On my MacBook Pro 6.2
It makes no sense. It was recoded from ground up for as a 64-bit application. Futhermore, I've given it 4GB more RAM, an SSD and an i7 processor to boot.
What gives?
I've resisted the urge to make any conclusion/comment until now but it seems that I'm not alone. I speculate that CS5 does not take advantage of the GPU or I am missing a setting (not by default) that might affect the speed by which it draws/redraws while working.
Mark Dunkley said, "Photoshop CS5 is unuseably slow on my MacBook Pro. Makes CS4 seem like an upgrade"
Problem is I deleted CS4 because I don't like such redundancies and I believed that CS5 was a worthy replacement. Truth is I had a problem with the way CS4 would display its application name with the entire version name (something 100+ characters long that was uber-annoying).
Anyway, I'm hoping an update will fix this but this makes absolutely no sense. Seriously irritating!
Nope, you are not missing a setting: http://macperformanceguide.com/OptimizingPhotoshopCS5-Warmup.html
ReplyDeleteGregory, I've read that but this article concludes that CS5 will behave normally after "warmup". I'm 5-6 hours into using CS5 during a particular session and it's still super slow...
ReplyDeleteI think that the "warm-ups" are Javascripts that you have to pay for that re-configure your computer: http://macperformanceguide.com/OptimizingPhotoshopCS5-WarmupAutomating.html
ReplyDeleteBtw, your work is just getting better and better. I mean, Wow! It is cool to watch you grow and evolve real time.
When I got back into photography, I probably looked at the work of over 500 upcoming photographers and am now closely following just my four favorites. Sorry, you didn't make the cut, but you were in the top 80%.
j/k -- you are one of the "Fantastic Four." Which begs the question, "If you really were part of the Fantastic Four, which superhero would you be?"
LOL! The better question is why or how I could possibly make the cut?!?
ReplyDeleteI took the quiz and the results are in...
http://www.brainfall.com/quizzes/which-fantastic-4-character-are-you/
"You are The Silver Surfer. Chance has it that you're the villain with unbounded power and treachery. Although at most times you are definitely a forced to be reckoned with, deep down lies a confused soul."
I have a response to your response that I'll detail now in words :)
I'd have to agree with Gregory. I've been following your work off and on for the past year and your work has grown immeasurably this past year. I usually give an image on Flickr a quick once over before moving on to the next one, but I find myself double-taking on yours more than a few times.
ReplyDeleteBtw, I just got in my copy of CS5. I have a Windows 7 platform. I haven't installed it yet but I hope it doesn't suffer from the same snail pace you're describing here.
Hey Thomas, thanks for the comment! I hope your experience with CS5 is better than mine!
ReplyDeleteAs far as the growth is concerned, I have high expectations for 2010 :) So far Q1 was good and midway through Q2, we're still going strong! I hope to surpass my expectations for the year and deliver strong results.
Sounds like I'm beholden to shareholders doesn't it? :)
I've had the exact same experience - but haven't seen nearly as many outraged people on the net as I thought I would have.. When I open up my dock, I pass right over the CS5 icons and open my CS4 apps... disappointing :(
ReplyDeleteYeah... isn't that weird? It took me a LONGGG time to find other people with the same problem. I googled this issue left and right but finally discovered more than a few with the same problem.
ReplyDeleteI held off from writing about this, but i've been using CS5 for about a week, and it frustrates the hell out of me! i have a MacBookPro that runs Photoshop CS4 like a dream, CS5 gives me a beachball for 15-20 seconds every action i make! even just browsing to open a file slows the whole system to a crawl!
ReplyDeleteYup, dunno why... it really makes no sense on such robust systems like ours :)
ReplyDeleteI've got the same problems on my rocking macbook pro.. I tought it was some sort of setting but now I see more people have the same problem... Too bad I've to downgrade to CS4 again till this problem is fixed. -1 for adobe this time..
ReplyDeleteSAME HERE!! CS5 Photoshop and Illustrator are ridiculously slow on my 2.66 i7 17" Macbook Pro with 8 GB of RAM. They are unusable.
ReplyDeleteThe sad thing is, I have CS4 running another 2.66 i7 17" Macbook Pro and it isn't running much better. Exporting a 100 percent vector image (1.5 MB file) to an Illustrator EPS took... ALMOST TWO HOURS. And this was the case with both CS 4 and CS 5 on two different i7 Macbook Pros.
WHAT GIVES?
There is an update coming soon... part of my issue with PS CS5 is that I use a Wacom tablet and some functions are slower with the tablet (like Liquify).
ReplyDeleteAdobe is teh suxx0rs ;)
Same problem here. When working on big compositions (+2GB, 100+layers) PS CS5 feels really slow (bigger tiles already enabled). Especially compared to CS3, which was the last fast release on OSX. Running a 8x2,8 MacPro with 16 GB Ram.
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ReplyDeleteI had the exact same experience with a 27 inch iMac with an i7 quad core processor and 8gb of ram, very disappointing.
ReplyDeleteWow... that's even more depressing because the i7 iMac should be even faster!!!
ReplyDeletesame on me, any solution?
ReplyDeleteThey released 12.0.1 recently which addresses the liquify issue. Other issues still exist but for the most part liquify is fixed.
ReplyDeleteI upgraded o 12.0.1 also and other than liquify I see no improvement! I am SO damn frustrated by this. Things CRAWL in CS5. Even resizing a window in Illustrator is a chore! There should be ANSWERS for this. Ive called Adobe and got no help. I have 14GB of RAM on my early 2008 Mac Pro and they suggested I need to assign 90% of the RAM to PS! What?! (Obviously ididnt help). The tech peeps in India are clueless about this over there and I feel like Ive been robbed for nearly $700!
ReplyDeleteFound these links regarding Slow Photoshop CS5. All I can say is WOW.. really Adobe??
ReplyDeletehttp://macperformanceguide.com/OptimizingPhotoshopCS5-cpu.html
http://macperformanceguide.com/OptimizingPhotoshopCS5-Warmup.html
At least there is now hope it will be fixed.
Yeah there are things happening with Adobe's new versions of their products that I can't really explain. Sure we now have content-aware fill but now have to deal with some broken pieces of Photoshop that were just fine in CS4... Fortunately I only paid $200 for the upgrade but still... it does irk me.
ReplyDeleteIt's now 2011 and I'm running (crawling?) Photoshop CS5 on a late 2010 Mac Pro 8x 2.4GHz with 12GB RAM, 2x 1TB internal drives, over 35TB fibrechannel storage...not exactly a low-end system, but EVERYTHING in Photoshop CS5 is slower than CS4 or CS3. And I have all the latest updates.
ReplyDeleteI'm running the sweet on a PC, I fixed the horrible laggy slowness by removing a ton of my fonts.
ReplyDeleteNow I just use fonts as needed, both flash and photoshop running fine.
update your photoshop with the latest update, that sure fix my problem. btw, i am running it on my i5 m 2.53GHz with 3.4gb of ram, it's quite smooth now.
ReplyDeleteThe liquify issue is now resolved but I feel that overall speed/performance of CS5 is definitely slower than CS4 :(
ReplyDeleterunning 12 core, 32G ram. Just moved back to CS4 as CS5 is so slow. A colleague just spent the best part of 3 days with Adobe "help", no result.
ReplyDeleteMore cores might actually be slower :)
ReplyDeletehttp://macperformanceguide.com/blog/2011/20110127_WhenMoreIsLess--macpro.html