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Hi,
I was having no problems like this with PS 7 on the same machine. I recently installed CS a couple of weeks ago and the problem seems to be occuring more frequently.
After working on an image, sometimes for not even a very long time, say 10 minutes or so, Photoshop will just sit there doing nothing, and accepting no more input. When this happens the screen frequently isn’t repainted if I move another window over it. PS will stay like this sometimes for 5 or 10 minutes before recovering and allowing me to work again for a little while. My images aren’t especially large, they start out as 9 meg .NEF files. I prefer working in 16bit mode, but that seems to make PS even more likely to hang.
When PS is stuck like this the CPU utilization remains at something normal like <5%. But PS’s memory usage does seem to be high for a 9meg file. It always has well above 100megs ram allocated. So when PS is stuck I can go use the computer for everything else just fine.
My machine is about a year old Pentium 4 running at 1.4Ghz. 640 megs of RAM
Windows XP
Currently with about 2GB of free disk space. Though I only have one disk drive in the machine.
Any help would really be appreciated.
Thanks, Derek
I was having no problems like this with PS 7 on the same machine. I recently installed CS a couple of weeks ago and the problem seems to be occuring more frequently.
After working on an image, sometimes for not even a very long time, say 10 minutes or so, Photoshop will just sit there doing nothing, and accepting no more input. When this happens the screen frequently isn’t repainted if I move another window over it. PS will stay like this sometimes for 5 or 10 minutes before recovering and allowing me to work again for a little while. My images aren’t especially large, they start out as 9 meg .NEF files. I prefer working in 16bit mode, but that seems to make PS even more likely to hang.
When PS is stuck like this the CPU utilization remains at something normal like <5%. But PS’s memory usage does seem to be high for a 9meg file. It always has well above 100megs ram allocated. So when PS is stuck I can go use the computer for everything else just fine.
My machine is about a year old Pentium 4 running at 1.4Ghz. 640 megs of RAM
Windows XP
Currently with about 2GB of free disk space. Though I only have one disk drive in the machine.
Any help would really be appreciated.
Thanks, Derek
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