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katufo
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April 20, 2020
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Need support for Installing Adobe Photoshop and System Requirements. Low-End PC

  • April 20, 2020
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I'm planning to purchase/bought/download Adobe Photoshop on my computer but I need help if I can install and run it smoothly on my 'low-end' computer? I'll make a like Picture Cartoons and other like-3D effects on pics using Adobe Photoshop. I have my system information below, I was going to downgrade windows 10 to windows 7 so it won't get lag when using photoshop and so it can be install. Any help, advice, tips will be appreciated and I'm sorry for my bad grammars and english. Thank you and Keep safe!

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JJMack
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JJMackCommunity Expert
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April 20, 2020

I would suggest adding RAM you want photoshop to run smoothly you should have a least 16GB of Ram IMO My processors are only 2GHz and Photoshop works well.    3GB is marginal Adobe recommends 8GB. You need to have the latest device driver available for you display adapter. Windows 7 is old and no longer supported by Microsoft security problem are no longer being addressed  I would suggest if you want to use Windows 7 for performance reasons that you limit the number of time  you connect it to the web. 

Windows

  Minimum requirement
Processor Intel® or AMD processor with 64-bit support*; 2 GHz or faster processor
Operating system Microsoft Windows 7* with Service Pack 1 (64-bit)**,
Microsoft Windows 10*** October 2018 update (64-bit) version 1809 or later
RAM 2 GB or more of RAM (8 GB recommended)
Graphics card nVidia GeForce GTX 1050 or equivalent; nVidia GeForce GTX 1660 or Quadro T1000 is recommended
Hard disk space 3.1 GB or more of available hard-disk space for 64-bit installation; additional free space required during installation (cannot install on a volume that uses a case-sensitive file system)
Monitor resolution 1280 x 800 display at 100% UI scaling with 16-bit color and 512 MB or more of dedicated VRAM; 2 GB is recommended †
OpenGL OpenGL 2.0-capable system
Internet Internet connection and registration are necessary for required software activation, validation of subscriptions, and access to online services ††

* Cloud documents are not supported on Windows 7.

** The 32-bit version of Windows is no longer supported. For support with 32-bit drivers and plug-ins, use earlier versions of Photoshop: Links to prior version installers and updates.

*** Not supported on Windows 10 versions 1511, 1607, 1703, 1709, and 1803.

† 3D features are disabled on computers having less than 512MB of VRAM. 

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JJMack
    davescm
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    davescmCommunity Expert
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    April 20, 2020

    The minimum system requirements for Photoshop are here:

    https://helpx.adobe.com/uk/photoshop/system-requirements.html

     

    If you want to use 3D then you will need a graphics card with dedicated VRAM (not shared with system RAM).

    What is not mentioned in the system requirements is that Photoshop uses a lot of disk space whilst working (known as scratch disk) so you need plenty of free disk space (over and above the space for installation and storing images.

     

    Dave

     

     

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