Mikeh85 Posted February 14 Share Posted February 14 (edited) Hello forum 👋🏻 Ive been using paint.net on an old laptop to create water irrigation site plans and it’s time for an upgrade. With the plans i create in paint.net I can use anywhere up to 100 layers. After getting above 50 layers my trusty old laptop starts to lag and I need a computer that can handle that sort of demand easily. My question is, what computer spec should I be looking for to run paint.net smoothly with this level of demand? Any help is much appreciated. Edited February 14 by Mikeh85 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tactilis Posted February 14 Share Posted February 14 Welcome to the forum @Mikeh85 Your old laptop likely has insufficient RAM for the amount of memory that paint.net will require when you have so many layers, particularly if your image size (width x height) is also large. With insufficient RAM, Windows will have to swap out to disk and if you have a HDD (rather than an SSD), then that will be a slow operation. Paint.net has to write history data to disk for every edit, so that will be slow with a HDD too. If your CPU is old/underpowered, then that will hit performance. So you need a modern CPU, plenty of RAM and an SSD. A dedicated laptop graphics card, rather than integrated graphics will likely also improve performance depending on what you are doing when editing. There was a thread a couple of weeks ago from a user who also works with many layers. It's worth a read: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mikeh85 Posted February 14 Author Share Posted February 14 Perfect 👌 Thank you for the detailed response 🙏 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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