Slow Performance CS 55, Indesign, Acrobat

Question

Hello,
ever since upgrading from CS 50 to CS55 the whole suite is incredibly slow, especially Acrobat and Indesign. Phonesupport is unable to figure it out and points out that increased quality in display reduces overall performance "a little". CS 5.0 had no such problems and the computer is not a small one as well: Mac Pro 12 Core, 32 GB Ram, 512 GB SSD Primary, ATI Radeon HD 5870 1024 MB with 3x Cinema 30".
I know tripple head configs are tricky but that can not be the problem in this case, or?
*ANY* help appreciated!
Marc

Answer 1

John,
i think both applications share a big part: the displaying engine. i have set up a basic test: opening 5 PDFs (select all in finden, cmd+Enter > Acrobat opens 5 PDFs sequentially) and pressing CMD+Q some seconds after (This will shut down acrobat, closing all opened PDFs right after opening has completed). On my machine this takes 33 seconds with this pdf: http://www.baumarkt-ahrensburg.de/fileadmin/pdf/tipps/Bade-_und_Duschwanne_einbauen.pdf; which is about 29 seconds too long for my taste.
I have not installed any third party software in Acrobat, but was unable to test it with CS50, because a downgrade is not possible without fully de-/installing the whole suite.
I have tested repairing permissions, adding a new admin user, macCleaner, Safe-Reboot (yields even slower performance) with no success.
Opening this PDF and 4 copies (5 in total) with Acrobat Reader X within Parallels on the same machine results in total open/close time of 8sec. Which would be acceptable as well; but only on my mac not within emulation
Additionally i do not have any antivirussoftware nor other background software running...
Any further ideas?
Marc