PS CS Seems very slow

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phil_vouers
Nov 17, 2003
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My system is a win xp, 2 ghz processor 120ghd 512meg ram

PS7 use to fly by so fast I had to check the history to make sure the action went but cs seem to get into a crawl state rather fast. My eff % has been dropping to 6 to 8%
I partitioned my hard drive and kept a partition for photoshop as a scratch disk but that sure didn’t help, I then set up a 80g external hard drive and made that the scratch.. still no big difference.

I could go to 750 meg ram easily and to 1 gig only if necessary for I have one of those computers that only has 2 slots and both are taken with 256meg cards so I need to throw one out everytime I upgrade.

Thanks
Phil
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Grass_Hopper
Nov 17, 2003
phil,

have you tried playing with the percentage of RAM usage by PS? Move the value up or down the scale and see if that helps the speed.
PV
phil_vouers
Nov 17, 2003
I have tried increasing it from its 50% default but that doesn’t seem to help.. maybe a minute amout. I’ll try below 50% and see what happens. It does seem to work a litle faster if I make the scratch dish startup which is my c drive.
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Scott_Byer
Nov 17, 2003
A good thing to do is bring up Task Manager, go to the Performance page, and watch the Physical Memory box while running Photoshop. If the Available amount goes below 15,000 (15MB), then you will need to reduce the Photoshop memory percentage.

-Scott
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dave_milbut
Nov 19, 2003
news reader bump. more great advice.

scott, does your NR delay sending? I always find these gems from you on like page 2 or 3 of the forum!

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Scott_Byer
Nov 19, 2003
No, it sends immediately, but the NR interface to the actual forums software may be a touch slow. Also realize that I can’t spend all day here, so only get to the forums once a day or so (which is part of the reason I use the NR – I can go through a lot more messages a lot faster that way).

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