Nik Suite Has Killed My Photoshop!

futureal33

futureal33

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I recently downloaded the full Nik Suite from Google and have been enjoying it for the past week or so.
From opening a RAW file, clicking the "Colour Efex Pro 4" button to launch into the Nik Color Efex Pro 4 editing tool, it was taking about 2-3 seconds. Then when applying a process technique (skin softener as an example) it would take maybe 3 seconds to create a new layer in PS and apply it.

I was happy with that!

However... over the past few days, both of these steps are now taking 10-15 seconds to complete and it has completely slowed down my workflow. Also, it crashes occasionally halfway through and also takes CS6 with it - thus losing all my open files.

I am pretty sure I haven't changed anything in terms of settings, and I cant think of what could have caused this sudden change..

Any ideas?

Thanks
 
I had a lot of issues with nik stuff. Hdr effx was murder a while back, even getting it to work at all was a major operation taking 4 computers and several weeks of messing about, even after that it crashed often enough to be virtually useless, I've given up using most of Niks stuff, even silver effx 2 works much slower than the old version.
 
Could be a RAM issue. Have you tried clearing the cache?
 
Maybe look into clearing the Photoshop scratch disk too? That regularly slows down my editing.
 
mjogreen said:
Maybe look into clearing the Photoshop scratch disk too? That regularly slows down my editing.
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Doesn't Photoshop clear it's scratch disk when closing? It does on mine. It creates a temp files on my dedicated scratch disk, and that file closes and disappears when I close photoshop.
 
futureal33 said:
Sorry to sound silly but how do I clear the cache?

I have 16GB RAM, which is what its always been and its only recently slowed down?
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In Bridge, go to Tools>Cache>Purge Cache For Folder... (I'd do a general clear, so pick whichever folder has all your image files in, rather than a folder at a time.)

May also be worth checking that your thumbnail generator is set to 'High Quality On Demand' (rectangular icon under the -TA of METADATA on the top toolbar of Bridge)

This said, 16GB of RAM should be plenty, but give it a go.
 
Color Efex 4 was loading slowly and sometimes crashing for me when in use with CS6 - I looked at the Memory Useage in the CS6 Preferences tab, and increased the amount of memory, Photoshop was using from 55% up to 70%, this seems to have improved things for now. Im using appx 10Gb of 16 available.
 
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