Hardware advice please

[Plumrose]

Please forgive a long tech question but I really need some advice.  I'm a photography enthusiast who spends a lot of time editing raw image files in Adobe Camera Raw.  My image files tend to be around 82 MB.

I run Windows 11 Home (x64) Version 25H2PC on a PC with Photoshop 27.1.0.  The CPU is a 3.00 gigahertz Intel Core i7-9700F. There's 32GB of memory.  C: drive is a 512GB NVMe SSD which is about 70% full.

The computer is 6 years old.  A few months ago I became concerned that Adobe Camera Raw was running increasingly slowly, particularly when I'm using the new AI masking functions.  The machine was originally fitted with a Geforce GTX 1060 3GB GPU, so after taking advice from the computer manufacturer I replaced this with a Geforce RTX 3050 8GB.

I have seen little or no improvement in the speed of masking or anything else in Camera Raw.  More seriously, when I'm partway through an AI-masked editing procedure I now frequently get a report that "the GPU has encountered an error and will shut down" (or words to that effect).  After this happens I can no longer edit in ACR until I restart the computer.

I'm aware that a number of Photoshop functions nowadays are carried out in the Cloud and my internet connection speed is only 60 - 70 Mbps download and 18 - 20 Mbps upload.  I know this will affect the speed of any Cloud functions.  Nevertheless, I can't understand why my GPU keeps falling over, even when I'm not carrying out a Cloud function.

Device Manager say that my GPU is functioning properly and has the latest driver software.

Can anyone please offer me any advice on (a) why this keeps happening, and (b) what I can do about it?

Many thanks for reading all of this!

[Glenn 8675309]

Open your nvidia app and look for the latest drivers there.  I have an rtx 3060 with 12gb ram so what you see may be slightly different.  Don't pay too much attention to what the "sytstem" says, pay attention to what's listed in your nvidia app (not the control panel.)

Check your settingss in your pse preference file, I always check the use gpu option.

Check out the advances settings option you see in the second image below.

[jane-e]

Check your settingss in your pse preference file,

By @Glenn 8675309

Hi Glenn,

Can you update your response? The OP @Plumrose is using Photoshop 27.1.0 and ACR instead of PSE.

Thanks!

Jane

[Glenn 8675309]

Dang!  I was all over the place this morning!  Ill fix it.

[Plumrose]

Thanks jane-e!

[Plumrose]

Thank you for your advice, Glenn 8675309

I have checked the Nvidia driver in the Nvidia app and I'm definitely running the latest one.

I have also checked my PS performance settings against your graphic and they all match or exceed yours - see below.  

So I'm still scratching my head!