Primal Decals 621 Posted December 10, 2015 Running a lenovo workhorse laptop----Does anyone know what these should be set at to get full performance out of ai? unless my issue is the file size im importing. I have a new laptop with 16gb ram , a 2gb quadro k620m graphics card with a 1 tb ssd drive that has 760gb free space. So im hoping someone has a clue as to what settings i can change and where to boost Ai to its full potential, i also have my pc set to full performace. The file size it is lagging on is about 600mb and thats a svg file that consists of 25 letters 3" tall by 43" or so long that has camo masked into the font to make my design. so i think thats why its so large.Thank you in advance everyone. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
dcbevins 340 Posted December 10, 2015 Virtual ram should only come into play when you run out of main ram. As you have 16gb of main ram, it shouldn't happen. It confuses me some as to when Illustrator uses system virtual ram vs it's own scratch disc setting. I think the scratch disc setting just was a way to move virtual memory to an auxiliary drive that might be faster than what Windows normally uses. One thing that can go wrong, is that somehow virtual memory is being used when it should not be. I am not sure what could cause this to happen. Maybe if you have set virtual memory too high someplace, it is kicking on some process to use it when it shouldn't. I would wonder if lowering it or turning it off in Illustrator would improve things. I would set the Windows setting to let Windows manage it. It could be nothing has gone wrong and the performance your getting is already near the top. A 600mb file in a 16gb ram environment shouldn't be horribly taxing, but miracles shouldn't be expected either. The program by Sysinternals, (now MS owned,) called Process Explorer could help you figure out where resources are going. Maybe turning on or off GPU acceleration could help. https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/kb/gpu-performance-preview-improvements.html Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Primal Decals 621 Posted December 10, 2015 Thank you Dcbevins,I will check it out. im just confused that this would lag like this with this system ,its more than enough with everything, guess im just lost .. Thanks bud.. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
FrznFire07 217 Posted December 10, 2015 what version of Illustrator? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Primal Decals 621 Posted December 10, 2015 what version of Illustrator? cs6 v16 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
signyouup 178 Posted December 10, 2015 When it starts to lag, open up "Task Manager" and click on the performance tab to see how much memory you are using and what "CPU" usage is. If either of the is extremely high click on the "Processes" tab and lick on the column labels to sort that column to see what is causing the high usage. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Primal Decals 621 Posted December 11, 2015 When it starts to lag, open up "Task Manager" and click on the performance tab to see how much memory you are using and what "CPU" usage is. If either of the is extremely high click on the "Processes" tab and lick on the column labels to sort that column to see what is causing the high usage. Ya ive already done that and i dont go over 17% and i disabled all the high use programs that i dont need.. i think its due to the file size of over 600mb file size i think lol. there is alot of masking that was done .. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
FrznFire07 217 Posted December 11, 2015 I'm not an expert by any means, but I know with the older Illustrator programs, they tend to have a much harder time with imported files vs files created by illy. Especially the bigger ones with a lot of points. many times when we run into this issue I just end up re-drawing image in my version and things tend to run much smoother. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Primal Decals 621 Posted December 11, 2015 All help is accepted no matter how small it may be.. Thanks everyone. had a little improvement with the vr ram change Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Wildgoose 4,200 Posted December 18, 2015 One thing that might be going on is AI will re-render anytime you make changes so if you have any 3D or sometimes gauzian blur and shadow effects it can bog down. Actual file size may not be the issue rather the work on effects going on might be. Try adding in the effects after all the other work is done? Similar to deselecting the preview option when doing 3D. If you do a massive 3D look it can then be really slow until you expand the look and then you are back to normal. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Primal Decals 621 Posted December 19, 2015 One thing that might be going on is AI will re-render anytime you make changes so if you have any 3D or sometimes gauzian blur and shadow effects it can bog down. Actual file size may not be the issue rather the work on effects going on might be. Try adding in the effects after all the other work is done? Similar to deselecting the preview option when doing 3D. If you do a massive 3D look it can then be really slow until you expand the look and then you are back to normal. Thanks goose. when i masked all the letters it just made the file so big and took for ever to load etc .so what i did was reset my settings in Vram and scratch disc and so far it is working but i havent opened up that same file since lol... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
