For hardware factors: add RAM, upgrade GPU, use SSD drives, upgrade to computer with faster CPU. Defragmenting a spinning hard drive sometimes helps a little. Freeing up disk space helps in more limited circumstances such as when writing to scratch disk is being limited by space.
Fortunately, there are many preference settings that can improve performance without extra hardware costs (see this article) for multiple examples (other resources pop up via search engine with most of the same suggestions).
I also find that closing almost all other programs (browsers, email, ...) can help at times. |
