Is my PC quick enough for my photo software
Modern photo processing software, including RAW conversion and the many filter type packages, can use a lot of computer resources . To make matters worse AI processing is increasingly being used for things like mask selection and this is demanding on processor capacity, often being pushed from the CPU onto a dedicated GPU. Usually the required computer specification for a given piece of software is provided in minimum and recommended variants and performance can be decidedly poor at the minimum end of things. This can give rise to questions such as "is my machine good enough" and if not then "what should I upgrade to make it better". Example specs for DXO PhotoLab 9 The good news is there are tools to check performance that we can easily run to help see potential bottlenecks, taking some of the guesswork out of it. In a windows environment (Windows 11 or older editions) we can run Task Manager . To do this you can use the keyboard shortcut Ctrl + Shift + Esc, or r...