ATI Radeon HD 5870/1024VRAM driving dual monitors: 23" ACD-1920 x 1200, 30" ACD-2560 x 1600. The 23" holds all the palettes and the 30" is the work area.

I've been reading the various suggestions to shut down the palettes or turn off thumbnails in Layers. Sorry, but that's simply unacceptable. Particularly thumbnails, It's like driving with your windshield painted black. I need to see that stuff. Constantly going to the Layers options to turn it on and off is real work flow kill.

I can work on my  large industrial designfile  in PS5 all day and not have issues. Running the same workspace(s) in PS6, the slowdown becomes an issue. Again, I'd like to point out that a session doesn't start out slow immediately. It progresses over time....suggesting some sort of buffer problem or memory leak.

If it turns out that it's how PS6 now deals with dual monitors and/or palette population, I expect Adobe to deal with it and improve the performance to at least where it was in CS5. Can't wait to see what the next revision brings.

Judging by the amount of reads this subject is getting, I'd say it is a concern to more users than those contributing to this thread.

Is that just on Macs? Im running on WIndows and can't seem to see anything about an Application Frame......

You clearly have a cache problem and or a permissions problem and why you are not reading the article I posted I do not understand it will offer you the remedy you need but you have to read it and yes you have to do some work and if you do this it will bhe fine.

I dumped my cache because I lost some performance which I had initially gain with CS 6 but once I repared the permissions and dumped the personal cahe files all was back to normal and now that I got  my additional 8 GB of memory back so that I now have 17 GBs things are working really well.

Here is the article it is long but offers you the answers you need so you need to read and I think if you don't read it you should stop complaining because it is your own fault zI have yet to see the Bridge crash in CS 6 thought once in a while CS 5 has so this is definitely your problem.

'Here article

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

BTW the application frame or the number of opened panels has no effect on performance here, but then I dumped the personal cache files.

From the discussion so far, it appears that any one of the following is causing a problem:

1. Font cache(Try clearing font cache)

2. Layers Panel (Try to work by keeping it closed)

3. Screen Resolution (Try to work by changing the screen resolution or working in single monitor)

The intention here is that you should be able to find the cause of the problem and not change the way you work. But trying the above things is important because if we succeed to find the exact cause, then getting the solution would be easy as we can report it to Adobe then. I am not sure if discussions like this forces Adobe to fix the problems. It needs to be reported as Bug.

Something funny just occurred to me as I did my work on AI CS5 today. I asked myself: what is the functional difference between AI CS6 and the old, pre-CS v9.0 of Illustrator?

AI CS6 doesn't come in a box heavy enough to be used as a doorstop.

It is not the xeon processor I have a MacPro original and an A3 size Document alt (option) scroll wheel zooms in out really fast, I would say way to fast. Did you check your settings for you mouse?

Is your card working properly.

Have tried trashig your caache files?

Do you have any plugins? Any od fonts like free ones installed?

Any ideas to the problem above? Really any ideas are welcome!

I've seen done a little digging around the web and I think this generation of Xeon just can't take certain operations without chocking one CPU instead of using the other ones as well. So I think the CPU is to blame... I just can't believe it's performs so badly on Illustrator CS6!

Hey All,

At my workplace we recently switched to CS6. I tried everything I could: exploring possibility of corrupt account, cleared font cache, turned off smart guides, worked in outlines. None of it worked.

Then I found the culprit: live previewing in the following panels (any of them previewing will cause this issue) : Layers panel and Navigator panel. This is why working in outlines didn't even help because the computer re-draws all of your data live in full color for your live previews, thus eating up all your ram.

I find that there is still a memory leak in CS6 but I can live with that flaw. Minimizing/closing these panels seem to have fixed laggy issues in my office, certain key commands not working properly and "possessed" cursors.

Just turn off the panels mentioned above, hopefully you experience a vast improvement in performance. As a precaution, I also keep my following panels minimized when not needed: Artboards, Links, Appearance.

Hopefully this helps you, it certainly has benefitted the office I work at.

Hey williams,

Could you please share with us your pc/mac specs? I really want to get to the bottom of this and I cant believe how poor Illustrator CS6 is performing on my workstations. I've changed my HDD with a SSD but still the same poor performance.

I now think it may has something to do with the video card. A strange thing I've noticed in Photoshop: if Use video hardware acceleration is on, the performance is not that good. For example when I hit Ctrl+T (free transform) I have to wait about 2 seconds before I can do anything, other wise works instantly.

I use a Radeon HD3870 and also tried a Nvidia Quadro FX 4600 and the result is the same.

Maybe the two xeon cpus must br paired with a recent generation video card? Not sure if I should buy a new video card or not. I found a pretty well priced GeForce 460. But before I buy it I want to be sure I'm not spending my money for nothing.

@Galateah... I've tried turning off and minimizing all the panel and still this problem persists. It just makes me throw my workstation out the window. Cant believe it works better on my older desktop pc and there's no memory leak there. I feel the impact of the memory leak pretty hard on the workstation after about 15-20 minutes in Illustrator. Everything becomes slow and heavy.

Galateah, could you also share wih us your specs please?

Then I found the culprit: live previewing in the following panels (any of them previewing will cause this issue) : Layers panel and Navigator panel. This is why working in outlines didn't even help because the computer re-draws all of your data live in full color for your live previews, thus eating up all your ram.

I find that there is still a memory leak in CS6 but I can live with that flaw. Minimizing/closing these panels seem to have fixed laggy issues in my office, certain key commands not working properly and "possessed" cursors.

 

Just turn off the panels mentioned above, hopefully you experience a vast improvement in performance. As a precaution, I also keep my following panels minimized when not needed: Artboards, Links, Appearance.

Considering how the same palette arrangement I use in CS5 (using all those you mention above) doesn't affect the performance a whit, I find this "workaround", as helpful as it is, to simply be unacceptable as far as workflow speed is concerned. Do we really need to be constantly turning on and off mission critical UI components to achieve the same performance level as the previous version? I think not.

I'm now suspecting Illustrator's Mercury Performance System implementation. Premier and After Effects took a huge screen performance hit in the initial CS6 release. Their last revision seems to have solved it. Maybe someone on the Illustrator team could call over over to the Premier/AfterEffects team and ask them what they did to improve screen performance.

Have you noticed any difference between files that were created in CS6 vs. files that were originally created in an earlier version and then saved as CS6?

Hey angelamyers,

Yes and no. For a brief period, I thought the issue was using CS4 files in CS6 but then after about an hour, quickly realized that CS6 simply has gremlins when it tries to do any live thumbnail previews. Not sure if that answers your question?

I don't believe all of this is still going on.  Adobe obviously did something that specifically degrades performance.  Illustrator is broken.  There should be no need to update/ugrade anything in a vector drawing program that worked wonderfully in the last version.  It feels like I'm being targeted.  And there is nothing in the program to change video settings, say, like in photoshop.

I'm wondering if that addressed any of these performance issues.

13 listed fixes but nothing addressing the perfomance issues discussed here.

http://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/release-note/illustrator-cs6-0-1-re lease-notes.html

I wouldn't sell your system, it's not the computer, it's illustrator. I have an i7 980X, 256 Intel 502 SSD, 24GB Geforce GTX690 and Illustrator CS6 still runs like a two-legged DOG!  My experience tells me it's a buggy POS, with an obvious memory leak somewhere. Added to the failure of effectively testing this application prior to release, they've now made all perpetual-licensees second class citizens. If I'm going to dump anything, it's going to be Adobe.

Here's why I'm thinking of looking elsewhere;

• Illustrator's performance is worse than previous versions and they're not too swift at fixing it.
• The help system is total crap, hasn't been fixed in two versions.
• New features (including the number one requested, file packaging) are only available to CC members, despite the fact that non-CC users pay more.

Here's the link to the Zorro file

http://forums.adobe.com/message/4415348#4415348#4415348http://

If they don't want your money, what can you do except request a refund until a faster, more stable version/fix is released?  There is always cs5.5, or open source even.  Inkscape is actually a wonderful program.