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Very laggy brush/other tools in Photoshop CS2. Have tried everything! Help!


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I use Photoshop CS2 for drawing with a wacom graphire4. Recently an intermittent problem has become near-permanent and insufferable. I have tried absolutely everything I can think of, and nothing seems to help.


Basically, using the brush (or any other drawing/painting) tool results in kinked lines. See the picture attached.

jaggycircle.png



As you can see, where I've tried to draw a quick (if dirty) circle, the line, which should be smooth, is kinked. It's as if the pen isn't being sampled quickly enough.


There are lots of possible reasons for this. To eliminate possible suggestions let me run through a(n incomplete) list of the things I've tried so far:


- turned on smoothing in brush options (that's an easy one!)
- altered memory available to photoshop (increasing and decreasing)
- increased windows virtual memory / turned off virtual memory
- tried every possible combination of scratch drives, including not including the photoshop host drive at all
- reinstalled photoshop
- tried tons of image resolutions (from 320x200x72dpi to 3000x3000x300dpi and beyond)
- used a different version of photoshop (2 actually)
- tried every single wacom driver that is still available (about 8)
- tried 10+ different legacy graphics drivers
- reinstalled windows (XP pro SP3)
- reinstalled windows on a new hard drive
- removed my cpu, blasted out the heatsink, replaced the thermal paste and replaced the cooler
- turned off all gpu acceleration both in photoshop and in windows
- run memtest overnight (tons of passes, not one error)
- tried 2 different tablets
- tried every USB port, tried the tablet(s) directly in the usb ports and in a powered USB hub
- tried turning off pen flicks and all the tablet PC stuff
- monitored task manager for any processes that might be hogging CPU time (nothing there)
- increased Photoshop's CPU priority -- no difference.
- tried the tablet in gimp (ugh) -- works absolutely fine, no lag. :I




The other weird thing here -- perhaps the weirdest thing -- is that it's not an inadequacy in my current system: photoshop's worked just fine in the past on exactly the same system. I've also attached an image I drew on the computer when it was working fine.
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It's completely insane basically. I'm no expert with computers but I can usually solve a problem, and this one is completely beyond me. I need help.
 
Make sure your video driver is up to date.


Turn off Edit|Preferences|Performance|Use Graphics Processor


Try resetting the preferences file.
It cures a lot of strange behavior in PS.


Start Photoshop and immediately hold down Ctrl+Alt+Shift (Windows)
or Command+Option+Shift (Mac OS X).


Then, click Yes to the message, "Delete the Adobe Photoshop Settings file?"
 
Steve said:
Make sure your video driver is up to date.


Turn off Edit|Preferences|Performance|Use Graphics Processor


Try resetting the preferences file.
It cures a lot of strange behavior in PS.


Start Photoshop and immediately hold down Ctrl+Alt+Shift (Windows)
or Command+Option+Shift (Mac OS X).


Then, click Yes to the message, "Delete the Adobe Photoshop Settings file?"
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- video drivers are totally up to date
- there's no GPU support in Photoshop CS2 in XP (though i've tried this in other versions of photoshop - no change)
- resetting the preferences file made no difference either, unfortunately. :banghead:
 
I'm not going to re-read your post maybe you did this but try turning off Windows tablet services.
In XP it's Control Panel|Administrative Tools|Services then scrawl down to TabletSevicePen and stop the service.
With a right click you can change the startup type to manual.

Reboot and make sure it didn't start then try PS.
 
Steve said:
I'm not going to re-read your post maybe you did this but try turning off Windows tablet services.
In XP it's Control Panel|Administrative Tools|Services then scrawl down to TabletSevicePen and stop the service.
With a right click you can change the startup type to manual.

Reboot and make sure it didn't start then try PS.
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Yep, afraid I've tried this as well. :/
 
Maybe your stylus or tablet is physically malfunctioning? I mean if all software solutions have been exhausted, the next logical step is hardware.
 
Absolutely, I considered this. But the tablet works fine in other programs, and I do actually have another tablet -- different brand (monoprice) -- which does exactly the same thing. But only in photoshop. :S
 
Fatboy73 said:
Maybe your stylus or tablet is physically malfunctioning? I mean if all software solutions have been exhausted, the next logical step is hardware.
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Absolutely, I considered this. But the tablet works fine in other programs, and I do actually have another tablet -- different brand (monoprice) -- which does exactly the same thing. But only in photoshop. :S

(sorry for the double post; I meant to quote you the first time around).
 
I hate to send someone to a different forum, but if no one can answer your question here, you can try here.
http://www.dave-co.com/gutterzombie/viewforum.php?f=5&sid=ccb60671739433b50f7415dd2d1db17d
If you sign up and post your question in the tricks and techniques section, Chris Cox, a long time designer, programer and creator of Photoshop frequents this forum. He may have an answer for you, but give it some time as he isn't there every day.
And please, please, please, respond if he answers you. I say that because the last person I sent there, posted their question, got a response from Chris and didn't bother to respond back at all. I hope he can help :)
 
Fatboy73 said:
I hate to send someone to a different forum, but if no one can answer your question here, you can try here.
http://www.dave-co.com/gutterzombie/viewforum.php?f=5&sid=ccb60671739433b50f7415dd2d1db17d
If you sign up and post your question in the tricks and techniques section, Chris Cox, a long time designer, programer and creator of Photoshop frequents this forum. He may have an answer for you, but give it some time as he isn't there every day.
And please, please, please, respond if he answers you. I say that because the last person I sent there, posted their question, got a response from Chris and didn't bother to respond back at all. I hope he can help :)
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Thanks a lot -- that looks promising. Much appreciated, and if anyone replies I'll reply in kind, whether Chris Cox or otherwise. :)
 
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