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- Claymantis
I have a brand new top of the line mac pro laptop. But in photoshop it chugs when opening small images or dropping images into a PSD. Also when I use the type tool to copy paste certain characters its super slow.
Anyone know why?
Thanks!
- eatbreathdrive0
i dont know when mac users will get their moneys worth when it comes to investing in such delicate genius machines. i think hard disks and memory are still shit even in latest notebooks
- except they aren't, but you are definitely allowed to "think" somonospaced
- nikdaum0
First step: open up activity monitor and see what processes are consuming the most CPU and memory.
- monospaced0
Photoshop runs fast on my old Mac.
- never update, comes to mindeatbreathdrive
- and faster on the new onemonospaced
- I think it might be the graphic driver compatibility issue. oddly photoshop 7 is actually faster than CS4 on my computer lolpango
- i'm talking about my PC tho...pango
- its crazy because this is the best money can buy... and its chuggin... wtf..
Claymantis
- bored2death0
You're going to have to be more detailed than that...
- could it be the application?eatbreathdrive
- im running cs6Claymantis
- Claymantis0
Everything seems to be fine. Its just photoshops chugging on stupid things that it should NOT be.
- nb0
One thing I noticed with Mavericks is that every now and then Photoshop would get super slow.
What was happening is that Spotlight (Search) was starting the process of indexing an external drive that I had connected. If I did a search, I could see at the bottom of the spotlight pop up pane a progress bar that said "Indexing EXTERNAL_HD" but it would never ever finish. I let it run overnight one night, still didn't finish.
What I found online was that Mavericks can't index certain formats of drives. Mine was formatted to FAT32 or DOS or something, instead of Journaled Mac format that works with Mavericks. For some reason, it can't index the FAT32 drive, but it hasn't been programmed to ignore indexing those drives. To solve the problem I just set Spotlight to ignore that drive in the Prefs.
- interesting. good infoGnash
- spotlight indexing only takes 1 major passmonospaced
- Yeah, the indexing works perfectly if the hard drive is a compatible format. But, if it's FAT32 then it hangs up and will never index.nb
- ... never stop.nb
- Gnash0
Consider turning off "Automatic Graphics Switching" -- meant to save battery life on laptops but can slowdown programs that need the juice.
- Gnash0
you can also try disabling graphics acceleration in PS prefs and see if that helps
- bored2death0
I quick google search shows there are major issues using CS6 on Mavericks.
- To be fair a quick google search will show major CS6 issues with all OS'shereswhatidid
- lolnikdaum
- To be fair, a quick google search of any problem will find many others with said problem.nb
- Mavericks had a ton of issues with Adobe software at first, but many of those have been resolved with Mavericks upgrades. AE was the worst case.CyBrainX
- upgrades. AE was the worst case.CyBrainX
- robotinc0
I have a year old mac and kernel_task was eating all my resources. Its the process that handles things like spotlight indexing.
There are several threads about it, but I havn't done anything about it yet as i have no time
- animatedgif0
"major issues using CS6 on Mavericks"
Why am I not surprised?Forced obsolesce, Photoshop is very poorly coded anyway and mostly single threaded.
"I have a year old mac and kernel_task was eating all my resources. Its the process that handles things like spotlight indexing."
No... that would be mds & mdworker and probably anything else with md (metadata) at the front of it.Kernel_task:
"The kernel uses a single task—the kernel task—with multiple threads that perform kernel operations such as scheduling, thread reaping, callout management, paging, and Unix exception handling"Badly coded .ktexts might be causing it problems though, e.g things that require drivers like external soundcards etc
- HAYZ1LLLA0
Can you reinstall? I had to with CC. I nuked all previous traces of CS6 too using this... http://www.freemacsoft.net/appcl…
seems good now.- of course she can reinstallmonospaced
- she can afford the best mac laptop available, she can surely afford $10/month for photoshopmonospaced
- monospaced0
What did Adobe suggest when you called support on the issue?
- India told him to go fuck himself.utopian
- Why don't you let her respond? Whenever we have issues with Adobe, they are helpful immediatelymonospaced
- We're assuming the software is purchased?CyBrainX
- well, if it isn't, the little fat bitch shouldn't be complaining about itmonospaced
- "Buy Creative Cloud"animatedgif
- benfal990
dont want to throw oil on the fire, but i was on Mac before and I turned back to PC almost 3 years ago and I can tell you how quick my PC is compared to the Mac Pro I had... I did some test side by side and the PC was faster than the Mac. but the main point here is the PC is almost half the price of the Mac. (i know i've said this many times in here)
- what fire?monospaced
- I tried Adobe apps on both windows/mac os on the same iMac (bootcamp) and they're the exact same speed.monospaced
- the perpetual fire burning between Mac and PCbenfal99
- the fact here is that you can get a much more powerful machine for less money when you go PCbenfal99
- So your suggestion for someone experience problems with software on their mac is to switch to PC?hereswhatidid
- Your argument is true, benfal, but not to the extreme you're implying.monospaced
- @hereswhatidid, i know iam off topic. thanksbenfal99
- The Dell equivalent of the top-of-the-line MBP is only 10% cheaper, and has none of the built-in apps.monospaced
- Isn't there a mac vs pc thread you can post this garbage in?hereswhatidid
- < From "Switching to Mac" to BRAND WHORE in less than a yeraPixter
- i dont care about the OS anymore. iam always in Chrome or Adobe. Both are the same on both OSbenfal99
- I could care less what you use, just don't pollute a thread about a legitimate question with a flame warhereswhatidid
- boobs0
But then you'd be running Windows, and where's the fun in that mess?
- "This bowl of human shit is way easier to chew than your steak"animatedgif
- ESKEMA0
Spotlight Indexing can be a pain in the ass if it goes wrong for some reason. Being a FAT32 drive is no reason because I have one, and had no problems with it. I had some Spotlight problems with Lion so it's not exclusive to Mavericks either.
there are various techniques to put Spotlight back on track. Just google Spotlight Indexing.- This is pissing me off with my iMac. It takes ages to boot up due to indexing – every time.Ianbolton
- CyBrainX0
Is spotlight Indexing something that would specifically affect Photoshop. She seems to be ok outside of Photoshop.
I would suggest downloading a trial of Photoshop CC just to see if that has the same problems. If you have a version of Photoshop CS5 try that too. At least you could narrow it down to software and not hardware or OS.
- animatedgif0
"Photoshop CC just to see if that has the same problems"
It likely doesn't, Adobes support for even last years version of CS on newer operating systems is fucking atrocious, always has been. Scummy company.
- animatedgif0
You'd think will all the development teams they outsourced to India they'd be able to do it on the cheap
- i_was0
"I tried Adobe apps on both windows/mac os on the same iMac (bootcamp) and they're the exact same speed."
Shut up idiot.- what, you don't like that I actually tested it?monospaced
- how does testing it make me an idiot?monospaced
- because you tested it on the same machine hahahahaha....fadein11
- That makes me an idiot? I thought it would be a fair comparison, considering the same hardware and all.monospaced