PR 2019.2 after upgrading to Windows 10 1809
Windows 10 1809 has resolved almost all of the performance issues I was seeing with PR 2019. After upgrading to 1809 I reinstalled the same graphics driver I was using with 1803 because the upgrade changed my driver to a built in Windows driver.
PC Specs:
- Ryzen 5 1600 CPU
- 16GB RAM
- 512GB NVME SSD
- Radeon RX 480 8GB GPU
Windows 10 1803:
- poor performance with masking brushes (lagging/stuttering)
- Cataloging issues
- Database would take about 10 seconds to close after closing PR 2019.2 and I don't even use the cataloging feature.
- Lag when selecting photos
Windows 10 1809:
- Masking brush performance is greatly improved. It will still lag after a lot of cumulative brush stokes, but it takes far more before performance starts to degrade.
- Database shutdown window doesn't even appear anymore.
- Will test cataloging this weekend
Still see a little lag when changing from photo to photo, but it's about a 50% improvement in speed.
Something else I noticed after the upgrade was a difference in RAM usage. While on 1803, RAM usage was always below 7GB. After the upgrade I found PR would use over 10GB of RAM when working on photos with a lot of masking brush edits and I believe it would have used more if it were available because my system as a whole was using about 92-95% of my available memory. This may be why I started to see the performance decrease. So I ordered another 16GB stick to bump my system to 32GB. I've been wanting to do this for a while, but didn't feel PR would take advantage of it until now.
I also had issues with PR freezing or crashing occasionally on 1803, but so far I have not had any with 1809, but I've only been on 1809 for a day. I will continue testing to see what else I notice, but so far I would say a lot of my issues were because of Windows, not PR.
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Well I've tried it and it's unworkable. A new picture starts off fast but the delays quickly change from seconds into minutes. It crashes too. All work is lost and it just switches to the desktop. Not on just one laptop but two different brands. The commonality is Windows 10 1809.
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What CPU do your laptops contain? I have a Ryzen based desktop and laptop, the only other thing I can recommend based on my experience with these is to install the Chipset drivers from the manufacturer instead of letting Windows use the default drivers. I got a performance boost from that too, but most my issues were resolved with 1809. How much RAM and what graphics card do you have?
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