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Hello! I'm desperately in need of some help. The work laptop I was provided is not running Adobe products (I primarily work in PS, Illustrator, INDD) well enough. It constantly freezes, crashes, or has the spinning wheel, which is slowing down my workflows considerably. My organization uses sharepoint, and originally we thought the slowness was due to the Sharepoint issues, but now that they have been resolves, my machine is still struggling to run, and anytime I open a single image in photoshop or a 4 page flier in Indesign, the memory usage shoots up to between 75 - 90%. I've spoken to IT who is going to be providing more RAM. Is there anything else I can request that would help Adobe run easier, or any specs that I could ask for to make a case for getting a new machine.
Here are the basic specs I'm working with:
Things we've tried:
I appreciate any insight you can give - really struggling with the choppy workflow and crashes. I work on so many projects simultaneously and this makes it incredibly difficult to pivot and work quickly.
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The main bottleneck in Photoshop is the scratch disk, and I bet that's the problem here. There is no such thing as "enough RAM" no matter how much you have, so Photoshop writes temporary working data to disk. This is known as the scratch disk.
How much free disk space do you have available? Open Preferences > Scratch Disks and post a screenshot.
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Also, do not work off Sharepoint. Copy files to your internal hard drive.
That specific laptop does not have a separate graphics card which will slow things down but it should still be ok, even with 16GB of RAM.
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I wish I could do that but Sharepoint is what my entire organization uses and where most of my files live. Would you suggest I request a laptop with a separate graphics card?
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Thanks for your reply! Here's a screenshot of what I have:
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You also need another drive with more free space.
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How much more free space would you recommend?
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Both the operating system and Photoshop need free disk space. Usually at least a few hundred GB is recommended. A 6TB (6000GB) USB drive runs about US$100 so it shouldn't be a big expense for your IT folks.
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Yes, a newer machine will help.
It is balance of where to spend the money.
However, working off a server is not a supported work flow in Photoshop.
And if opening files from the server is resulting in "constantly freezes, crashes" that may be the problem and not your computer.
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Thank you for your answer! I can forward these recommendations to our IT dept. When I do work with files I've downloaded locally, which I did for quite a while due to our Sharepoint issues, I had the same issues with Adobe products (on top of some other ones). Thank you for taking the time to asnwer.