CS5 Performance 1818 Responses

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• ifeltdave

  Agency upgraded all of us to cs5 last week and ever since my machine has been performing like shit. Today was especially brutal.. two kernel failures in about 2 hours.. After Effects especially. Anyone else upgrade and run into this kind of trouble?

  Sep 8, 10, 6:14 p.m. – Permalink

• nthkl

  Yea, With AFX turn of the multiprocessing and be sure to use a scratch disk other that startup. With PS turn off the open GL in performance unless you have an after market card.

  CS5 is leaning on all your processors and ram if you got it, so upgrading to at least 16gb worth of ram is a cheap fix to speed up your productivity and render times.

  • can cs5 really use 16 gb now? do you really see a difference?– deathboy1/3

    i get its 64 bit and its theoretical but much like sata 6 i figure there is a cap in the software.– deathboy2/3

    After Effects can, Photoshop can probably use a fair bit but not that well.– PIZZA3/3

  

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  Dog-earSep 8, 10, 6:22 p.m. – Permalink

• dopepope

  I find PS in cs5 almost unusable. I love the new features, but I'll only use them if the need for them outweighs all the bullshit pin wheeling and lagging that I'm going to encounter while using it.

  • you should have seen PS CS4 if you think CS5 is unstable– PIZZA

  

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  Dog-earSep 8, 10, 6:28 p.m. – Permalink

• ifeltdave

  ah, thanks nthkl, i have open GL off in PS but didnt know about the multiprocessing in AE.. i'll check that out for sure.

  this is a super new laptop.. 8gig ram / 2.6 ghz processor so i'm really shocked that its running so bad.. but then again, it is Adobe and you can never tell with those guys..

  any other tips send em my way.. thanks!

  

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  Dog-earSep 8, 10, 6:36 p.m. – Permalink

• Boz

  OSX version of CS5 is absolutely awful.. every single app is just unbelievably buggy, it stalls and crashes and in general is really unreliable. And I"m talking Photoshop, Flash, Dreamweaver, AE and Premier among others.

  • complain to adobe and see what they say..– brodyR

  

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  Dog-earSep 8, 10, 6:41 p.m. – Permalink

• DoTheMacarena

  Seriously? Since my upgrade to CS5, I have had far fewer crashes. Even the same crash-prone comps didn't crash anymore when brought into CS5. I'm running OSX 10.6.4 on an old 8-core 3Ghz w/ 13GB of RAM. I know 16 would be ideal, but I still saw a huge decrease in render times and much longer RAM previews. For me, CS5 has been leaps and bounds more stable than CS4.... just sayin.

  • Also, 95% of any crash I have now is usually plugin related.– DoTheMacarena1/2

    +1 just below you. Ram-Previews in AFX are super quick now.– nthkl2/2

  

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  Dog-earSep 8, 10, 6:49 p.m. – Permalink

• nthkl

  Boz, not to be confrontational but I have to disagree on this one. I'm having a very stable workflow experience with increased performance in AFX and PS CS5 vs. CS3-4 considering it's 64bit now and using more processing power and ram. I'm not getting a beach ball in PS or AFX at all in my daily workflow. Even Bridge is way more snappy.

  That said, I'm curious why I'm having a better experience than you guys. It must be super frustrating.

  If it helps trouble shoot I'm on the following:

  8-core 2.26
  Snow Leopard
  nVidia GTX 285
  2x stock nVidia GeForce GT 120
  16gb of physical ram.
  Secondary internal scratch hard drive 500gb, 7200 rpm

  Is it the ram?

  • Macsales is where I buy ram Watch the special notes if you use 4gb and 8gb modules.– nthkl

  

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  Dog-earSep 8, 10, 6:50 p.m. – Permalink

• Boz

  well I'm not using AE that much these days but it crashed more then few times when importing assets as well as exporting to Media Encoder (both AE and Premier).

  Photoshop CS5 doesn't crash often but the biggest issue I have with Photoshop is mysterious slows downs that last seconds. For example, when I go into Layer Effects and click to change color of the gradient. Sometimes it stalls for seconds and the suddenly just unblocks.

  It also happens when exporting files to JPGs or PNGs .. Sometimes it goes right away, sometimes it will stall and go into some kind of loop I don't know and take like 20 seconds to get working again. Sometimes it won't start working again and Photoshop will crash.

  Oh, Flash.. what to say about Flash. That thing on Mac is just absolutely dreadful. During a working day, I have at least 10-20 crashes. I've boiled down to fonts. I've actually used pre-release of Flash CS5 and these are bugs for sure. I've noticed them before and they haven't been fixed with release.

  On PC.... CS5 works great.. All apps in fact.. I did have same problems with AE and Premier but I think they fixed that with the latest set of updates and interestingly enough Flash CS5 doesn't crash on some things that it does on Mac.

  And my Mac Pro is

  8-core 2.8ghz Mac Pro
  Snow Leopard 10.6.4
  Dual 8800GTs
  12Gb RAM
  3x 1.5Tb drives

  • That is very interesting. I haven't tried it on a PC, I'd hate to realize that it was snappier in windows vs Mac OS.– nthkl

  

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  Dog-earSep 8, 10, 7 p.m. – Permalink

• NONEIS

  it's all 64bit now, so you need to watch how much you give to each app a bit mire, AE defaults to leaving 2-3 for everything else, so if you have it and Photoshop and Illustrator open at the same time they are probably fighting for resources - it works amazingly better for me than CS4, crashes less, and feels rock-solid on my 3 year old Mac Pro

  

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  Dog-earSep 8, 10, 7:03 p.m. – Permalink

• hiatus

  I've worked on a macbook(not pro) and no problems pretty smooth. except that my FontAgent Pro doesn't sync with it - when I open up files. My old CS3 is still gravy - unless your really doing some fancy shit. fuck it CS is fine. :)

  

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  Dog-earSep 8, 10, 7:16 p.m. – Permalink

• ETM

  PhotoShop 5.5 runs mad quick on my machine.

  • haha. sweet.– akrokdesign

  

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  Dog-earSep 8, 10, 11:27 p.m. – Permalink

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  Dog-earSep 9, 10, 12:01 a.m. – Permalink

• Akiraprise

  CS5 works excellent on my machine and hasn't crashed much at all, the only thing I find annoying is it won't tell you when it's finished creating a PDF, arrrr!

  

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  Dog-earSep 9, 10, 2:13 a.m. – Permalink

• inteliboy

  CS5 never crashes, far more stable - though draaags my computer down (OS X snow leop). Anything below 4gb ram these days aint gonna cut it.

  Feels like that since the first time I booted photoshop (back in '97 at high school) it's run at the same speed.

  

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  Dog-earSep 9, 10, 3 a.m. – Permalink

• PIZZA

  "it's all 64bit now, so you need to watch how much you give to each app a bit mire"

  Not true, Photoshop and After Effects are both 64Bit, the rest is still the same shit it's always been.
  After Effects is the only one that will truly benefit from multiple cores and piles of ram because it's the one that was built from the ground up with that in mind. Photoshop on the other hand still uses the same old crap code to do gaussian blurs etc which is all probably still single core code.

  Photoshop CS5 is definitely leaner, more on a par with CS1/2 so it does feel faster but thats only because 3/4 slowed it down so fucking much. 64bit will make a difference for print people, web people wont notice any difference because the resolution is so low.
  The only real performance update across the board is the GPU stuff which is good in some ways (better colour picker/zoom) and worse in others (blurry guides, weird bounding box errors, buggy as fuck)

  Things like Flash are always going to suck, it's a complete waste of money giving a Flash developer a machine like a MacPro because Flash wont even come close to using that power because of the antiquated way it's been programmed and is too late for a total rewrite.

  • Try making a flash kiosk at 1924x1080 on a MacBook. AE still only leaves 2-3 for everything else so my logic holds true thanks.– NONEIS1/2

    holds true.– NONEIS2/2

  

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  Dog-earSep 9, 10, 3:18 a.m. – Permalink

• nb

  I've been trying out CS5 for a week, and finding it awful. I haven't had crashes, but running even a single CS5 app causes my computer to slow down to an usable level. It's really slowing down my work day.

  I'm running on snow leopard, and had no problems with CS3. Never bothered to upgrade to CS4.

  

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  Dog-earSep 9, 10, 8:35 a.m. – Permalink

• Xopher

  The live screen drawing in ID was killing my new i7 iMac, something's not right there I'm sure.

  

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  Dog-earSep 9, 10, 8:37 a.m. – Permalink

• dMullins

  It never makes any sense to complain to other about this kind of thing. Every single machine acts differently. Everyone shits brixx about every upgrade. I've never had a single problem with any CS—1, 2, 3, 4 or 5 and I use almost every program: Photoshop, Illy, Fireworks, AE, InDesign, Flash, and even open Dreamweaver sometimes.

  • fuck off, then, this is a complainer's thread :D– ifeltdave

  

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  Dog-earSep 9, 10, 8:43 a.m. – Permalink

• nthkl

  Article on Ram performance of CS5 64 bit:

  http://www.adobe.com/products/cr…

  Review page 3.

  

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  Dog-earSep 9, 10, 11:29 a.m. – Permalink