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earthflyer74
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August 12, 2017
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Is my Graphics card to slow for CC

  • August 12, 2017
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I Need some advice regarding Graphics Cards.

I have been using CC now over a year but find my Adobe Apps are struggling with my PC. Have PC for seven years, inside is I7 but my graphics card is GeForce 650 I an wondering if this is now to slow for CC and maybe causing my Adobe Apps to crash or react to slowly. Example, building a html & CSS website in Dreamweaver when I go to view in browser both can't seem to cope at the same time.

Not sure if Graphics card is the issue or there's something I am not seeing.

If graphics card is the issue any recommendation as which is suitable for CC.

Any help would be great. Thanks

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    Nancy OShea
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    Nancy OSheaCommunity Expert
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    August 12, 2017

    If your PC is 7 years old, it has accumulated a LOT of files from operating system updates and security patches to everything else you have loaded and updated.   This has a cumulative effect  of slowing down performance.    It might be prudent to get your PC checked out by a professional. 

    Nancy

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    earthflyer74Author
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    August 12, 2017

    Thanks Ben

    It looks like my system has a lot more than is required but didn't see anything relating to NVIDIA Graphics Card.

    I did see that Adobe has tested my current graphics card but it is now down lower end of the list maybe a new graphics card is due but will it solve the problem I have.

    rayek.elfin
    rayek.elfin
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    August 12, 2017

    The stated system requirements are really the minimum ones.

    How much RAM do you have? 8GB is okay, 16GB or more is better. But it also depends on how much multitasking you do: running several Adobe apps simultaneously will start taxing even quite good hardware.

    Your graphics card has 1GB memory, which falls on the low end. At least 2GB will help, although it depends on the screen resolution and number of screens that you are running. My old 1.5GB card could barely manage two screens - and Windows 10 seems more GPU RAM hungry than Windows 7 I was running before.

    How many screens do you have, and what resolution?

    And does your system run on a SSD drive, or a traditional (SLOW!) harddrive?

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      earthflyer74Author
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      August 13, 2017

      My system has the following:

      Windows 10 Pro

      Intel Core i7     950@3.07GHz

      Ram  6GB

      64bit operating system

      Graphics Card - NVIDIA GeForce 650

      Storage Space 1TB but almost half full

      2 monitors in use:

      Asus 29" resolution 2560 x 1080

      Asus 23" resolution 1920 x 1080

      As for Hard drive, looks like I am on the old traditional ones, Don't recall putting in an SSD drive in this PC when I built it years ago, guess that is something new.

      I usually have Dreamweaver and Photoshop and iTunes running together and browsers open to view my stuff.

      If I double my RAM maybe even a bit more, if my system can do that and replace my Graphics card to Gigabyte Nvidia GTX 1050Ti WF2 OC 4GB GDDR5 PCI-E will this improve my sluggish PC, or is it time just to buy a new PC that is more up to date.

      Thanks for your reply.

      Simon

      BenPleysier
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      BenPleysierCommunity Expert
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      August 12, 2017

      Have a look at the requirements Dreamweaver system requirements

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