I am suffering very sluggish performance when using PL9 on my M3 Max (16 inch model with highest specs when released). I am using PL9 to process Canon raw format images and notice very slow performance to the point of utter frustration!
It does not take too long for the MacBook Pro to perform slowly and then start heating up - I have applied all the recommended tips users have recommended. I would be interested to hear whether anybody else is going through similar levels of frustration. If this continue, I will be switching back to Adobe!
Update - I changed my AI Acceleration to GPU only and then restarted. Whilst conducting my next set of photo editing, I did not select DeepPrimeXD3 until I had conducted all other edits. So far, this seems to have worked and the M3 Max is not getting hot (only warmish). I have experienced no sluggishness. like previously.
So, for all other Macbook M3 Max owners - or Mac users in general - maybe this approach might work for you.
Definitely not normal. I have an M4 Pro chip. I do not have full rendering turned on, but pretty much every frame I edit uses XD3. It can start getting a little slow if I have a lot of complex (particularly AI) masks in use, but never to the point of heating up enough to cause the fans to be audible.
My files are 25 megapixels. I’d guess larger files would put more load on, but not so much I wouldn’t think.
Definitely don’t turn on DeepPrime XD until all the other edits are done. Be very careful with AI masks. I could not make any changes to framing once I had a single small set of four.
Maybe it was because they had been copied over from another image and were going crazy. Maybe it’s just because of AI masks. But they are a huge performance gotcha, together with the DeepPrime processing.