On Jun 24, 2005, at 1:21 AM, Shel Belinkoff wrote:
You can us XP or Win2000 (Maybe even ME ... not 100% sure about
that). If
you're running into memory problems with CS, try reducing the
amount of
memory allocated to the program.
Thanks for the tip... it's currently set to 90% of available memory.
Note "available" rather than "total"... the actual amount depends on
what other apps are running. Currently PS reports free memory at
about 1.7Gb. Photoshop is sitting there doing nothing with no files
open, and it's using just over 600Mb. On startup it doesn't use
allocate anywhere near that much - that 600Mb is there from last
night when I opened a 350Mb tiff. It's only when I'm scanning that
it goes over 1Gb.
I know that seems counter-intuitive, but
you've got to save some memory for the OS and any other programs
that are
running.
I have 3Gb total. It would be 4 if the stuff wasn't so darn
expensive :)
Drop your PS allocation to 55% and see what happens. Also, you
may want to use Task Manager and MSCONFIG to get rid of unneeded
programs
and services that are running in the background. This page may be
of some
help: http://www.adobe.com/support/techdocs/318243.html
I'm on a Mac so this isn't particularly relevant to me. I do keep an
eye on the Activity Monitor (equivalent to the Task Manager) so I can
keep track of how much memory PS is using. There are certainly no
worries about anything consuming CPU cycles in the background.
One of the best things you can do to speed up PS is to use a
second, large,
fast hard drive for PS's scratch disk.
Already got one.
Cheers,
- Dave
http://www.digistar.com/~dmann/
