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IamLil
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November 27, 2018
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Adobe Support Guy told me my brand new 16GB Ram laptop wasn't good enough

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Is anyone running CC19 without lag on their 16GB RAM laptop? I bought it 3 days ago and it is one of the highest recommended computers for editing and running premiere pro but it was lagging and freezing pretty badly on a basic video.

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Bill Engeler
Inspiring
December 14, 2018

It might help us to know the codec for the media you are using. This makes a huge difference, as something like GoPro h.264 can make even a very powerful system choke (although probably not so much at 1080p).

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IamLilAuthor
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November 27, 2018

I tried moving it from the external harddrive to internal and still no improvement. My laptop is 4k editing a 1080p video

Abambo
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AbamboCommunity Expert
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November 27, 2018

So your screen is a 4k screen and you are editing HD video. 4k screens are cool, but they eat-up a lot of resources just to move pixels on your screen. That may or may not be the problem.

It may also be that there is a faulty device in your laptop or as indicated above, that the drivers are not up to date -- or that the up-to-date driver is buggy. Do not trust Windows to update the drivers to the latest version on its own.

If you suspect the current version of Premiere, install a lower version and see if that one works ok.

ABAMBO | Hard- and Software Engineer | Photographer
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IamLilAuthor
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November 27, 2018

I agree, it's it's useless but I didn't have a choice. Although my previous 4K laptop which had worse specs didn't have this problem

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IamLilAuthor
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November 27, 2018

Hey, specs are:

8th Generation Intel® Core™ i7-8750H Processor (9M Cache, up to 4.1 GHz)

512GB M.2 Solid State Drive Storage

16GB RAM

NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 1050Ti with 4GB GDDR5

Abambo
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AbamboCommunity Expert
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November 27, 2018

Where is your video stored and what is your resolution?

ABAMBO | Hard- and Software Engineer | Photographer
Abambo
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November 27, 2018

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IamLil  wrote

I bought it 3 days ago and it is one of the highest recommended computers for editing and running premiere pro

What are the other specs then?

ABAMBO | Hard- and Software Engineer | Photographer
Govardhan.V
Govardhan.V
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November 27, 2018

16 GB or more is recommended.

However , while u face lagging when running the Premiere Pro application , check for the  RAM utilization under Task Manager.

We need to make sure whether the lag is due to RAM usage or any other underlying issue.

Important:

Make sure BIOS and Firmware version is up to date.

Also check for Drivers update , especially for those listed below :

1) Graphics card.

2) Chipset.

3) Audio driver.

4) Rapid Storage driver.

Sample Screenshot:

Note:

Also make  sure to set Virtual Memory to recommended or try to increase it.

It will be helpful , you can share the System configuration.

Reference:

Adobe Premiere Pro System Requirements

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IamLilAuthor
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November 28, 2018

Been playing around with turning Adobe's background stuff off and still glitching, this time the playback is now glitching - when I try to playback its like it gets stuck on the timeline and keeps replaying the same 1 second over and over again and when I try to do it in another part of the timeline the same thing happens. Screenshot shows memory at that time.

System deets

8th Generation Intel® Core™ i7-8750H Processor (9M Cache, up to 4.1 GHz)

512GB M.2 Solid State Drive Storage

16GB RAM

NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 1050Ti with 4GB GDDR5

My virtual memory has been set as 3607 but the recommended is only 2910 - would this play a factor?

Govardhan.V
Govardhan.V
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November 28, 2018

Memory utilization is ok. Laptop System specs is pretty good.

*What is the Laptop make and model?

*Whats is the version of graphics card driver installed?

* BIOS version?

Note:

As suggested above you can try lower version of Premiere Pro CC for testing purpose  or you can also uninstall and reinstall the application once.

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