DocPixel-BMW,

 

OK.... just ran across major performance degradation in CS6. I was working on some logos and after about the last 3 hours, a noticable slowness became worse and worse until I shut Illustrator down and restarted it.

 

Memory leak? Clipboard problems?

 

 

PS. zooming, panning, etc. were most effected. Now with a new start of Illy, everything is fast as normal.

I'm finding the same exact problems with AI6. Starts out OK and over 2-3 hours zooming, panning, dragging, resizing...etc. all slow down to an intolerable level. Same drawings on AI5...no problems.

Memory leak or memory purging seems to be my first guess as well.

On a 12 Core Westmere w/20gb RAM. This is not good.

Gaussian Blurring itself in Illustrator CS6 was re-tooled, so not only is CS6 working with 64-bit processor operations, it's also new code generating the gaussian blurred drop shadows.

Therefore, I think comparing CS5's to CS6's ability to apply drop shadows doesn't provide useful test results if wanting to compare CS5's and CS6's general performance, since CS6 would out-gun CS5 in the drop shadow department even if it wasn't 32-bit.

Is my convoluted way of communicating with other humans makign sense here?

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In other words - using drop shadows alone to test 32-bit VS 64-bit performance can't be conclusive because there are differences between CS5's and CS6's drop shadow effect, beyond 32/64-bit.

whut?

WUT!

I'm also seeing terrible performance in CS6. In CS5 / 5.5 I couldn't use Illustrator at all (crashed / ran out of memory).

I have a file 300 compound paths with solid color fill and no other effects or other stuff. Most paths are very small with 10-20 anchor points, 15 or so are large with around 200 anchor points.

Simple actions like locking a layer or changing the layer order take 45 seconds. Changing the fill color took just over a minute.

In CS5, since I couldn't use Illustrator at all, I just started using Photoshop. It was MUCH faster and 64 bit. I thought I'd try to use Illustrator again since it had all these performance improvements for large files, they even mentioned cartography specifically (this is a map).

Photoshop's only issue with vector layers (for my use) is it has become even worse for subtracting one vector shape from another. I get errors all the time. I figured I'd give Illustrator another chance. I can't believe how slow it is.

System: Windows 7 x64, i7 3GHz, 24GB ram.

Everything I do in Illustrator uses almost no system resources. If it were simply an issue of being a large file and needing a beefy computer to handle it all, then I'd see my processor and/or ram getting hammered. But that's just not the case. I'm sitting at 6.4 GB RAM used and never go over 13% (about half of one core) CPU usage no matter what I do.

Photoshop has no issues at all with manipulating the vector shapes except the vector shape combining error. I'll just deal with that I guess and go back to PS.

So, here I am with one software designed for vectors that is super slow, and another that's much faster but has errors all the time on a simple operation.

Sigh.

I also noted that the perfomance on my machine (MacPro SSD, 12gb Ram, 8 core, QuadroFX 5600) is sluggish, quite the diference between CS5. I only hope Adobe gets his hands on this and fix it. Meanwhile I'm returning to CS5

Same here. I always found Illustrator a bit sluggish on the Mac compared to Windows but this version is worse. Screen-redraw panning and moving around object is even slower than before. I found out that this 'sluggishness' is also related to how OSX redraws. I use OSX's Quartzsimple utility to disable beam sync which really improved performance in this respect in CS4. Unfortunately it doesn't make as big of a difference in CS6 but it's a bit faster. You might want to give that a try.

Macbook Pro 5.5 / Mac OS 10.6.8 / 8GB Ram

Yes, you are totally right!! hopefully thet note this and do something about it.

Geeze, might as well use Microsoft Paint instead.

I have observed that we are distributed on this post with some people facing the issue and many are not. This makes me believe that those having problems have something different from the others not having the problem. This difference can be in the screen resolution(which I asked for in my last post) or monitor set up or may be in the kind of work that you do. Based on my long experience with illustrator, I can see some of the possible areas of difference causing the problem. These are:

1. What kind of workspace are you working with. What panels are open while you are working on Illustrator. Any one of the panels might be the culprit. Try closing all the panels and then work. See if it helps you isolate the problem.
2. What kind of artwork do you make with Illustrator. It might be some effects or a particular art type causing the problem. Please share the details as some art type or effect may be causing the problem.
3. How long does it take for this problem to become apparent.

Discussing issues on the forum would give fruitful results only if we provide some constructive feedback and asked information so that others can help.

Also, I would like to mention that whenever I come across such a problem, I prefer reporting it as a bug @ https://www.adobe.com/cfusion/mmform/index.cfm?name=wishform. You may also use the same approach.

you may not have to close out all the panels. with some hit and trial you should be able to isolate the panel that is causing trouble to you and then ask the forum if others are seeing it too. As lot of other users on the thread I am not facing any performance issues.

Closing the layers panel makes a significant difference to me and practically remedies the problems ive been having. Its certainly nice to see illustrator working smoothly again but sadly i need the layer panel open. Almost there  : )

On a Mac my display is 1920 x 1200 and CS 6 clearly out performs CS 5

Have you read about dumping the personal cache files that might change things, you can reade about it here.

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

I've narrowed my constant crashing down to the navigator not updating quickly enough when i zoom in and out. If i grab the navigator red cube and its not updated correctly....crash. Have closed it (although i am finding it hard to adjust workflow without it) and i so far have not had a crash.

screen res 1680x1050

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.