Photoshop slowing down

[Dawelio]

Hey guys,

So my mom has encountered some issues with Photoshop, whenever she does anything, like for example select or deselect a layer in photoshop, it takes a second or more before the change actually changes on the screen.

The specs of her PC is the following, which I built her:

i7 2600K
ASUS P8Z77-I Deluxe
Gigabyte GTX 960
8GB Corsair Vengeance
HyperX 250GB SSD
Silverstone 650W Short PSU with short cable kit

Can it be due to that 960 GPU?, will it any effect if she gets my 980Ti or won't that make any difference?...

Thanks,
Chrazey

 

[Feronix]

Nah mate, I run a 760 and it's completely fine. Afaik PhotoSoup is more CPU intensive anyway, so she should be more than fine with that 2600k in there. Have you checked the system usage? Maybe something else is hogging all the CPU power or RAM, that could have a pretty drastic impact on the system's PS performance.

 

[SuB]

How many layers does the file have that she's working on?
How big is the canvas? (in pixels)
How much space is left on the scratch disc? (if it's setup correctly)

The 980Ti will categorically NOT make a difference, first thing I would suggest is sorting something out for a better, faster, properly configured scratch disc, as this is definitely necessary for photoshop, secondly more ram, ALL the ram. if your canvas is big it needs ram if it has lots of layers it will EAT ram.

 

[Wraith]

What SuB said, 100% what SuB said. Configure the scratch disc and memory memory memory.

 

[AlienALX]

Dude why are you selling your TI?

Also.

Is your mum using a genuine version of Photoshop? like fully paid and licensed?

I'm not going to preach to you because I too use 'free' versions but I do find that they all seem to suffer from bugs. One of them I was using would crash if I selected more than two areas.

 

[SuB]

Dude why are you selling your TI?

Also.

Is your mum using a genuine version of Photoshop? like fully paid and licensed?

I'm not going to preach to you because I too use 'free' versions but I do find that they all seem to suffer from bugs. One of them I was using would crash if I selected more than two areas.

I have a legit copy now but have used and experienced none legit ones in the past, and yeah they can be a bit sketchy, depends how they were cracked tbh.

 

[Wraith]

I never thought to ask, which Photoshop are you using? I know cc has had issue with recent nvidia drivers and nvidia experience interfearing. I use cs6 myself and not suffered anything wrong.

 

[Dawelio]

How many layers does the file have that she's working on?
How big is the canvas? (in pixels)
How much space is left on the scratch disc? (if it's setup correctly)

The 980Ti will categorically NOT make a difference, first thing I would suggest is sorting something out for a better, faster, properly configured scratch disc, as this is definitely necessary for photoshop, secondly more ram, ALL the ram. if your canvas is big it needs ram if it has lots of layers it will EAT ram.

Okay, thanks for that info. Now I'm not completely sure what it means by "scratch disc" though?, is it the harddrive photoshop is on?...

And also not sure what you mean regarding the size of the canvas?... Wow dude, I feel like an complete noob and idiot here :lol:

So the ram wasn't even being used at 50% when I checked task manager, same with CPU. But so give her 16GB ram instead of her current 8GB?

Dude why are you selling your TI?

Also.

Is your mum using a genuine version of Photoshop? like fully paid and licensed?

I'm not going to preach to you because I too use 'free' versions but I do find that they all seem to suffer from bugs. One of them I was using would crash if I selected more than two areas.

To get myself the Gigabyte 980Ti G1 Gaming mate and yes, my moms and my version of Photoshop is a 100% genuine, legit and legal version of Photoshop. No pirated copy here ... Might be true, but consider she's retired and does photoshop as a hobby (basically everyday), then she wanted to get it.

I never thought to ask, which Photoshop are you using? I know cc has had issue with recent nvidia drivers and nvidia experience interfearing. I use cs6 myself and not suffered anything wrong.

Photoshop CS6 Extended, if I recall correctly

 

[SuB]

Okay, thanks for that info. Now I'm not completely sure what it means by "scratch disc" though?, is it the harddrive photoshop is on?...

And also not sure what you mean regarding the size of the canvas?... Wow dude, I feel like an complete noob and idiot here :lol:

So the ram wasn't even being used at 50% when I checked task manager, same with CPU. But so give her 16GB ram instead of her current 8GB?

At this point it's probably best if you just google how to setup photoshop properly.

 

[TPC]

At this point it's probably best if you just google how to setup photoshop properly.

I hate to do it but... +1

 

[Dawelio]

At this point it's probably best if you just google how to setup photoshop properly.

Alright, will do that and see what happens. Thanks.

 

[AlienALX]

Yeah it's important to get your scratch disk right and so on

 

[Asperatis]

Canvas size btw is the width and height of the image she's working on in pixels. It shows on the title bar when working on an image. Usually it says the image's name followed by its dimensions.

 

[kbalaz]

click on efficiency on the bottom tool bar so you can see what its doing. In the preferences under performance adjust the ram usage higher until you notice any issues arise with the OS. You can also turn use GPU to help performance as well in here, if its not turned on, doesn't matter what card you are using. I have 16GB of ram in my rig and a dedicated 120GB SSD for a scratch disc and have still had some files drop below the 100% efficiency with multiple layers. As the others have said, lots of good tutorials just by googling on how to set up photoshop to run more efficiently.