Bamboo Wacom is lagging in PS
Bamboo Wacom is lagging in PS
I got a Bamboo Wacom (CTE-650) not so long ago adn its working mostly fine but one problem im finding is that Photoshop is Lagging sometimes even on what i would imagine would be relatively "light" brush strokes.
Q #1: Do more expensive wacoms perform better e.g. Intuos or Cintiq?
Q #2: Does anyone else find that the Bamboo wacoms are"slow" as in the lag out Photoshop quite easily?
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I got a Bamboo Wacom (CTE-650) not so long ago adn its working mostly fine but one problem im finding is that Photoshop is Lagging sometimes even on what i would imagine would be relatively "light" brush strokes.
Q #1: Do more expensive wacoms perform better e.g. Intuos or Cintiq?
Q #2: Does anyone else find that the Bamboo wacoms are"slow" as in the lag out Photoshop quite easily?
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To make sure it's actually the Wacom lagging have you tried using your mouse? If it is also slow it is probably just photoshop lagging.
A#1: It is better than Bamboo wacom according to many people who use it here. But in my honest opinion if you are to buy an expensive wacom than bamboo. Learn how to draw on it at first while you save like 1400$s approx to buy a good one with the screen and be done with once and for all. Than again this should be the long term plan.
A#2: Bamboo would work same as any other wacom except for the ones that are with the display screen.
Reply to Core of the topic:
Yes it happens to me also. As soon as I start drawing in PS it would work fine for a while. Than it would start lagging. Few people here told me that its a ram and CPU issue and has nothing to do with the tablet.
You might want to try other softwares such as Gimp, Sketchbook pro to be sure if you judged the problem right or not.
I had no problems with Gimp so far and I started using Sketchbook pro. There were no problems related to lags and no messages of "program stopped working."
-a few other reasons for lag that I have come across:
- Version of PS itself: I found I had to do a lot of messing with settings inside PS CS4 to get it to run smooth vs. previous versions of photoshop.
- If you are running windows Vista/7 I think there are some performance settings to tweek within the windows settings to help improve lag.
- Lastly I have experienced greater lag when I have the display in PS to full screen canvas mode ( hotkey F).
./endrant
maybe this helps?
Here are my PC specs;
Processor: AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 6400+ (2 CPUs),
Memory: 3326MB RAM
Page File: 4390MB used, 2461MB available
Operating System: Windows Vista™ Home Premium (6.0, Build 6001) Service Pack 1
Card name: NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT
Display Memory: 1906 MB
Dedicated Memory: 499 MB
Shared Memory: 1406 MB
Current Mode: 1920 x 1080 (32 bit) (60Hz)
I don't think it is a problem with the Bamboo itself. It is most likely caused by not updating Photoshop. See Photoshop CS4 was shipped with this unfortunate bug which caused brush lag. Sometimes it happens, sometimes it doesn't. Just update photoshop and the problem should fix itself. If it were a hardware issue, you'd find the tablet lagging in other programs. You have a decent amount of memory and a decent graphics card, so these won't be causing the problem.
By going into Pen and Input devices in the control panel and going into the settings for "Press and Hold - Right Click" and disabling it.
This. Fixes it every time so far for me.
Control panel>
(Step 1) Administrative tools> services> Find the Tablet PC Input Service.
Right click, stop the service.
Hit properties on Tablet PC Input Services, turn to “Disabled”.
Apply and OK.
(Step 2) Programs and Features > Turn windows features on or off > turn off the Tablet PC Optional Components