I believe the problem has been solved for me... I called in for one-on-one help with Adobe. It took over an hour, but someone worked remotely on my computer to solve the problem. As i understand it, preferences were adjusted and I was told to use only the latest version of AI. I also turned off auto save in preferences as someone else had called this out as a solution.
All is working smoothly now!!!

GET YOUR S#*! TOGETHER ADOBE! Peoples lively hood depend on how effectively we can work.

Fix the lag, or state the issue.

Yours Sincerely,

Everyone using Illustrator 2020

what the **** is going on? I have a brand new stacked MacBook Pro and I’m getting the rainbow wheel with every edit??????

Someone tell me what the **** is going on!

I filed a complaint with the Better Business Bureau of San Jose, CA due to the lack of response to this issue. I've sent multiple emails with no response and posted on this board a number of times. The issue has been going on longer that a year (same issue in CC 2019 and CC2020) with no response. Unacceptable!

I suggest everyone in this thread file a complaint as well.

Guys, it is true.. Ai is lagging and I can't really design for the clients after my 1 week holidays..
Its 23:16 and i'm cursing since 10 minutes.
What is good: The problems here are in the same time (November 2019)
- Please help us Ai, I didn't pay to work slower. I didn't buy an iMac for a slow and laggy performance

Recently updated to 2020... I am still seeing the same issues when opening and saving documents. Very often it takes several minutes to open a simple document.

Same issue here! Laptop and PC are very close to going through the window. Loosing clients trust here
!@@££@$

Lol apparently i'm not the only one then. getting a 1 second lag for every input. Even super simple stuff like clicking on the ********** tool.

i9 9980xe
Quadro P5000
128GB DDR4
6 TB SSD and a clutter-free computer.

Terrible working with Ai since the latest update. Although, the file size is small, its just SO Slow and i have tried almost all hacks mentioned in Adobe help.
Pls do suggest a fix this ASAP... Ai meant to be smart is totally killing time now....
im using MacBook Pro 2.6 GHz 6-Core Intel Core i7

Geeth

One of the 2019 updates made copy and paste and saving HORRIBLY slow. Same issues with 2020. Normal useability seems OK, but it freezes up and I get the Not Responding message sometimes for a minute when trying to save. Win10 Pro. Dual Xeons 64GB Ram and QuadroP4000. No excuses.

2020 is very slow! I didn't have issues with 2019 but I am finding 2020 is terribly laggy. Please advise fix.

SOMEONE ANSWER THIS!!

2 hours this morning I've done 15 minutes worth of work and 1:45 of troubleshooting and time wasting.

What is going on? Fix this adobe!

I cannot wait until there is a viable alternative to your entire suite. The responsiveness and service you get with your monopolized product is laughable.

Both 2020 and 2019 Illustrator are horribly laggy and gets worse over the work day. Painful to nudge or type (1-2 seconds of lag every input). This needs to be fixed. The rest of the system / other programs open do not have problems, only Illustrator. CPU/Memory/GPU remain < 10% usage at all times.

Illustrator 2020, v24.0
Intel i7-5820k
64.0 GB RAM
GTX 1080 Ti

And that "Gentle Reminder 2" above, I sent an email and they never responded.

Also, discovered that CC2020 is selectively laggy. Meaning sometimes it runs smooth, other times has a LITERAL 2-3 second lag just to select a simple rectangle.

COME ON ADOBE. GET YOUR ACT TOGETHER.

Using an Asus ZenBook Pro Duo
i9 9980HK
32GB RAM
RTX 2060 6GB
1TB SSD
Win 10

Illustrator incredibly slow and laggy. Borderline unusable. Please help.

illustrator 2020. To package a file is really tedious...approximately 5 mins or more just to save a link picture to the Links' folder. End up down version to 2019 then package the file again. What's happening? An upgrade for productivity becomes a downgrade of speed and precious time. Radiculous to even let user to upgrade to a "beta" version.

It's ridiculous how slow Illustrator has gotten. Nobody can work like this.

Processor - i7 8700K @ 3.70 GHz
Video Card - GeForce GTX 1080 8GB
RAM - 32GB
Operating System - Windows 10

Having cursor lag with 2020, feels like I'm drawing through molasses. Haven't been able to work enough to see if there are further lag issues.

absurd waste of time :(

setup:
Processor AMD Ryzen 5 2600 Six-Core Processor
Video Card NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 6GB
RAM 16 GB
Operating System Windows 10

Good Luck with that Lekler. I had the problem with CC2019 and was never fixed. I ran cs6 for the entire year. Good thing I kept it. 2020 is much smoother now but saving is much, much slower.

Knew this would happen once Adobe switched to subscription only. Time to learn Affinity.