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New iMac & Illustrator CS6... I thought performance would be better?

Aug 7, 2012 1:19 AM

I have been using Illustrator CS3 on a Dell PC for the past four years now and have recently moved to an iMac due to frustrations with Windows issues.

 

I am very pleased with the iMac in general  (i5, 2.7 GHz, 8 gigs ram, MD Radeon HD 6770M 512 MB) and Mac OSX Mountain Lion...

 

but I am a little surprised with the general performance of Illustrator CS6.  I don't think that it runs as smooth as CS3 on my old Core Duo Dell.  Dragging objects around the screen, saving files seems slower.  Even when turning alignment guides off I still think that it is slower.  Just generally more sluggish with screen lag compared to what I have been use to.

 

Is this what I should expect?  Do I need more RAM?

 

A bit surprised and confused....

1184 Views   4 Replies   Latest reply: hemmickreef, Aug 8, 2012 1:04 AM
 
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  • Wade_Zimmerman
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    1. Wade_Zimmerman,
    Aug 7, 2012 4:36 AM   in reply to hemmickreef
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    You can read this article it is long but it has a lot of good information, especially about cleaning what is called the personal cache files which is what I think is the issue.

     

    http://helpx.adobe.com/x-productkb/global/troubleshoot-unexpected-beha vior-user-account.html

     
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  • hemmickreef
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    2. hemmickreef,
    Aug 7, 2012 4:52 AM   in reply to Wade_Zimmerman
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    Ok, thanks I will read the article.

     

    I have just installed CS6 so it seems strange to start having to clean up files/cache though.

     

    The only thing that I think may be causing a problem is that I have imported some swatches, graphic styles and some old CS3 templates that I had created on my PC CS3 version.  But I can't see why that would cause an issue?

     
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  • Wade_Zimmerman
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    3. Wade_Zimmerman,
    Aug 7, 2012 5:33 AM   in reply to hemmickreef
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    But I can't see why that would cause an issue?

    If you are a sioftware engineer that might make sense to me but otherwise I am not sure it means much.

     
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  • hemmickreef
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    4. hemmickreef,
    Aug 8, 2012 1:04 AM   in reply to Wade_Zimmerman
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    Has anybody else experienced screen lag/delay?

     

    I did a fresh/clean install of Mountain Lion yesterday, installed CS6 updated everything but the screen lag is still there... maybe an iMac is not powerful enough to cope well with CS6... I suppose then I'll just have to live with it now!

     
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