repleo Loc: Boston

Somebody here recommended Puget Systems for custom computers optimized for photo editing and/or CAD type work. There is a lot of information on their web site an how to best spend your money for the various applications.
https://www.pugetsystems.com/solutions/content_creation/photo.php

home brewer Loc: Fort Wayne, Indiana

Task manager opened quickly when only outlook was running. Google Chrome has (9) events running and is using 315 MB and in total 55% of the memory is being use. I notice that there are many programs running in the background. Antimalware is a big user
launching Photoshop ups the memory use to 65% w/o any photos loaded. I need more ram!
disk is <1%, CPU at about 8%.

rebride

also check, especially for disk, when Photoshop is under load, rendering and such. 16GB Ram might work, but Photoshop + D850 probably more.

As a side note. Have peeps from Fort Wayne out visiting right now. My son was a baseball coach for the Indiana Tech Warriors.

Gene51 Loc: Yonkers, NY, now in LSD (LowerSlowerDelaware)

Right off the bat I'd say that you are about 24 gb short on RAM. The CPU is fine. But not knowing what software you are using for your images other than ACDsee is making it hard for me to make a meaningful suggestion.

ralf Loc: NJ

You will not go wrong by shutting down completely each night, and power on the next day. Clears memory guaranteed. Unloads programs that are not being used. Keeps your computer inaccessible to the internet as you sleep (peace of mind! -- bad actors cannot get at your data if the computer is OFF)... I do it like this every day, and I never have memory or performance issues.

burkphoto Loc: High Point, NC

A Mac will run Windows 10 natively, in its own boot partition, or virtually, using VMWare Fusion or Parallels Desktop. Macs can run practically any PC operating system by configuring it in Parallels Desktop. You can even run several operating system environments at the same time, such as MacOS Catalina, Windows 10, and Red Hat Linux. You just need enough resources (RAM, drive space, processor cores, and graphic memory).

Traveller_Jeff

[quote=rebride]Open up Task Manager>Performance to see where the bottleneck is. Do while running the program as it is slowing down computer.

When I had this problem I called up Toshiba service and the owner who is a good friend of mine had three words of advice “clear the cache.” I did, and it worked.

BooIsMyCat Loc: Somewhere

8 gig of RAM? Not enough - Period!
With an i7 processor, you should have at LEAST a 250gig or 500gig SSD drive... BUT, you don't mention if you have much in the way of FREE space or what.
The assumption would also be that you are running Windows 10... BUT, are you?

FunkyL Loc: MD

there are folks here who can give you a better technical answer than I, but, even using PSE rather than Photoshop, I ran into memory issues with my older laptop a few years ago. We added additional memory till we maxed out the amount of additional memory we could add to the machine. Restarting sometimes helped temporarily. Selectively closing or uninstalling programs that I rarely used helped temporarily. upgrading from windows 7 to windows 10 made the issue worse - unfortunately my older laptop just didn't have the resources to keep up with the new demands on it and I replaced it when PSE became so slow that it no longer worked in any practical sense. Current laptop has more than enough memory, at least for now.

DavidPine Loc: Fredericksburg, TX

Not enough ram. Consider 32gb and get and external drive to keep you photos alone with an external cloud service like one drive or dropbox.

rebride

[quote=Traveller_Jeff]

Right. I haven't used Adobe for awhile, but remember it had a dedicated function for clearing somewhere in the menus.
Dell also has SupportAssist for optimizing the PC.
https://www.dell.com/support/home/us/en/19/product-support/product/dell-supportassist-pcs-tablets/drivers

bpulv Loc: Buena Park, CA

Do you have a Mac or PC? It sounds like you probably need more RAM. For Photoshop and the large D850 RAW files, you need at least 16 GB on a Mac for it to run efficiently, although it should work with 8 GB. I don't know what the requirements are on a PC. With 8 GB, I would only open a few files at a time and see how that works until you can install more RAM.

JeffDavidson Loc: Originally Detroit Now Los Angeles

I open about 15 D850 RAW files (converted to Adobe DNG) but have 32GB RAM. 8GB generally won't do as well.

Good luck.

tgreenhaw

Photoshop can use a lot of memory especially if you have large and/or many images open.

When you run out of RAM, your computer will combine hard disk space with RAM to make enough room in memory. This is called virtual memory. Virtual memory allows thing to run, but when used even more than a little, it makes your computer very slow.

Closing as many programs as possible before using Photoshop may help a lot. Google Chrome for example can use a lot of memory, especially if you have a lot of tabs open.

After closing programs and checking basic settings, increasing RAM is by far the best solution.

Adding a solid state hard drive is also an excellent idea. This will help if you absolutely need to rely on virtual memory.

Photoshop also uses disk space (scratch disks) when handling large files. It is strongly recommended that the scratch disk used by Photoshop not be the disk that your operating system boots up from. Ideally the Photoshop scratch disk is a solid state hard drive. In Photoshop go to Edit/Preferences/Scratch Disk to select the drive Photoshop will use to supplement RAM.

Also in Edit/Preferences is Performance settings. Here you can select how much RAM you want to let Photoshop use so that enough is reserved for your operating system and enough other programs. You also want to be sure to check the Use Graphics Processor box if possible. If you cannot, and you have a good video card, be sure that you have the latest video drivers loaded.

Finally you may want to look at what else is running on your computer. You can google "using task manager and performance monitor to fix slowness" for ideas on how to address basic maintenance.

pego101

16 gig is enough