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Ever since I installed another stick of 512 MB RAM to make me have 1 Gig RAM Photoshop 3 will not start. Error message says, "There is not enough memory (RAM) to launch Photoshop." I’m sure the 1 gig RAM is freaking out Photoshop
3. Does anyone know of a work around or fix?
Sincerely,
Injam
Many older image programs were designed to work with up to 512MB RAM – Painter (prior to v 5, I think), 3-D Painter, and many other similar programs. Unfortunately, with OVER 512MB, they can’t calculate the RAM and throw that message. As it’s been many years since I had PS 3 on my machines, I did not know that it had that limit, but then I only had 512 in its day. I had to build a machine with only 512MB to run some of those older apps, even though it had a 3.2GHz processor and big RAID 0 disks. As I have not had much call for work from those apps, I’ll probably flesh it out soon with 2GB and just delete those old programs. I tried every work-around I could think of to get the OS to fool the app into thinkning I only had 512 and never found a way. I kept MS ME as the OS, as Win2K & XP wouldn’t run some of them, even though they seem to do a better job with legacy apps, than did earlier OSs. These old guys were just happy with certain configs, and NOT with others.
I’d suggest taking the upgrade path through Adobe, or a re-seller, as MUCH has happened in PS, since 3.0.1. You might have to call Adobe to get the upgrade to install, but they’re very helpful when making an upgrade from a much earlier ver of their programs. Five minutes on the phone, and it’s all done – usually.
Hunt
