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Hi,
I wanted to have a faster Photoshop so I got myself a new WIN XP Home machine with 4 GB RAM on the motherboard and a
3.0 GHz P4 CPU.
Now I wonder how should I configure this to make my
Photoshop7 as fast as possible?
XP recognizes 3,5 GB (Win2k only 2GB).
Photoshop7 uses up to 1,7 GB as a RAM working space.
You could assume that Win+Photoshop uses the first 2 GB RAM.
Is it the best idea now (and possible?) to try to put the reamining 2 GB into a ramdisk?
That is:
1. at startup create a 2 GB ramdisk.
2. Have this ramdisk set as primary scratch disk in
Photoshop7.
Will this have 1,7 GB in the RAM working space for Photoshop and an additional 2 GB, small but fast, primary scratch
disk?
(my concern is because I read somewhere that maybe a ramdisk in Windows only uses the bottom 2 (3,5?) GB and can not
allocate the top 2 (0,5) GB RAM??)
thanks,
Larry
I wanted to have a faster Photoshop so I got myself a new WIN XP Home machine with 4 GB RAM on the motherboard and a
3.0 GHz P4 CPU.
Now I wonder how should I configure this to make my
Photoshop7 as fast as possible?
XP recognizes 3,5 GB (Win2k only 2GB).
Photoshop7 uses up to 1,7 GB as a RAM working space.
You could assume that Win+Photoshop uses the first 2 GB RAM.
Is it the best idea now (and possible?) to try to put the reamining 2 GB into a ramdisk?
That is:
1. at startup create a 2 GB ramdisk.
2. Have this ramdisk set as primary scratch disk in
Photoshop7.
Will this have 1,7 GB in the RAM working space for Photoshop and an additional 2 GB, small but fast, primary scratch
disk?
(my concern is because I read somewhere that maybe a ramdisk in Windows only uses the bottom 2 (3,5?) GB and can not
allocate the top 2 (0,5) GB RAM??)
thanks,
Larry
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