System Components

[Stumann]

I was wondering what system components some of you are using. I'm using PSP X8 (64-bit) right now. I would like to upgrade but I'm afraid of things getting slower than they already are. Maybe I'm expecting too much, but there are times when processes take longer that I think they should. Here's what I have now:

Windows 7 Home premium 64 bit
DirectX 11
AMD Phenom 4 CPU Processor 3.4 GHz
16MB Ram
1600 x 900 display
2 TB HD with about 30% free space

Is there any one single change that would make things noticeable faster, or I expecting too much.

[bruce1951]

I think there have been many posts in the past about the speed of PSP. To my recollection there wasn't any one magic bullet to speed PSP up. I've never really had a speed problem with PSP. (i5 Win 8.1). However I seem to be one of the few who works on the computer without being connected to the net all the time. So maybe there is a link between speed and being on line?

bruce

[LeviFiction]

My laptop is far less powerful than your system. It's a 5 year old Alienware and most functions in PSP run at a very decent speed. What all is running too slow for you? I notice many things really start to slow down if the images are quite large and have multiple layers.

With any update, always download the trial and test it out yourself.

[Stumann]

I use large images, 24 megapixel, 6000x4000. Some of the plugins I have seem to be the slowest, (which aren't Corel products). Imagenomic Noiseware is one of the culprits. It sometimes takes as long as 45 seconds to process. That may not seem like a long time, but when you're in the middle of doing something, it seems like forever. Using unsharp mask is another one that seems slow. I'm probably expecting too much.

[bruce1951]

Just to clarify my setup. I run an i5, Win 8.1 on a 5 year old laptop with 8 gig ram and run files around the 250 - 300 meg with multiple layers. PSPx8 is always slow to start up the first time. About 15 - 20 seconds. After that PSPx8 starts up in about 5 - 7 seconds. Every now and again some functions take 10 - 15 seconds to perform. But nothing to get all excited about.
The thing is that I have nothing else running apart from Photoline. (I use Photoline as my editor and PSPx8 as an external editor from within Photoline).

My point - While I'm a longtime user of PSP, Jasc days, I don't use it as my go to editor. IMHO it has become bloated and has fallen behind the market expectations. Corel certainly doesn't help either. But having said that I don't believe slow performance can be aimed squarely at PSP's feet. There are so many variables on all our computers. So many demands. We expect way too much. The simple fact that after numerous complains and posts on these forums there hasn't been a single answer that speeds up PSP on every ones system. Therefore we all need to look at our systems before getting all excited about PSP being the culprit.

No I'm not not blaming PSP. I'm just saying look at the big picture.

bruce

[hartpaul]

I note from your profile info that you only have 2 Gb of Ram. That could be part of your problem. When there is a lot in Memory and something complex is being done my inderstanding ( I coulfd be wrong) is that unneeded material is written to disk to free up RAM. So this also involves the speed of your disk drive. I switched from an internal 7200 rpm Sata drive to a SSD drive and immediately noticed improvements in speed aspecially in loading the programs. Loading PSP X9 for first time went from at least 18 seconds to just under 8 because of the faster access to the drive.
I also have 8 Gb of RAM and the C drive is only about 60% full (1 TB drive) .
So increase RAM , use faster C drive for a start, and making sure the C drive is not close to full.
Finally of course which involves a lot more changes is to get a faster motherboard and processor.

[Jean-Luc]

I was wondering what system components some of you are using.
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Is there any one single change that would make things noticeable faster, or I expecting too much.

If you are running different PSP versions on your computer, you may test their respective speed with this script. It creates an empty image, add some drawing, applies some tools and show start time and end time :

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[Stumann]

I note from your profile info that you only have 2 Gb of Ram. That could be part of your problem. When there is a lot in Memory and something complex is being done my inderstanding ( I coulfd be wrong) is that unneeded material is written to disk to free up RAM. So this also involves the speed of your disk drive. I switched from an internal 7200 rpm Sata drive to a SSD drive and immediately noticed improvements in speed aspecially in loading the programs. Loading PSP X9 for first time went from at least 18 seconds to just under 8 because of the faster access to the drive.
I also have 8 Gb of RAM and the C drive is only about 60% full (1 TB drive) .
So increase RAM , use faster C drive for a start, and making sure the C drive is not close to full.
Finally of course which involves a lot more changes is to get a faster motherboard and processor.

I currently have 16GB of ram (I wrote 16MB, typo). That was my most recent upgrade from 4GB. I didn't notice any difference. I was considering a SSD, but they are still pricey. Maybe setup the SSD strictly for PSP as a secondary drive??