Elements 11

[Kermit power]

Is it just me, or is it utter crap?

I upgraded from 8, and really, really wish I hadn't! The interface is horrible, and it keeps hanging, whereas 8 used to work flawlessly!

[CommanderJameson]

It's you. Flies for me on both OSX and Windows.

[paul911]

I use v11 too without problems!

[Kermit power]

Strange. My PC isn't particularly underpowered (2.8 Ghz quad core, 4 GB of memory running Windows 7, or thereabouts), but Elements runs like a dog and uses up all my processing power to the point where if I've got music playing at the same time, it breaks up whilst elements is saving images. It gives me "elements is not responding" for up to 5 minutes when saving images too.

I never had any of these problems with version 8, and the only thing I've changed on the setup is installing the new version of elements.

on earth they felt the need to make it such a depressing battleship grey screen is a completely different question!

[MartinP]

I'm not an Elements user, but am guessing that similar to full fat PS it has some Performance options in a Preferences menu. Could be worth checking the settings in there to see if you can make an improvement. Also memory is pretty cheap, another 4GB of ram should be a low cost means of giving your PC a boost, it would certainly make a difference for PS, so would be reasonable to assume the same for Elements.

[K12beano]

This ^^^ Have a look in the settings. Is it "scratch disk" you need to look for? Someone more technically capable will be along in a minute. But you need to check how much "space" and RAM you've permitted PSE to play with.

Edited by K12beano on Wednesday 10th July 09:48

[CommanderJameson]

K12beano said:

This ^^^ Have a look in the settings. Is it "scratch disk" you need to look for? Someone more technically capable will be along in a minute. But you need to check how much "space" and RAM you've permitted PSE to play with.

I haven't changed the defaults on mine (Windows 8 Pro 64-bit, 3.2GHz Ivy Bridge i5, 2GB GTX660, 8GB RAM, rotating disks) and it's fine.

ETA: operating system

Edited by CommanderJameson on Wednesday 10th July 11:53

[CommanderJameson]

Kermit power said:

on earth they felt the need to make it such a depressing battleship grey screen is a completely different question!

You should be looking at your pictures, not the furniture. Focus, man! Focus!

[K12beano]

Wonder if PSE 11 isn't liking Windoze 7 that Kermit's got then...

[DibblyDobbler]

I had PSE11 on an ok-ish spec laptop with Win7 and it was crap but I upgraded the laptop (and got Win8 into the bargain) and it's now ok...

[Kermit power]

DibblyDobbler said:

I had PSE11 on an ok-ish spec laptop with Win7 and it was crap but I upgraded the laptop (and got Win8 into the bargain) and it's now ok...

I'm staggered at the difference between 8 and 11 though. I wouldn't have expected this much difference for essentially the same task.

[DibblyDobbler]

Kermit power said:

DibblyDobbler said:

I had PSE11 on an ok-ish spec laptop with Win7 and it was crap but I upgraded the laptop (and got Win8 into the bargain) and it's now ok...

I'm staggered at the difference between 8 and 11 though. I wouldn't have expected this much difference for essentially the same task.

I think I went from 9 to 11 and had a similar experience. Get yourself a new laptop and you'll be fine

[flat-planedCrank]

Used it recently on an old laptop, seemed fast enough?

Tried reinstalling? Does it have any gpu accelerated features? might be worth disabling / updating drivers to see if that helps....

[Kermit power]

flat-planedCrank said:

Used it recently on an old laptop, seemed fast enough?

Tried reinstalling? Does it have any gpu accelerated features? might be worth disabling / updating drivers to see if that helps....

It's not on a laptop. It's on a desktop with an upgraded graphics card.

[flat-planedCrank]

Kermit power said:

It's not on a laptop. It's on a desktop with an upgraded graphics card.

I just meant that if there are GPU accelerated features then it may be worth trying disabling them / updating drivers to see if that stops the instability

[IATM]

your problem is windows 7 and your 4gb ram. 4gb ram sounds a lot but it really isnt when it comes to windows vista/7. I have it so that 3-4gb is just for everyday use for windows and browsing etc and I have another 4bg for everything else when its required.