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[PhillDB]

After upgrading to PTE 10 I’ve noticed that some areas are running slower than with previous versions.
This is particularly noticeable in O&A when slide styles are used. The image takes a good few seconds longer to load when it contains a slide style.

I suspect that I may need to upgrade my PC (I could do with upgrading anyway) which will be helpful with other graphics programs such as Photoshop CC and Lightroom Classic CC, but I am not sure what specification to go for (I will self build if necessary).

Can anyone suggest a suitable specification in relation to mother board/processor/graphics card/memory etc?

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks.

Phill

[Igor]

Hi Phill,

Tell me what video card installed in your computer?

Even on relatively old PCs PTE 10 should work as fast as PTE 9.

Try a special mode in main menu > Settings > Preferences > System tab. Tick "Alternate renderer...". Click OK and restart PTE. If it doesn't help, untick this option as earlier.

Regarding a new computer.

Ideal desktop computer for PTE 10 and for several future versions:

• AMD Ryzen 5 or 7. Or Intel Core i7.
• 8+ GB of system memory.
• NVIDIA Geforce 1060, or 1650 with 3GB of more. I recommend Gigabyte WindForce model - it's noiseless for work in PTE.
• SSD drive where installed Windows 10.

This computer will offer exceeding power for any tasks in PTE 10.

I highly recommend NVIDIA graphics for best quality and speed for video encoding with "Hardware acceleration" option. Encoding works faster in 3-4 times.

[PhillDB]

Hi Igor

Thanks for your reply.

I have an Nvidia graphics card but it only has 1gb of memory. My pc is over 4 years old so is a bit out of date.

I will try your suggestion with ‘alternative render’ but I’ll probably build a new computer according to your suggested specification, as my present one has a lower specification than this.

Best wishes

Phill

[tom95521]

The new graphics cards are very powerful and if you have room for a second monitor PTE works great with full screen preview in one monitor and the editor in the other monitor.

Tom

[AlexRoma]

What do you think of a nvidia quadro (like the P620) for PTE?

[tom95521]

I have never used a workstation graphics card on my desktop computers but this is what I found searching.

The P620 is a lower power/lower bandwidth mobile GPU compared to desktop Geforce models. It's a Pascal based GPU with 2 GB of memory.

https://technical.city/en/video/GeForce-GTX-1060-vs-Quadro-P620

Performance close to Geforce GTX 1050
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nvidia_Quadro#Video_cards

It's important that a graphic card has NVENC h.264 hardware chip(s) for hardware accelerated video encoding (also most Intel CPUs have quick sync). Not all Nvidia Quadros have h.264 video encoder.

https://developer.nvidia.com/video-encode-decode-gpu-support-matrix

Tom

[AlexRoma]

Many thanks, Tom