Text typing feedback slow in Photoshop CS4...

[All...@adobeforums.com]

Text typing feedback is noticably slow in Photoshop CS4. I don't have this problem in CS3. Can this be fixed?

[John Joslin]

Yes. Reset the type tool. If it persists check for faulty fonts.

[All...@adobeforums.com]

ive already tried but its still slow...

[Wolf_...@adobeforums.com]

Indeed. Text typing is chronically slow. CS2 does not exhibit the glacial behaviour.

[David...@adobeforums.com]

If you scour various recent posts on this forum, you'll find that the slow typing tool is one of the new and wonderful bugs in CS4 of the kind that happen on some systems and not others, and there is apparently no rhyme or reason for it. For example, I experience many of the terrible brush lag issues reported on this forum, but not the unresponsive text tool. Others report both, still others report text problems but no brush lag. This inconsistency doesn't help the engineers track down the issue, which means a bug fix is that much more difficult.

As much as I'd like to give CS4 a chance, I the current solution to the bugs is not to blame drivers or fonts or virus scanners or third party plugins. The current solution is to use CS2 or CS3 until someday a mega-patch is available to make CS4 function as advertised.

[John Joslin]

I hate to say this, but it is instantaneous here.

[Wolf_...@adobeforums.com]

JJ, I have a suspicion that in your lawn all clovers are of the four-leaf variety!

[chris_...@adobeforums.com]

real time typing in cs4 here too...

Have you tried disabling font preview in preferences - it might help.

What specs do you have? We cannot help if we don't have these details as every configuration is different.....just saying it's too slow isn't enough.

[Wolf_...@adobeforums.com]

Here are my specs. Disabling font preview has no affect on text typing.

Adobe Photoshop Version: 11.0 (11.0x20080919 [20080919.r.488 2008/09/19:02:00:00 cutoff; r branch])
Operating System: Windows XP 32-bit
Version: 5.1 Service Pack 3
System architecture: Intel CPU Family:6, Model:15, Stepping:6 with MMX, SSE Integer, SSE FP, SSE2
Physical processor count: 2
Processor speed: 2128 MHz
Video Card: NVIDIA GeForce 7300 GS
Video Mode: 1920 x 1200 x 4294967296 colors
Video Card Driver: nv4_disp.dll
Driver Version: 6.14.11.7824
Built-in memory: 2047 MB
Free memory: 1308 MB
Memory available to Photoshop: 1692 MB
Memory used by Photoshop: 64 %
Image cache levels: 8
Serial number: ***
Application folder: C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Photoshop CS4\
Temporary file path: C:\DOCUME~1\Khepri\LOCALS~1\Temp\
Photoshop scratch has async I/O enabled
Scratch volume(s):
E:\, 10.00G, 1.94G free
H:\, 10.00G, 9.16G free
Primary Plug-ins folder: C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Photoshop CS4\Plug-ins\
Additional Plug-ins folder: not set

[John Joslin]

Not much room on E:\ !

Is H:\ external?

[chris_...@adobeforums.com]

Also, is the scratch disk on a partition?...If so it's going to cause performance issues a single drive cannot write to multiple locations simultaneously - a dedicated separate drive is needed for the scratch ....and I also wonder if 10gb is enough.

[Kyoko...@adobeforums.com]

Turn off your OpenGL option in Preferences, this might be able to help your performance.

[All...@adobeforums.com]

already have opengl on

[Wolf_...@adobeforums.com]

Turn off your OpenGL option in Preferences ...

Disabling OpenGL does indeed make text typing a pleasure - tap the key and the letter appears immediately on the screen. With OpenGL enabled the text can appear 3 or more seconds later.

No doubt the problems are related to sloppy video driver software, but where in the following document does it indicate that OpenGL can affect the text tool.

<http://www.adobe.com/go/kb405745>

[Don_Mc...@adobeforums.com]

already have opengl on

Yes, but he said to turn it off.

[Kyoko...@adobeforums.com]

I think this is Photoshop issue because I heard that NVIDIA family of cards 7000 series seems to have a problem, so it would be best for you to turn off “advanced rendering” or turn off OpenGL/Preferences.

[All...@adobeforums.com]

I have nvidia 6800 gt card and i also have this problem

[Michael_D...@adobeforums.com]

The nVidia 6000 series is probably 5 years old or so; it's unlikely to be able to offer much GPU functionality to a 2008 program that is taking advantage of advanced CPU capabilities. Good luck.

[Wolf_...@adobeforums.com]

Why are we talking about GPU capabilities with respect to the Type tool? Where in the Adobe documentation does it indicate that the GPU is involved and can affect the performance of the Type tool?

[David_E_...@adobeforums.com]

Here is a web page to "help" trouble shoot all windows based operating systems with slow typing response.

<http://www.pptfaq.com/FAQ00129.htm>

[Kyoko...@adobeforums.com]

The 6800 is the previous generation, and probably needs to run in non-advanced rendering mode as well.
This page is for OpenGL:
<http://kb.adobe.com/selfservice/viewContent.do?externalId=kb404898>