PHOTOSHOP CS2 and memory. can’t run the program!

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namemattersnot
Oct 15, 2005
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I have Athlon XP 2200 + 1GB RAM + 160GB HDD. Had no problems with PS CS but when I run PS CS2, my "available physical memory" looks like a countdown timer for a rocker launch: it goes from 800MB to 5MB in about 2 minutes, while the page file usage goes from couple of megs to 2GB and up..

What’s up with that? Photoshop idles yet eats all the memory. Any clue?

Thanks.

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iehsmith
Oct 15, 2005
On 10/15/05 12:27 PM, uttered:

Re,

I have Athlon XP 2200 + 1GB RAM + 160GB HDD. Had no problems with PS CS but when I run PS CS2, my "available physical memory" looks like a countdown timer for a rocker launch: it goes from 800MB to 5MB in about 2 minutes, while the page file usage goes from couple of megs to 2GB and up..

What’s up with that? Photoshop idles yet eats all the memory. Any clue?
Thanks.

Damn! I’m definitely sticking with my old PS 6 till I get a newer machine;)

Are your working drive and you scratch disk drive the same? Best to have a separate drive for scratch disk; but it sounds like you might have more going on since CS had worked OK.

Sorry I can’t be more help.

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Norm Dresner
Oct 15, 2005
On 10/15/05 12:27 PM, uttered:

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I have Athlon XP 2200 + 1GB RAM + 160GB HDD. Had no problems with PS CS but when I run PS CS2, my "available physical memory" looks like a countdown timer for a rocker launch: it goes from 800MB to 5MB in about 2 minutes, while the page file usage goes from couple of megs to 2GB and up..

What’s up with that? Photoshop idles yet eats all the memory. Any clue?
Thanks.

I’ve got a Dell (dual) 2 GHz XEON with 1 GM RAM and 80 + 120 GB HD in Win2000. When I start CS2, the available physical memory drops from ~750MB to ~690MB, a drop of about 60 MB and the page file usage increases by almost exactly an equal amount.

Must be something else going on in your system

Norm
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noone
Oct 16, 2005
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I have Athlon XP 2200 + 1GB RAM + 160GB HDD. Had no problems with PS CS but when I run PS CS2, my "available physical memory" looks like a countdown timer for a rocker launch: it goes from 800MB to 5MB in about 2 minutes, while the page file usage goes from couple of megs to 2GB and up..

What’s up with that? Photoshop idles yet eats all the memory. Any clue?
Thanks.

You might want to look in Edit>Preferences>Memory and see what % of memory you have allocated to PS, also look at the Cache state, History state, and do look at your Scratch Disk allocation. As has been stated, any physical disk, besides the boot disk is good, and a big, fast, empty physical HDD is better.

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Rudy Benner
Oct 16, 2005
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I have Athlon XP 2200 + 1GB RAM + 160GB HDD. Had no problems with PS CS but when I run PS CS2, my "available physical memory" looks like a countdown timer for a rocker launch: it goes from 800MB to 5MB in about 2 minutes, while the page file usage goes from couple of megs to 2GB and up..

What’s up with that? Photoshop idles yet eats all the memory. Any clue?
Thanks.

You might want to look in Edit>Preferences>Memory and see what % of memory you
have allocated to PS, also look at the Cache state, History state, and do look
at your Scratch Disk allocation. As has been stated, any physical disk, besides the boot disk is good, and a big, fast, empty physical HDD is better.

Hunt

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