InDesign 2017 Is Not Enabling the GPU Acceleration While Photoshop 2017 Does

[Guest]

Hey there people. I installed Illustrator 2017, InDesign 2017 and Photoshop 2017 on my Windows 10 laptop.

Here is the situation

• Photoshop 2017 works great with GPU acceleration.
• Illustrator 2017 works OK without GPU acceleration.
• InDesign 2017 is painfully laggy while panning and zooming the pages that I work on.
• GPU Performance section and GPU performance activation button are missing on InDesign 2017.

My laptop specs are

• Intel P8700 CPU
• NVIDIA 9600M GS GPU
• 4 GB RAM
• 240 GB Kingston SSD

Do you have any suggestions to enable the GPU acceleration on InDesign 2017? I already tried the performance tips that I found on the forums and they didn't help either. Please help me about this problem. Thanks.

[BobLevine]

That feature is Mac only at this time.

And that is pretty underpowered machine. Old processor and 4GB of RAM is barely enough to run the operating system.

[Guest]

I know man. But Photoshop 2017 has GPU acceleration activated by default.

It's a shame that Adobe doesn't implement a must-have feature even in the year 2017.

[Steve Werner · Accepted solution]

You're preaching to the choir.

If you want to tell the product managers, post your wish here:

Feature Requests/Bug Reports

[talhatayyab]

This is an abject tragedy and failure on part of Adobe to not bring this feature to windows. I'm surprised such few people are complaining about this issue.

[BobLevine]

You can't miss what you never had and frankly, I wish I had a dime for time I had to tell someone to turn it off because it causes more trouble than it's worth.

[talhatayyab]

I do understand what you mean, but in that case I think the code should be optimised to provide smooth performance in GPU usage, not to just take the option away.

Every time I use InDesign I have to wait for bits of lag to go away so that the screen can render properly. Never had this problem in Photoshop, and my specs are quite decent.

[BobLevine]

And what exactly are those specs?

For reference, I'm running a home built machine with a 6th generation i7, 32 GB of RAM, 2 GB video card and all apps and O/S are on a 500 GB solid state drive.

Using build 1709 of Windows 10 Pro.

I am not seeing any issues with performance.

Additionally, I just bought a new HP Spectre x360 with 16GB RAM and no problems there either.

Just so you understand I'm not apologist, I had all kinds of issues on my previous machine which was 6 years old and had been through in-place upgrades from Windows 8 to 8.1 to 10. If you've been through that route, a clean install might help.

[alfarostudios]

It's insane huh? I'm definitely not re-subbing in a couple of months when the time comes.