL Drawing before you update your driver, then Photoshop uses the old display driver again. If the driver wasn't updated, then Photoshop fails again. If you do not turn on Enable OpenGL Drawing, then the GPU won't be accessed and Photoshop does not fail.
..."Photoshop does not fail.".. lol yeah right Photoshop FAILS alright.. fails at poor innovation and shity noob features year in, year out.

When I say I have the latest gfx drivers.. I mean the LATEST 180.43 currently ... "It's probably safe to say that a lot of people who claim to have "the latest drivers" haven't really bothered to check in a while. " ... so you can take that nonsense back.
anyway for the past day PS hasn't brought back the opengl prompt saying its disabled itself... course the day before that even though I was using the same gfx drivers it would forget I had turned on acceleration, and on next app relaunch I'd get that prompt. So I'm just hoping it stays on this time and doesn't bother me again, course if upgrade the gfx drivers I'm sure it will disable itself again and I'll be back to the useless PS preferences dialog to enable it.
Chris Farrel.. its def not an issue to do with my hdd setup or partition setup.. i know what you're saying, but scratch disks and disk i/o is not the issue here.. its Photoshop CS4 and it has some issues caused with this opengl implementation and GUI change, maybe its also to do with Nvidia they've been known to be slackers for fixing application bugs.. if it ain't a game they don't seem give **** I mean they are more likely to have hoards of gamers pissed off at there new game not working than adobe users who don't seem to have a clue when something isn't working or a way of pinpointing the problem.
Bart Cross - grow some balls.. and instead of playing cry baby.. you leave some crap response about XP being the problem!! you're blaming an OS that has run Photoshop CS3 absolutly fine without any floating doc lag or opengl disabling itself on app close! and don't at all think that perhaps CS4 that has a new graphics system is perhaps has some issues? you must be one stupid fanboy. I wonder what your OS of choice is.
Pimco- delay as much as possible or try get CS3, CS4 is a doozy, no doubt CS5 might be better.. heck you might even get the rest of the features they held back from this release :P like they give you alt+rmb left/right to adjust brush size..but wtf happened to adjusting brush hardness.. pfff Adobe idiots.. that might get added next 18months where you'll be able to alt+rmb up&down to adjust brush hardness or let alone any other brush dynamics.. well done adobe.. thanks for stringing out the features.
And I've heard many other CS4 users complain about the poor opengl performance.. and not just in Photoshop .. AFX .. heck even Soundbooth has been known to have gfx glitches.. and moving floating documents does display a lag, not when you're moving but initialy as you grab hold of that floating docs titlebar.. never happened with PS CS3.
Wing.. you must be my new fan :) to go out and collect all those quotes well done. I enjoyed reading them

Can't install updates for Photoshop CS4!!

I downloaded photoshop cs4 onto my windows vista computer, but the version i have says 11.0. its really slow and lags when i try to draw so i tried to update it to 11.0.2 but when i went into the installer it said can not install please click the quit button. Anybody know how to fix this problem or get the updater to work? thanks.

Uninstall everything Adobe, run the Creative Suite Cleaner Tool, reinstall from scratch. in so many words: You have another dependent update already in place when you updated something else (e.g. Acrobat's PDF libraries) and it's blocking your otehr update. Though none of this may fix your actual performance problem in PS, to be honest. This may be completely unrelated and be a problem with the machine itself. Ask on the PS forum.
Mylenium

Photoshop cs6 lags very badly

Hi there,
I've got Photoshop cs6 13.0.6. x64 and it has turned very slowly, perhaps after I installing Maverics, but now I've installed Yosemite version 10.10.1
The info of MacBook Pro:
- 2,4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo
- 8 GB 1067 MHz DDR3
- NVIDIA GeForce 320M 256 MB
- Photoshop is using 79% of available Ram. Cache level 1, animated zoom disabled.
The Problem:
Photoshop doesn't react with my shortcut keys, like if I want to undo by typing cmd +z, nothing happens. I have to do it again, then it might work. Usually I have to point somewhere in the art board and then press cmd+z. The same thing with the other commands, like v, e, b etc. Then it's slowing a lot, even if I'm doing with a low resolution. Last time I was doing a pixel art in 50x50px sized art board and photoshop started lagging and showing "spinning color wheel". During that it was not responding to anything and It took approximately 2min. Then photoshop worked for a few minutes before it started spinning the same color wheel. Other programs do work fine during that. This same thing happens every time when I'm using photoshop.
Has anyone else the same problem? I've tried to look answers on forums but those weren't leading anywhere. I'm also using Illustrator cs6 and it's working really well, no lagging and recognises shortcut keys too. No problems with that.
Thank you in advance.

http://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/kb/optimize-performance-photoshop-cs4-cs5.html
http://blogs.adobe.com/crawlspace/2012/07/photoshop-basic-troubleshooting-steps-to-fix-mos t-issues.html
What are your complete Photoshop Performance Preferences (a screenshot can save one a lot of typing)?

CS6 photoshop is lagging but the rest of CS6 is not, i don't think hardware is the issue.

Hardware specs:
Processor: Intel® CoreT i7-4710MQ, 6MBL3 Cache, 2.5-3.5GHz
Memory: (8GB) 8192MB, PC3-12800/1600MHz DDR3 - 2 SO-DIMM
Graphics Card: NVIDIA Quadro® K1000M 2GB DDR3
Hard Drive: 500GB 2.5" SATA3 Hybrid w/ 4GB NAND Flash
Operating System: Microsoft® Windows® 8.1; 64-bit
All of photoshop is lagging for me but my biggest issue with it is the brushstroke lag. I really need this program to work for my commissions and classwork, and have done all the troubleshooting I can on my own. I'm willing to even downgrade to CS4 if necessary, but if i can get cs6 to work that would be preferred. does anyone have a solution for this?

System requirements | Photoshop
Under Edit > Preferences > Performance, how much memory is available to PS. What is your scratch disk space? Is Use Graphics Processor checked or un-checked?
Nancy O.

Photoshop CC lag fix?

I recently downloaded photoshop CC and it is lagging like crazy. I can barely do any work. Please help. I cannot find any solitions!

Please read these (in particular the section titled "Supply pertinent information for quicker answers"):
http://forums.adobe.com/docs/DOC-2325
http://blogs.adobe.com/crawlspace/2012/07/photoshop-basic-troubleshooting-steps-to-fix-mos t-issues.html
http://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/kb/optimize-performance-photoshop-cs4-cs5.html

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