Melbourne_Creative

Unfortunately I don't always have control over the PDFs. Often they are supplied. However, I'll try changing the viewing options to load only a single page. That's fair. It's mainly InDesign that is the cause for concern, but I suppose this is just how it is. I'm certain that performance has gotten worse since the Creative Cloud 2020 update but it's hard for me to corroborate that with any evidence! Hardware acceleration is definitely enabled and graphics drivers are always kept up-to-date. However, I'll look into processor affinity. Have never tried this but if it works, it might be worth doing. Thanks!

Hi. I'm a graphic designer by trade, and have noticed a significant drop in performance recently when working in InDesign files and viewing PDFs that contain numerous large graphics. My PC is a Windows 10 machine with a 7700k (OC'd to 4.5ghz), 32GB DDR4 Ram, a GTX1080, a Samsung 970 Evo boot drive, Samsung 850 Pro drive for files and 850 Evo drive for cache. I also use a 2014 i5 iMac when working from certain locations, and my Windows machine has always demolished this. However, recently the Windows machine's ability to cope with these files seems a lot closer to the iMacs. I've monitored Task Manager and HWMonitor while working in these files and it doesn't seem like anything in the system is being overloaded or driven very hard, with the exception of a CPU utilisation spike to 96% on one thread while InDesign was attempting to load a page full of assets. Is this simply poor multi-threaded support from Adobe or is there something I can do to improve performance in this area? Help is greatly appreciated!