MamaMonkey

Makes sense!  Thanks for taking the time to explain things in ways I can actually understand   I think it might be fun to go down the build our own machine route, but we will see.  If we do, I'll certainly be asking a lot of questions here! lol  For now things seem to be running okay, actually BETTER than what they were before 🤞  I finally went out an bought a new cable for my old monitor and the colors are back where they should be *whew*.  Hopefully things remain peaceful over here for a while  

On 2/6/2024 at 6:12 PM, Brian said:

Plus, you have a Dell, 

what's wrong with a Dell?  You recommended the one I have way back in nov of 2019 

but alas, my budget wasn't enough to buy something to last I'm sure...

Thank you for all the help and time you've spent problem solving all my crap for me!!!    I really do appreciate it!  Computers are so frustrating for me. 

So I changed the color profile back to Srgb and everything looks fine.  Can I not calibrate this new monitor ( LG 27" FHD IPS 3-Side Borderless Monitor with Anti-Glare & AMD FreeSync™ (1920 x 1080) - 27MP40W-B)?  

As luck would have it it seems machines talk to one another and we now have a fridge on the fritz and a car broke down.  No new pc in my future!  lol 

What do you know about colormunki's, other than they've been discontinued?  I paid the fee to upgrade the software to make it compatible to the calibrate colorchecker, but something has gone drastically wrong as you can see below 😵‍💫

As Michael Scott -- 

Oh and It was definitely the cable for the monitor.  I unplugged it from the back of the monitor and it basically fell to pieces 😂 

I don't think it was mounted correctly at the time, it's all back together now, but running really slowly.  I've updated Nvidia's drivers, but am unsure what else I should look for ?  Even opening word takes several minutes.  SupportAssist on Dell suddenly says it isn't compatible with my OS all the sudden

On 1/24/2024 at 4:17 PM, Brian said:

If you want a more shallow DoF, you also might have to lower your flash power. Remember, Aperture Relates to Flash Power, Shutter Speed controls ambient light. So what lights are you using? 

It's a digibee 400.  Not the best light on the market, but I only pull it out 3-6 times a year.  If I lower my flash power then I will need to increase my IsO, right?  I've always adjusted the flash power to light the scene in situations like this one.  

For reference here is the new video card 

And power supply

Evidentally it has something to do with either the cable for my monitor or the monitor itself. A different monitor seems to work (New monitor LG 27" FHD IPS 3-Side Borderless Monitor with Anti-Glare & AMD FreeSync™ (1920 x 1080) - 27MP40W-B)

Most recent photo with all the stuff inside 

Lol. Sorry! It looked simple enough.  The display was plugged into the nvidia ports at the bottom.  Attached is a photo...

Computer was completely unhooked from everything, in a different room in fact, when installing the ram.  Seems like all 4 of them are in all the way.  Husband even went out and bought a new nvidia card and power supply, but I've been saying too that something must not be hooked up right...

Dell u2412m

All my monitor info is in this thread 

Bad news.  New sticks came and now the monitor won't leave power save mode.  Put the old sticks back in and same thing. 

It's another Me problem, I'm sure!  I have a Canon 6d mark ii and shoot regularly with Canon 24-70 2.8 ii.  The 24-70 rarely leaves my camera.  I also love my 70-200 but I find it hard to get sharp photos even with shutter speeds of 1/1250 (but that's probably a different post!).  Anyway, meet my 4 year old son.  My settings are 3.2 1/160 and ISO 160. Focal length 70mm. I was using OCF and my max syn speed is 160. Should I be using high speed sync to get more photos in focus when dealing with little kids?  It was probably every 3-4th photo that has acceptable sharpness.  I do photograph newborns with the same set up, but my f stop is always 7.1 and I never have focus issues.  I have it set at 7.1 for the family photos and then just leave it there.  I was testing what 3.2 would look like with my 4 year old as when it's just the newborn in the photo, I would love to try a wide aperture for more shallow dof.  I back button focus as well.  Here is SOOC and 100% crop.  Thoughts? 

Thank you Brian!  I will start putting some away for a new computer.  I figured the problem was me 😵‍💫  why order 2 kits for 4 16gb sticks vs the kit that comes with 2 32GB sticks? 

I have a PC desktop running Windows 11 and Photoshop up to date. It is over 3 years old, and has 16GB of RAM. Its hard drive has 592GB free out of 915GB, and it runs a NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti graphics card. The last time I shut down was just before posting this thread. I run a cleanup program about once a week.

592 of 915gb free on the hard drive

Hey Brian, I need to add more RAM to my computer before I go office space on it!  I've spent the last 3.5 hours trying to prepare 27 files to send to a client.  I've  made it through 15 and rebooted...twice. My clients are waiting way longer than they should because I can't get my machine to do it's job. Probably because I didnt buy something good enough in the first place.  Thanks for the help!  

Thanks again for all your help and knowledge!! What is the average life expectancy of video cards and computers?  The one I have is 3.5 years old

SOLVED!!!!!!! https://helpx.adobe.com/camera-raw/kb/acr-gpu-faq.html

step 6 appears to have solved my problem!!!  HALLELUJAH!

2 hours ago, Brian said:

…and this is a Hail Mary Pass. If ACR still doesn’t like your Graphics Card, you are either buying a new card, replacing your computer or downgrading Photoshop, ACR, and Bridge to an older version that last worked. You will then never upgrade to a new version of PS. The days of running a modern copy of PS on a 5 year old computer are over. 

It’s only money, right? 

Maybe it's only money if you have a lot of it?!  Haha

At any rate, I found that sniffer file, but now NVIDIA won't show the Select Graphics Processor drop down.  Also, I can't find the camera raw exe file anywhere!

Thanks for all your time and help with this!!!

and now I have this lovely error

I should have mentioned earlier- I am using Bridge 12.0.4 because the most  up to date version of Bridge was buggy in the past.  Both versions are listed.  Maybe that is also causing some conflict?

11 hours ago, Brian said:

Fourth, this is the sneaky thing with Dell and other manufacturers. Sure it's a NVIDIA Card, but it may not be one with 100% of the horsepower of true NVIDIA cards you buy off the shelf. This saves the manufacturers money, but you get screwed in the end when software starts complaining. So in reality, if you can't get the drivers to increase performance of the video card to make Photoshop happy, chances are you are looking at replacing the video card and possibly the power supply to support the new video card. It's up to you if you want to throw $1000 or so in doing this to your computer. I usually recommend a 850 Watt Power Supply to go with a NVIDIA RTX 3070, NVIDIA RTX 3070 Ti or NVIDIA RTX 3080.

no way would the hubby be in for dumping $1k into this computer or for buying a new pc either 🙅‍♀️ 😆