drsilver wrote in post #19321614
I ran LR for a while with the built-in display adapter on a Dell XPS 8940. I put a bunch of RAM in first thing, but didn't get a graphics card until later. And even then it was only because a few features in LR - like drag-to-zoom - require a dedicated graphics card. I went on Ebay and bought the cheapest used one I could find that met Adobe's minimum specs. I don't think I even use the LR features I bought it for, but it seems to have helped a little bit, generally, and I don't regret putting it in.
I think I paid around $800 for the desktop with an i5-10400 processor + 512 SSD and around $60 for the card.
System Display Adapter - Intel UHD Graphics 630
PCIe Display Adapter - NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050
Yes, good call.
It can be done if you know what you are doing.
But OP does say that 'not into' computers.
I use a lot of other products (various Topaz, JixiPix, Affinity Photo, Affinity Designer) and found my 1050 Ti 4GB card wanting.
Was getting artifacts on the image, and slow rendering.
The RTX 2060 Super has sorted all that out.
I didn't see the OP's $$ limit while I was checking out the price of a decent modern computer.
Plus, I like things to happen quickly, and waiting for (say) 5 minutes for a single image to render is too slow for me.
I don't use Lightroom now. Just use the generic Canon DPP4. Still have my old LR copy but haven't bothered installing it.
Most of my photos are now landscapes, and usually deep inside the NZ bush.
I haven't found the need for LR now.
The other problem seems to be that OP uses PS2022. Maybe a change to Affinity Photo might help with that old machine?