Slow performance with moving objects to layers

[Intuos5]

For the city size files I am often working with, I notice a very heavy performance hit when I drag-move objects to a particular layer. Designer freezes, when I move just a ~50th of the objects to a layer. On the other hand, if I group all objects and promote the group to a layer, this happens instantaneously.

This is on 10.5.1342

Here's a video, which shows that moving objects outside a layer (with a hotkey) is pretty fast. Moving objects into a layer (I purposely chose a small amount so that it wouldn't freeze up) is just as fast as grouping all objects. It's a bit hard to tell, since I can't show when I pressed a button though.

I really need to move lots of objects over to other layers, so if that causes Designer to freeze (didn't let it run for longer than 5 minutes), whereas grouping > promote to group is just 10s, then there's some performance to be gained. Even if it's just grouping objects in the background > move the group to the layer I am dragging the objects to > ungroup.

 

[Lee D]

It's worth checking to see if Hardware Acceleration is enabled within the apps Preferences > Performance section. If so, please try turning OFF and then restarting the app and trying again.

Is this only happening on this particular document, if so can you provide a download link?

[Intuos5]

@Lee D It appears that dragging objects into layers becomes noticeably faster with Hardware Acceleration turned off. Though it is still far from performant, e.g. the cursor still lags when I initiate a drag to move the objects to the layer on top. And that's with something like a 20th of the objects. I don't notice any differences with grouping/ ungrouping between the two modes.

Download link is here:
https://we.tl/t-uWxeTksY7c

 

[Piltsen]

I was looking on the internet for the same issue... I also tried turning the Hardware accelaration off, to no avail. But as soon as I turned off the Snapping tool it went back to normal. I think this is the reason why it is slow... it tries to analyse all the objects vertically and horizontally every time I select and move an object. Perhaps limiting to the closest ones or the ones on the same artboard, should resolve the issue. And leaving it as an option on the Settings. Hope this helps.