Slow RAM-thieving Photoshop CC

I have already seen a few questions raised about this, but no answers as yet. I have just installed Adobe Photoshop CC and Adobe Bridge CC and the new Photoshop consumes almost all of my 12GB of RAM, slowing the entire system (current model iMac). I am faced with having to remove CC, revert back to CS5 and write-off the 12 month CC subscription I have paid for -- though hoping an answer has been found. I did note in one forum that Adobe implied we are imagining this problem. Terrific!

Help>About will show you the version number.
Do you accidentally have the ray-traced renderer turned on for your composition instead of the standard renderer?
Do you have Depth of Field turned on for your camera?
Tutorials often speed up RAM previews to prevent boredom on the part of the viewer.
The size of the emitter is unrelated to the processing power it takes. What matters is how many particles are being created
SomeGenericName wrote:
I watch the Task Manager every time I'm doing something intensive on AE and my CPU always sky rockets to to using 99% of its power. Now is AE a software that uses mainly GPU support, or should it actually be using that much CPU power?
After Effects uses the GPU for very little. See here: GPU (CUDA, OpenGL) features in After Effects
Side note: The ray-traced renderer is now considered obsolete, so if you had not heard about it before, don't get all excited and start learning it. Learn this instead.
CPU and RAM are the two most crucial things for AE. This page might help: Optimizing for performance: Adobe Premiere Pro and After Effects

Similar Messages

Need help. I am running a 27 in imac with 16 gigs of ram. Photoshop runs really fast, except when opening files. It takes 5-10 minutes to open even a small file of 1 meg. I cleaned and validated all the fonts and removed all questionable fonts. Reset pref

Need help. I am running a 27 in imac with 16 gigs of ram. Photoshop runs really fast, except when opening files. It takes 5-10 minutes to open even a small file of 1 meg. I cleaned and validated all the fonts and removed all questionable fonts. Reset preferences and still have problem. Slow to open and in force quit "Photoshop not responding" At this point should I uninstall and start over.

What are the performance Preferences?

Lately Photoshop CC 2014 in my PC gets blocked when doing panoramas. First I edit my raw photos in Lightroom, then export to Photoshop for making panoramas. My Pc runs Windows 8.1 64 bits 8Gb Ram, Lately Photoshop CC 2014 in my PC gets blocked when doing

Últimamente Photoshop CC 2014 se detiene fusionando las capas al hacer panoramas. Primero edito mis fotos Raw en Lightroom luego las paso a Photoshop para hacer panoramas. Photoshop las abre y fusionando las capas se detiene.
Según el administrador de tareas cuando se bloquea tiene ocupado el 81 % de memoria 25% de CPU y 1% del disco.
Mi PC tiene Windows 8.1 de 64 bits y tiene 8 Gb de ram
Lately Photoshop CC 2014 in my PC gets blocked when doing panoramas. First I edit my raw photos in Lightroom, then export to Photoshop for making panoramas. My Pc runs Windows 8.1 64 bits 8Gb Ram

Últimamente Photoshop CC 2014 se detiene fusionando las capas al hacer panoramas. Primero edito mis fotos Raw en Lightroom luego las paso a Photoshop para hacer panoramas. Photoshop las abre y fusionando las capas se detiene.
Según el administrador de tareas cuando se bloquea tiene ocupado el 81 % de memoria 25% de CPU y 1% del disco.
Mi PC tiene Windows 8.1 de 64 bits y tiene 8 Gb de ram
Lately Photoshop CC 2014 in my PC gets blocked when doing panoramas. First I edit my raw photos in Lightroom, then export to Photoshop for making panoramas. My Pc runs Windows 8.1 64 bits 8Gb Ram

Have Creative Cloud Subscription- Windows 7 ultima--16GB ram memory-Photoshop cc 2014 updated- I cannot find the Creative Cloud Libraries instead I get My Libraries that I have not created- I cannot find the Assets tab. Tried several links no solution. pl

have Creative Cloud Subscription- Windows 7 ultima--16GB ram memory-Photoshop cc 2014 updated- I cannot find the Creative Cloud Libraries instead I get My Libraries that I have not created- I cannot find the Assets tab. Tried several links no solution. How can I get the Creative Cloud Market Library?

kglad,
Thanks for the suggestion but I have attempted this many times to no avail. As I said in my original post, "I have researched this problem on this forum and the Adobe site and believe that I have tried everything over the past week."
It is very late here (I am in Greece). I will have a further attempt in the morning. The windows machine is hut down. Thanks for your help.
Bob

OK, So How Much RAM Does Photoshop CS5 Use?

ANSWER: All you give it, lol!
I posted this for those buying or building a PC and are deciding "how much RAM do I need?"
I built a fairly powerful rig for Photoshop and editing in Premiere Pro, and without all the tech specs, I have 24GB of ram, mostly for encoding HiDef video. Surely Photoshop wouldn't eat THAT much, right? Dead wrong. I have Photoshop set to utilize 75% of my available ram which would be near 19GB. I just worked on a fairly large image, where I took 23 vertical shots with my 5D Mark II (5616x3744 resolution files, pretty big) and did a large photomerge which ended up at about 60,000 x 5,500 after the crop. Granted, large image, nearly 3½GB .PSB file. So while the merging and aligning was taking place, I watched my Ram Gadget soar, right up to 19GB within 4 minutes of processing:
Yowza. I expected that from Media Encoder processing 1080p HD video into a Blu-Ray disc format, but not a Photoshop file. So, the point of all this: ram is lower in cost than it's been in many months, a 12GB Mushkin kit (3x4GB) is down to $169 on Newegg. Don't skimp in that arena, fill 'er up as best as you can. Future versions aren't going to use less ram, let's face it, the software has to process a lot of pixels! Try to go a minimum of 6GB, but definitely 8-12GB if you can. Of course this means bye-bye FINALLY to 32-bit operating systems, but once you have a large playground of memory, you and Photoshop will be happy campers.

I purposely waited to respond so I wouldn't write things I'd regret later:
"Nice system."
Huh? I didn't list my system on purpose. The point wasn't showing off gear, it was PS's use of RAM.
"With regard to RAM and Photoshop, people often say more is better without qualification, and you have just confirmed that advice."
You actually have no evidence of my qualifications. I'll send you a link to my Microsoft transcript if you'd like, there are 16 certifications you can peruse.
"Personally, with 24 GB of RAM I'd suggest settting Photoshop's limit even higher - e.g., to 95% (which is what I use for 8 GB) ... The OS doesn't need much on that scale."
24GB x 95% = 22.,8GB... that leaves 1.2GB of RAM for everything else including Windows 7 64 bit. I'm sorry, that's an extremely unwise choice. Noel, maybe you need to remove the "unqualified" beam from your own eye before you point it out in others.
If anyone is reading this please PLEASE don't set your Photoshop limit to 95% of your available ram. Your system will mostly likely crash within minutes of starting Photoshop. The proven setting is 75%, set it there and move on. Thanks.

Salve,nonostante possiedo un mac pro con sud e 14gb di ram utilizzando photoshop cs6 o cc dopo circa 10minuti di lavoro rallenta di bestia,come mai?

Salve,nonostante possiedo un mac pro con sud e 14gb di ram utilizzando photoshop cs6 o cc dopo circa 10 minuti di lavoro rallenta di bestia,come mai?

Please post your Help - System Info data. Perhaps you have a setting that isn't appropriate to your hardware capabilities.
This article might help you:
Optimize performance | Photoshop CS4, CS5, CS6, CC
-Noel

Indesign slow with Bridge -Photoshop-Illustrator

Hello there,
First, sorry for my english i'm French.
One of my collegue is experiencing issue with CS6 indesign.
Installed in a PC with Intel core i7 370 2.93/2.93 gHZ, 16 GB RAM.
Windows seven 64 bits.
Once he open a files of more than 10 Mb in Indisign and open in the same times Bridge or photoshop to integrate pictures or illustrator the PC get really slow and the users must wait several minutes to get the work done.
I never use myself The CS6 so I don't know if this behaviour is normal.
Before that the user was using CS4 and he did not have so much trouble with the same kind of files and he was doing the same work on it.
Beside the CS6, the unit has some standart software installed, Microsoft office 2003 and basically that's all except web navigator and some soft like cccleaner,VLC,Quicktime, nero burning room, kaspersky antivirus...
He never get any error message, or blue screen or whatever...microsoft and adobe updates are done.
All users in the services have the same hardware and software and this is the only one who had issue, the only difference is that he is working on bigger files.
I have ask him to try to work on the PC of his colllegue to check if issue appears to but he willbe able to do the test tomorow PM only.
When we have migrate from CS4 to CS6, I did not reinstall windows, just desinstalled CS4 and then install CS6.
I didn't use the CS cleaner tool....
Did someone knows where the issue can come from ? drive access or software related ?
It's busy timing for now so I don't want to reinstall all the PC and CS6 before knowing it will solved the issue.
Thx a lot,
Elisa

Is there any technical support when you buy CS6 ???
I mean our compagny had Cs4 before and now - like there is no upgrade anymore- we bought 9 complete CS6 license ( including 2 master) and no help from adobe ?
So basically: adobe, it's we get your money we are happy if you have issue, we don't give a s**t !!!

Very slow Illustrator CS3, Photoshop CS3 performance?

I'm using a MacBook Pro Core Duo 2GHz with 2GB of RAM installed, and I was reasonably hoping that when I installed the CS3 suite, it'd run like a dream.
I've found that when running Photoshop and Illustrator at the same time, with nothing else open but Mail.app and Safari, my MBP grinds to a halt for minutes at a time in mid-project. Switching between programs takes several minutes of beachball-spinning and stopwatch-running. It seems that performance degrades as I work: after working with large files, both programs are so slow as to be unusable until I restart them, or even my Mac.
My RAM is maxed out and I'm using a 500GB drive as an external scratch disk. I can't think of any way to optimize my performance... any ideas? Anyone else have this problem?

Im having the same problem on my MBPro Dual 2.4 17"! However I have had the performance issues before installing the latest Adobe suite. I too belived that purchasing the latest and greatest Apple Adobe guff, that I would have a seriously quick usuable workstation. To be honest I still get better performance from my Old 1.8Ghz G5 iMac with half the ram running the same set of apps. I also have set up for my clients (another studio) 3 brand new Intel iMacs and surprise surprise they too are not kicking the dual G5's they replaced. I hate to say it but I have recently been working on a combination of both my 1.2Ghz WinXP Athlon machine and old iMac and had a far better workflow than waiting for the MacBookto get its act together! Maybe Intel really is not the way to go, as I have also found the Core Duos to NOT multitask very well either! Apple I will never be buying a new Mac again, and don't be surprised if a 17" MacBook Pro ends up on eBay very soon! Jay please let me know if you have found some kind of solution, as running one app at a time (as suggested in a prev post) is not really what we shelled out the $$ for!

Slow Brushes In Photoshop CS5

Hi:
I've just started experimenting with the new capabilities of brushes in Photoshop CS5 and I'm having problems with the brush response being abysmally slow. I'm working on a Mac Pro Quad Core, 2.93 GHz with 8 MB of RAM and a wrireless mouse. Can anybody tell me what might be contributing to this slowness??
Herman R.

I've installed the 12 02 update and the latest drivers for the
FX3400 graphics card. Now when CS5 opens it tells me its disabling theGPU enhancements. I have the GL turned off.
It also likes to crash when I run Imagenomics plug ins.
So CS3 did not use GL? Whatever. So that means that its slow and crashes now. I can see in other threads here and elsewhere the retarded brush action is common. They released CS5 too soon. Its not even half-baked. Also I want the images to open on the right monitor but with CS5 I have to drag each image over to work on it.
I'm back to using CS3 and they said my refund will be credited to my card the first week of January. I'll have to monitor to see if they get their application working before I return as I have wasted so much time with this I think they should pay me for helping with their product development.

Slow swapping between Photoshop and Illustrator

I have had this issue for a while now where it takes forever to swap between photoshop and illustrator, even if nothing is on my clipboard. It also seems like it takes forever for photoshop to display its UI no matter what program I am working in prior to clicking on it on the task bar. Once I am in the programs, they run fine until I try to save or print, at which point to slow to a crawl again. It wasn't always like this, but I had to do a system restore a couple of weeks ago to fix a bad boot file, and now the programs run like crap. I have noticed that the person who worked here prior to me never uninstalled the previous versions of Design Standard. So I am just tyring to figure out a way to speed things up because this should not be going this slow.
My computer specs
Windows XP Professional
2.83ghz Quad Core Intel Processor
4GB RAM (tech under since XP pro only supports 3.3)
GeForce 9800 512MB Vid card
All my drivers have been updated and I did a registry cleaner which did not fix the problem. So any help would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks

Imo, you should establish a rather strict
color management strategy (examples):
1. Define in Photoshop:
RGB: AdobeRGB(98)
CMYK: ISOCoated
Gray: Black Ink ISO Coated (Custom profile)
Spot: Black Ink ISO Coated
2. Distribute this profile set by Bridge
3. Convert RGB images in Photoshop to CMYK
4. Define Color space in Illustrator as CMYK
5. Open the Photoshop file or the Tiff file in
Illustrator: here it looks as expected.
Problems: the CMYK file contains an ICC-profile
which is different to the global CMYK-definition.
Now it depends on the CMS strategies, and that's
the point where I'm usually giving up.
Best regards --Gernot Hoffmann

Bridge CS4 is slow, slow, slow (so is Photoshop CS4)

AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual-Core 6000+ CPU, 4 GB RAM, Windows XP SP2 32-bit, ATI Radeon HD 2600 Pro graphics card, two 1-TB hard disks with hundreds of GB free
With Bridge CS3 it took less than ten seconds to build the thumbnails of a folder with 85 image files. With Bridge CS4, it takes almost two minutes. Anybody having the same problem?
And where have the preference options for the thumbnail quality gone? I wanted to set the thumbnail quality to 'low' for a speed-up but I cannot. The options just aren't there in the Bridge CS4 preferences dialog ... and it takes forever building those thumbnails one after one, about one per second. And as if that wasn't bad enough already, Bridge CS4 extracts more than hundred thumbnails from only 85 raw image files, according to the text appearing in the status bar next to the spinning radar icon. There is something seriously screwed up.
And Photoshop CS4 is sluggish, too (no matter if Enable OpenGL is on or off).
So by and large, CS4 is a major disappointment. I hope for some updates REAL soon. For now, I am back to CS3. :(
-- Olaf

Michelle Qi wrote:
> There is a UI in Bridge CS4 to switch between
> "Quick Thumbnail" and "High Quality"
There is!? :o
Michelle Qi wrote:
> On the top right of the Bridge Window, below
> workspaces, left side of a "star icon" - there
> is a square with popup down arrow.
Nope. There is no star icon, no square, and below the workspace options there's the Content pane. Why don't you simply put the thumbnail quality options where they belong and where they always have been?
EDIT: Now I found out what Michelle was talking about: the so-called path bar. Of course I disabled that silly path bar first thing after installing Bridge CS4 so I didn't notice that the UI of one of the most essential settings is located there---and
i only
there ... even though it has nothing to do with paths. (Suggestion what to do to this UI's designer removed.)
-- Olaf

My new Macbook pro is running very slow especially with photoshop. How can I speed it up?

Hi there,
I just bought my Macbook Pro two weeks ago specifiacally to use Photoshop CS and Lightroom together. It worked fine for the first few days but
has slowed down considerably since then. I live in Taiwan which makes it difficult to go to a store to have it finxed due to the language barrier
so online help would be fantastic! If the problem continues would it be possible to exchange it for an Air (if that's a wise choice?)
I look forward to a quick reply!
Thank you
Candice

Hi Clinton,
Thanks for that super quick reply!!
I wasn't expecting this to happen with my new computer! However photoshop and lightroom are running ridulously slowly, even while scrolling through pictures the beachball appears!
Ill give you some information that may help you understand this problem better.
%CPU
Flash Player Safari internet plugin 5.3
% User 2.75
% System 3.37
% Idle 93.38
Page out - 6.36 GB
Swap Used - 6.75 GB
Would you like the system log and kernel log too?
Thank you for your help!!
CC

Bridge is very slow after installing Photoshop CC

I just installed Photoshop CC last night and today Bridge is VERY slow. Every folder I open even if I opened it yesterday has to build some kind of an index.
Also it keeps crashing it never crashed before.

Yes I understand that my point is it only started to do this after I installed Photoshop CC. I have been using bridge CS6 for 3 months and it has never been this slow or crash. IT crashed 5 times today.
Note if you are using the Creeative cloud you may not know this but every 3 months you will have to log in and re accept all the licenses for all the products you open and want to run again, every 3 months. I just learned that today as well.

Could not use the Brush tool because there is not enough RAM? Photoshop CS6?

That and I couldn't even save a project I was working because (There was not enough RAM)
My computer is running Windows 7 with 4 (3 usable) GB Ram, Pentium Dual Core; @ 2.00 Ghz
-I have allocated all possible RAM to CS6
-I set 6 scratch disks (the first two are 1TB external HDD)
-I fixed the file peeling so that there is quite a bit of it
- I have Photoshop CS5 still installed (it works fine) as well as Elements 9, I don't know if that could be a problem or not.
I like the new features of CS6 especially the new 5000 px brush, but half the time I can't even use it because of this problem! What can I do to fix it?
I mostly use it for digital art so the pictures get to be at most 5000-3300 pixels. I get the problem mostly when I use brushes at 5000 px. CS5 works just fine and it uses the scratch disks I emplace, it seems as though CS6 doesn't even use them.

Obviously, you are running Win7 32-bit OS. Is that correct?
What are the full specs. of your Windows Virtual Memory, the Page File? What is its size, location, and is it static, or dynamically managed?
With a 32-bit OS, I would set the Page File to a fast, internal, physical HDD, set it to be statically managed, and size it to about 2.5x the installed RAM (~ 10GB in your case, and with a 32-bit OS).
That should provide more resources, and by being statically managed, save you CPU cycles too.
I also agree that you do NOT want to allocate all RAM to PS, as the OS needs some too. That will be counter-productive.
Good luck,
Hunt

IMac very slow esp. in Photoshop, has corrupted fonts

Hi all,
I have an iMac that runs quite slowly after a few hours use, especially when using Photoshop and other Adobe software. What happens is, the processor gets completely swamped with "System" tasks (shown in Activity Monitor as red bars), the result being that "User" tasks are slow and the mouse jumps around the screen, rendering the computer almost useless. I've done a bunch of disk utilities including Leopard's onboard Disk Utility as well as OnyX, and although some errors were found, it was nothing serious. And after repairing, problems persisted.
Now, here's the thing. When I open Console, most of the errors are Adobe-related (mostly Photoshop and Dreamweaver). And I just ran a "Validate Fonts" check in Font Book, and found 15 fonts that have "serious errors, do not use".
So, I've often heard that Leopard, Adobe CS3, and corrupted fonts are a lethal combination. Not that I'm asking anyone to diagnose my problems from across the world, but does this sound like it could be the root of my problem? And if so, what's the proper process for removing the dangerous fonts so they can't ruin anything? Do I just delete them, or do corrupted fonts cause deeper problems which might necessitate reinstallation?
Thanks!

See Font Management in OS X and then these:
http://images.apple.com/pro/pdf/L311277AFontTTv4.pdf
http://www.creativetechs.com/tips/SVC-fonts/Fonts-2007-SVC.pdf
http://dl.extensis.com/downloads/SC/EN/P/FontsBest_Practices_inOSX.pdf
http://www.macworld.com/article/44942/2005/05/julyworkingmac.html
BTW, turn off the bad fonts with Font Book and see if the performance returns to normal.

Slow RAM-thieving Photoshop CC

Similar Messages

Maybe you are looking for