CS2 slowdown, and Bridge

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Ronald_Hirsch
Apr 30, 2005
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I’ve been reading a bunch of posts on the DPR retouching forum relative to CS2.

There have been many posts regarding slowdowns in CS2 compared to CS, generally associated with Bridge. But what isn’t clear is if these slowdowns are ongoing, or primarily associated with internal processing that CS2 may have to do, to get its "ducks lined up", caches created, et al.

My copy of CS2 has not arrived yet, so I can’t comment on any of this first hand. My system is a P4 2.4 GHZ, 1 GB RAM, and hundreds of GB of free hard drive space.

I probably have too many fonts installed, and I have been considering moving lots of them into a standby position via the MyFonts manager that I use. But, I’ve always thought that large numbers of fonts primarily impacted the load time of the program, not the time to do internal processing of images, once loaded.

Hopefully within a year I’ll be getting a new system using a new 64 bit processor, and 64 bit OS, and with at least 2 GB of RAM, >500 GB of HD space,and all the usual bells and whistles. This should be more than adequate for any program, including CS2.

Any comments from those who’ve already upgraded to CS2 re the "slowness" situation.

Ron Hirsch

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Mick_Murphy
Apr 30, 2005
Adobe Bridge aside (I’ve not really used it much as yet), CS2 is slightly to significantly (25-30%) faster than CS for a range of operations like resizing, sharpening and blurring that I’ve done a few basic speedtests on using files up to about 50 MB. I’ve only had it a few days so I’ve not had time to check it out in great detail yet. My machine is a 2800 Athlon with 1 GB of RAM so similar to yours in specs. So I would guess you will have no problems for general use.
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skid00skid00
Apr 30, 2005
Just as with the CS file browser, Bridge takes time to build the folder’s image cache.

On my 1GHz 512MB pc, Bridge takes almost all cpu cycles to do this.

Once that is done, Bridge navigation, ACR, and PS seem 20% faster than CS!
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dave_milbut
Apr 30, 2005
But what isn’t clear is if these slowdowns are ongoing, or primarily associated with internal processing that CS2 may have to do, to get its "ducks lined up", caches created,

that’s my experience (tested last night). some slowdowns when entering an uncached folder while bridge builds the cache (about 500-1000 2 meg-ish files per folder). after a couple minutes (MUCH faster than the browser ever was!) snappiness was restored to CS2.
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chrisjbirchall
Apr 30, 2005
I’ve not done any comparison tests – or looked at the task manager – or counted CPU cycles or anything like that.

All I can tell you is that CS2 seems much faster and smoother in virtually every aspect.

And in my book that’s all that matters. I’m a happy bunny!

Chris.
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Ian_Lyons
Apr 30, 2005
One thing you might want to try is setting Bridge preferences to use Distributed Cache rather than the default Centralized cache (Advanced). Unlike FB these are updated continually and very often you’ll find that they build marginally faster. The downside is that distributed cache files (2 off per folder) will appear in every folder you look at with Bridge.
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dave_milbut
May 1, 2005
sorry to cut in on this thread, could some kind moderator add a link to the brige forum to the gray box above (near the links to the ps mac forum, etc)

also will there be a bridge feature request forum or should we use the ps feature request area?
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Andy Blanchard
May 1, 2005
On Sat, 30 Apr 2005 15:43:58 -0700, wrote:

One thing you might want to try is setting Bridge preferences to use Distributed Cache rather than the default Centralized cache (Advanced). Unlike FB these are updated continually and very often you’ll find that they build marginally faster. The downside is that distributed cache files (2 off per folder) will appear in every folder you look at with Bridge.

So, assuming that the two cache files in each folder are not a problem, are there any other differences between the two cache file storage methods?

Andy
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LenHewitt
May 2, 2005
should we use the ps feature request area?<<

NO!! Bridge engineering won’t see feature requests posted in Photoshop Feature requests – and Bridge is NOT an element of Photoshop and is equally applicable to all applications in the CS2 Suite.

could some kind moderator add a link to the bridge forum <<

the link has been there for a couple of days…
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dave_milbut
May 2, 2005
NO!! Bridge engineering won’t see feature requests posted in Photoshop Feature requests –

so is there/will there be a feature request area?

the link has been there for a couple of days…

thanks. did you use the time machine to do it? 🙂
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viol8ion
May 2, 2005
I noticed the link to the Bridge forum a couple days ago, and I don’t even have CS2 or Bridge….
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LenHewitt
May 2, 2005
<<did you use the time machine to do it?<<

No, but it suggests you need to delete either the browser cache or your eye cache <g>

so is there/will there be a feature request area?<<

Not at present, but I’m sure there will be in the fullness of time. As adding a forum is not something I’ve ever had the need to do, I don’t want to mess up a currently very busy forum by experimenting! (There are implications when adding the newsreader name for a forum or sub-forum)
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Ronald_Hirsch
May 2, 2005
Len,

Since I don’t have my copy of CS2 yet, I’d like to read up on exactly what Bridge does, and how it functions. Any good links to get that info?

Some of the questions I have are

1. Does Bridge do it’s cache generation when a folder is first used.? Or – –

2. Can users specify a group of folders, or a tree, and let Bridge do its lengthy activities to generate the cache et al when the user would like – say when the machine is not being used.?

I have read some general info on Bridge, but I’d like to read the nitty gritty. Apparently it is a common file browser for several Adobe programs. I don’t really use any other Adobe programs, other than Acrobat Reader. From the little I’ve read about Bridge, numerous users were happy with the Browser in CS, and would like to have it back.

So far as I’m concerned, I like the CS Browser also. I hope I’m pleasantly surprised with Bridge.

Ron
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Chris_Cox
May 2, 2005

1) Yes

2) No, but you can point Bridge at a folder and tell it to cache that folder and all folders underneath it
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LenHewitt
May 2, 2005
Ron,

My copy of CS2 hasn’t yet arrived so I can’t directly answer your questions. However, a read through the posts on the Bridge forum will answer many of them.
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dave_milbut
May 3, 2005
No, but it suggests you need to delete either the browser cache or your eye cache <g>

eye cache. gotcha.
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Michael_D_Sullivan
May 3, 2005
Bridge is damn snappy on my obsolete machine (p3-733, 768MB RAM) once the cache is built; snappier by far than File Browser in CS. Cache builds much faster than in CS, too. Thanks, Chris.

My bitch is that the "OS Dialog" for File Open, etc. is DOG slow. Like it hasn’t finished displaying thumbnails in a directory of a couple dozen large images after 15 minutes, even though the directory has the FB (CS) cache and Bridge (CS2) files in it. I upgraded my video drivers (nVidia) to the latest, but no improvement results.

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