PhilAJ Posted October 22 Share Posted October 22 My friend has an almost identical PC setup to myself, with the same memory (16GB), the same SSD discs with similar free space on all drives, the same processor, Windows 10 etc...but is having real problems with the speed of use. I have compared all preferences in PS and these are also set the same, including the values for amount of memory to use etc. On my setup - I select a file in LR to edit in PS and once loaded, check in the task manager it shows that PS is using about 2.5Gb memory. When done on her PC - the system shows over 10Gb being used. I've checked that nothing else is running; tried multiple images, tried RAW straight from import images, previously edited .tifs etc, but always this huge discrepancy in memory usage. Any ideas what could be going on? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Posted October 25 Share Posted October 25 Video Cards the same? Drivers the same revision? Sometimes a person will have a computer, such as a laptop, that has two video cards installed and Photoshop is using the lower-powered one, which uses the RAM instead of dedicated Video Memory. Adobe’s products are utilizing the Video GPU more-and-more. Believe it or not, the choice of buying a better GPU is more important than the CPU. The thinking of, I have a fast CPU, lots of RAM and a big HD, so my computer is more-better-er is from 30+ years ago. This no longer applies heading into 2025. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhilAJ Posted October 26 Author Share Posted October 26 I'll check this out. Thank You Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Posted October 26 Share Posted October 26 Also, if you load images into Lightroom and then Photoshop, make sure LR is setup properly in the "External Editing" Tab. You want to make sure you are at 8 Bit. Speaking of which, double-check ALL of your PS Settings, on both your computer and your friend's. Follow this article from top-to-bottom: Setting Up Photoshop Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhilAJ Posted October 26 Author Share Posted October 26 Will check all these settings - thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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