PS CS does seem to load slower. I believe it has a number of new built in plugins also. With the 40 add’l you’re loading, this would slow it down. Not much you can do other than grab an extra cup of Starbucks.
Rendez,
AutoFX plugins have been identified as causing this problem – do a form search to find the solution.
Len,
I don’t have AutoFX plug-ins and my CS takes about 40 seconds to get past the plug-ins – yet on version 7 (with same plug-ins) it was very quick. I have a lot of plug-ins but it isn’t AutoFX that is causing the problem on my machine. I have even tried switching off the plug-ins with Plug-in Manager – but that does nothing to decrease the load time. Photoshop CS on my lap top (without extra plug-ins) loads in a quarter of the time. To be honest – I am thinking of reverting to Photoshop 7 again unless I find an answer to this problem.
I have the same problem. Here are my loading times on a P4 3.0GHz, WinXP pro, 1.5Gig RAM, 2 WD Raptors on Raid 0 array for the system drive.
Photoshop CS with NO 3rd party plug-ins = incredible 6 seconds! PS with AutoFX PGE 6.0 = 43 seconds
PS with PGE and Mystical lighting = 53 seconds
PS with PGE plus Mystical plus auto eye = 58 seconds
PS plus PGE plus mystical plus auto eye plus dreamsuite = 73 seconds.
With all of the above, PS7 on my old Athlon 2100 system loaded in under 40 seconds. So there is some problem definitely with autoFX and PS CS.
Now try taking the art files for PGE, etc. out of the plugins folder and leave JUST the plugins – it should go back to about 6 seconds.
The "problem" is that Photoshop has to check all the files to see if they are plugins – and putting thousands of art files in the plugins folder just slows things down.
In CS we had to switch to some newer OS APIs that aren’t as fast as the old APIs. That means that the increased load time is proportional to the number of files in the plugins folder.
Chris,
No problem, but why should we have to change settings to get Photoshop to load properly. I know Scott has admitted to a trade off but Hey! we are all pro’s here surely something can be done.
I am compiling a list of possible bugs and complaints and the list is growing ever by the day. Some are serious and some, well workarounds so don’t do anything drastic in releasing a dot launch till i’m done.
Regards
Mark
P.S. thanks for the Impressionist feature. LOL!
Mark – sure, give up unicode filenames, long filenames, long paths, and other modern OS features and we can make file scanning fast again.
Or Microsoft can speed up the new APIs.
Or your plugin manufacturers can stop putting tons of crap in the plugins folder.
