What make and model of laptop are you running if I may ask, there is often a bit of "power saving" bloatware that they install. I know that my laptop Asus 550JK comes with power management bloatware, that basically throttles the CPU, have to press FN + space to bring up the changer... edit: The changer lets me choose…
same experience here. photoshop does get slow after a while even on a well specced machine and with documents of moderate complexity. also keeps hanging on to memory long after you have closed files. i experience the GPU acceleration as a very mixed bag, too. i turn it down to basic and disable some options or else it will…
I'm also on windows 10, on a laptop with an older gtx 680M and have no issues at all. But the windows 10 release nvidia drivers were crap, maybe you can update these? It really sounds like your gpu is in some power saver mode or your system is using your intel gpu, in the nvidia configuration screen you can configure that…
didnt notice any difference with or without openGL, nor changing the scratch disk. kind of related; is my processor (Intel Core i7 2,60 ghz quadcore) to slow for high polycounts in zbrush? i cant go past 8 million polys without noticable lagg. i dont think the ram is the problem, 32 gb, and i read zbrush doesnt use the…
har thanks for the tip. the nvidia drivers have been a issue, conflicting with the intel drivers and causing BSOD, so yeah they might be a cause. heres somre progress though; i installed the photoshop cs5 and it runs a lot faster! very responsive and maybe 0.2 second delay when i switch the layers on and of, compared to…
i recently bought a new laptop, mainly for working, and went with 32 gb ram, going from 4 gb in my old one. the difference have been quite underwelming though. sure i can obouisly play games that i coulnt before, but working hasnt feelt that much different. mainly photoshop is almost the same. my workflow when texturing is…
On my mobile workstation, a Lenovo w520 with 16 GB and Quadro 2000 I unchecked almost every power saving functions, plus disable this Intel....what was it's name....Intel Optimus Harharhar ..... Optimus! Well, what is fine for Excel and Firefox is maybe a little bit....useless for us. Good luck, may you find something more…