PSP is 2020 is awful. Slow to load slow to respond. Anyone

[Jean-Luc]

Just curious, what does the script on each photo? 5 minutes seems very long for me.

[divine_si]

Just curious, what does the script on each photo? 5 minutes seems very long for me.

It's multiple scripts, four on each photo. So by the time that it loads each plug-in, processes it, closes, and loads the next it's about 5 minutes for each photo. The first is a sharpen plug-in, the second is a denoise, the third is a highlight and then the fourth creates multiple layers and does slight color adjustments on each.

Having to do it manually for each photo sucks, so I run them in a batch process.

[Jean-Luc]

I suppose when you say "plugin" you mean "script".
What is the size of each photo (in pixels)?
Does PSP stay open during the process? I observed that closing the Materials Palette and the Layers Palette increase the speed. PSP needs some time to refresh those palettes.

[divine_si]

I suppose when you say "plugin" you mean "script".
What is the size of each photo (in pixels)?
Does PSP stay open during the process? I observed that closing the Materials Palette and the Layers Palette increase the speed. PSP needs some time to refresh those palettes.

I have each script load a different specific plug-in and carry out a certain action.
The pics are full size, 5623x8434 from a Sony A7 or 3646x5472 from Canon - +/- a little due to cropping.

That's interesting about the Palettes. I've never tried that, I will the next time I have a bunch to do and see if that makes a difference.

Yeah, I have multiple monitors set up, so I have have PSP on one monitor so I can watch it. There have been a few times that it's frozen while running so I like to make sure it's actually working.

[Jean-Luc]

I see your images are huge (not by themselves but for PSP capacities).
I suggest also if you don't need it, to not save the history. Go to File / Preferences / General Program Preferences / Miscellaneous / uncheck Save edit history to image metadata

Do you have the possibility to check in other programs or in stand-alone mode how long these plugins take to process your images?

[SullyPanda76cl]

This seems intresting....
Has anyone else tryied?

Suddenly ran into the same problem with a very long startup.
It turned out, that blocking the 'phone home' to Corel was the problem.
Must allow access to Corel site 23.78.47.220 and possible 2.23.141.32, 23.56.184.75, etc.
Blocking the Google sites access seems OK.
Now PSP 2020 starts instantly to the Edit mode.

[lionel]

I recently had the same very slow (30s or so on a fast computer) launch times on PSP 2022. This for me was absolutely unacceptable, I was even looking for an alternative image editing solution. The slow start had not been happening previously.
I found a YouTube video that addressed the problem by redirecting a few Corel sites it was looking for on startup to the local host (ie your own computer - IP 127.0.0.1).
The video suggested adding lines to a file calles "hosts" in C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc
The lines added were:
127.0.0.1 corel.com
127.0.0.1 ipm.corel.com
127.0.0.1 www.corelstore.com
127.0.0.1 content.corel.com
HOWEVER I am running the 64 bit version of the program and that only fixed the startup for one instance then it reverted to slow on subsequent starts.
I put the same information into C:\Windows\SysWOW64\drivers. The etc folder wasn't there so I copied it there from the System32 hosts file that I had already edited.
That solve the slow start problem.
NOTE though that if you open the file "hosts" in an editor(Notepad, Wordpad etc) it will save with the extension .txt
I then renamed the file, removing the extension. You need to grant Administrator permission to do that and also when copying the new "etc* folder into SysWOW64.
Hope this helps.

In my research I also discovered why some resizing was taking forever (far worse than startup).
The reason is that if you resize an image to something greater than 100% PSP automatically selects AI-Powered as its resampling method. Use the drop-down menu to change it to something like Bicubic and resizing will be almost instantaneous.
Hope that helps too.