PS6 Started Running So Slooooooooooooow.

Hi,

I use PS6 with an Athlon 2400XP with 512MB Ram.

For the last year or so Photoshop has been running fine. Even working on 150MB+ PSD’s performance was still acceptable.

Last week Photoshop almost ground to a halt. It still starts up in the same period of time but every operation (no matter how small) takes ages to complete.

Here is an example:
Start up Photoshop = 13secs
Open a new image (300px x 300px, 72dpi, RGB, white background) = 7secs Insert a black unconstrained rectangle = 9secs.

In between all of these actions all of the menus and toolbars go blank and Photoshop seems to crash/freeze.

Does anyone have any idea why Photoshop is behaving like this? All other progams on my system are working fine.

I’ve tried a complete un-install the re-installation of Photoshop but the exact same problems are apparent.

The only change to my system I have made is installing Frontpage 2003 (which ran alongside Frontpage 2002). I have since deleted Frontpage 2003 to see if it improved performance… but it didn’t :o(

Any advice would be very much appreciated. I’ve got a couple of jobs coming up and I really can’t live with how PS is working.

Thanks in advance,

Sonars UK

In article <FLlqd.91$>,

says…

Hi,

I use PS6 with an Athlon 2400XP with 512MB Ram.

For the last year or so Photoshop has been running fine. Even working on 150MB+ PSD’s performance was still acceptable.

Last week Photoshop almost ground to a halt. It still starts up in the same
period of time but every operation (no matter how small) takes ages to complete.

Here is an example:
Start up Photoshop = 13secs
Open a new image (300px x 300px, 72dpi, RGB, white background) = 7secs Insert a black unconstrained rectangle = 9secs.

In between all of these actions all of the menus and toolbars go blank and Photoshop seems to crash/freeze.

Does anyone have any idea why Photoshop is behaving like this? All other progams on my system are working fine.

I’ve tried a complete un-install the re-installation of Photoshop but the exact same problems are apparent.

The only change to my system I have made is installing Frontpage 2003 (which
ran alongside Frontpage 2002). I have since deleted Frontpage 2003 to see if it improved performance… but it didn’t :o(

Any advice would be very much appreciated. I’ve got a couple of jobs coming
up and I really can’t live with how PS is working.

Thanks in advance,

Sonars UK

Thoughts only:
1.) RAM is a bit light, but that’s what I am currently running on laptop with
CS, and it’s quite quick.
2.) Plug-ins – did you add a bunch lately. They can slow down PS, primarily on
load
3.) Scratch Disk(s) – do you have enough? Are they on separate physical drive,
than OS and PS? Are they recently de-fraged? Usually, you’ll get error messages, before you get the actual problem – PS is good that way.
4.) Fonts – these can slow PS, again mostly on load. Did you end up with
tons
of new ones from FP03, that are still on machine?
5.) How about your OS’s virtual memory allocations? Everything OK there?
As I said, just thoughts,
Hunt

"Hunt" wrote in message

In article <FLlqd.91$>,

says…

Hi,

I use PS6 with an Athlon 2400XP with 512MB Ram.

For the last year or so Photoshop has been running fine. Even working on 150MB+ PSD’s performance was still acceptable.

Last week Photoshop almost ground to a halt. It still starts up in the same
period of time but every operation (no matter how small) takes ages to complete.

Here is an example:
Start up Photoshop = 13secs
Open a new image (300px x 300px, 72dpi, RGB, white background) = 7secs Insert a black unconstrained rectangle = 9secs.

In between all of these actions all of the menus and toolbars go blank and Photoshop seems to crash/freeze.

Does anyone have any idea why Photoshop is behaving like this? All other progams on my system are working fine.

I’ve tried a complete un-install the re-installation of Photoshop but the exact same problems are apparent.

The only change to my system I have made is installing Frontpage 2003 (which
ran alongside Frontpage 2002). I have since deleted Frontpage 2003 to see if it improved performance… but it didn’t :o(

Any advice would be very much appreciated. I’ve got a couple of jobs coming
up and I really can’t live with how PS is working.

Thanks in advance,

Sonars UK

Thoughts only:
1.) RAM is a bit light, but that’s what I am currently running on laptop with
CS, and it’s quite quick.
2.) Plug-ins – did you add a bunch lately. They can slow down PS, primarily on
load
3.) Scratch Disk(s) – do you have enough? Are they on separate physical drive,
than OS and PS? Are they recently de-fraged? Usually, you’ll get error messages, before you get the actual problem – PS is good that way.
4.) Fonts – these can slow PS, again mostly on load. Did you end up with
tons
of new ones from FP03, that are still on machine?
5.) How about your OS’s virtual memory allocations? Everything OK there?
As I said, just thoughts,
Hunt

Thanks for your thoughts Hunt.

1. I agree that the RAM is perhaps a little light. But it seemed adequate last week before the problems.

2. I’ve not added any plug ins lately.

3. I’ll have to research Scratch Disks further. I’ve only got one hard drive on my system so I changed all of the settings to drive C. I still didn’t see any improvements though. I did defrag drive C a few weeks ago but the problems I am experiencing started a couple of weeks after defragging – so I don’t think there is a connection.

4. Fonts. I don’t think that FP left any fonts behind. For info, I’ve got just over 300 font files on my system.

5. Virtual memory settings seem fine.

Thanks for replying to my post. I’m still at first base though.

Sonars_UK wrote:

"Hunt" wrote in message

In article <FLlqd.91$>,

says…

Hi,

I use PS6 with an Athlon 2400XP with 512MB Ram.

For the last year or so Photoshop has been running fine. Even working on
150MB+ PSD’s performance was still acceptable.

Last week Photoshop almost ground to a halt. It still starts up in the same
period of time but every operation (no matter how small) takes ages to complete.

Here is an example:
Start up Photoshop = 13secs
Open a new image (300px x 300px, 72dpi, RGB, white background) = 7secs Insert a black unconstrained rectangle = 9secs.

In between all of these actions all of the menus and toolbars go blank and
Photoshop seems to crash/freeze.

Does anyone have any idea why Photoshop is behaving like this? All other
progams on my system are working fine.

I’ve tried a complete un-install the re-installation of Photoshop but the
exact same problems are apparent.

The only change to my system I have made is installing Frontpage 2003 (which
ran alongside Frontpage 2002). I have since deleted Frontpage 2003 to see
if it improved performance… but it didn’t :o(

Any advice would be very much appreciated. I’ve got a couple of jobs coming
up and I really can’t live with how PS is working.

Thanks in advance,

Sonars UK

Thoughts only:
1.) RAM is a bit light, but that’s what I am currently running on laptop
with
CS, and it’s quite quick.
2.) Plug-ins – did you add a bunch lately. They can slow down PS, primarily on
load
3.) Scratch Disk(s) – do you have enough? Are they on separate physical drive,
than OS and PS? Are they recently de-fraged? Usually, you’ll get error messages, before you get the actual problem – PS is good that way.
4.) Fonts – these can slow PS, again mostly on load. Did you end up
with
tons
of new ones from FP03, that are still on machine?
5.) How about your OS’s virtual memory allocations? Everything OK there?

As I said, just thoughts,
Hunt

Thanks for your thoughts Hunt.

1. I agree that the RAM is perhaps a little light. But it seemed adequate
last week before the problems.

2. I’ve not added any plug ins lately.

3. I’ll have to research Scratch Disks further. I’ve only got one hard drive on my system so I changed all of the settings to drive C. I still didn’t see any improvements though. I did defrag drive C a few weeks ago but the problems I am experiencing started a couple of weeks after defragging – so I don’t think there is a connection.

4. Fonts. I don’t think that FP left any fonts behind. For info, I’ve got
just over 300 font files on my system.

5. Virtual memory settings seem fine.

Thanks for replying to my post. I’m still at first base though.

As you have reinstalled Photoshop, have you checked what other applications are running, taking up memory or cpu time?

Depending on which version of Windows you’re using, there are various tools you can use.

Spyware, Html/Java, even Microsoft Access can slow your
system down.

"boom" wrote in message

Sonars_UK wrote:

"Hunt" wrote in message

In article <FLlqd.91$>,

says…

Hi,

I use PS6 with an Athlon 2400XP with 512MB Ram.

For the last year or so Photoshop has been running fine. Even working on
150MB+ PSD’s performance was still acceptable.

Last week Photoshop almost ground to a halt. It still starts up in the same
period of time but every operation (no matter how small) takes ages to complete.

Here is an example:
Start up Photoshop = 13secs
Open a new image (300px x 300px, 72dpi, RGB, white background) = 7secs Insert a black unconstrained rectangle = 9secs.

In between all of these actions all of the menus and toolbars go blank and
Photoshop seems to crash/freeze.

Does anyone have any idea why Photoshop is behaving like this? All other
progams on my system are working fine.

I’ve tried a complete un-install the re-installation of Photoshop but the
exact same problems are apparent.

The only change to my system I have made is installing Frontpage 2003 (which
ran alongside Frontpage 2002). I have since deleted Frontpage 2003 to see
if it improved performance… but it didn’t :o(

Any advice would be very much appreciated. I’ve got a couple of jobs coming
up and I really can’t live with how PS is working.

Thanks in advance,

Sonars UK

Thoughts only:
1.) RAM is a bit light, but that’s what I am currently running on laptop
with
CS, and it’s quite quick.
2.) Plug-ins – did you add a bunch lately. They can slow down PS, primarily on
load
3.) Scratch Disk(s) – do you have enough? Are they on separate physical drive,
than OS and PS? Are they recently de-fraged? Usually, you’ll get error messages, before you get the actual problem – PS is good that way.
4.) Fonts – these can slow PS, again mostly on load. Did you end up
with
tons
of new ones from FP03, that are still on machine?
5.) How about your OS’s virtual memory allocations? Everything OK there?

As I said, just thoughts,
Hunt

Thanks for your thoughts Hunt.

1. I agree that the RAM is perhaps a little light. But it seemed adequate
last week before the problems.

2. I’ve not added any plug ins lately.

3. I’ll have to research Scratch Disks further. I’ve only got one hard drive on my system so I changed all of the settings to drive C. I still didn’t see any improvements though. I did defrag drive C a few weeks ago but the problems I am experiencing started a couple of weeks after defragging – so I don’t think there is a connection.

4. Fonts. I don’t think that FP left any fonts behind. For info, I’ve got
just over 300 font files on my system.

5. Virtual memory settings seem fine.

Thanks for replying to my post. I’m still at first base though.

As you have reinstalled Photoshop, have you checked what other applications are running, taking up memory or cpu time?

Depending on which version of Windows you’re using, there are various tools you can use.

Spyware, Html/Java, even Microsoft Access can slow your
system down.

Hi Boom,

Thanks for the input. Still no improvement in Photoshop though.
I opened up Windows Task Manager and I have one application running (Photoshop) and 48 processes running. 48 seems high to me but I don’t know. I also disabled everything that was in my system tray.

I opened up Photoshop (which had a quick burst of 98% cpu usage then it settlde down). Then I opened a new image as before which still took around 7secs, also whilst Photoshop was froze when I was waiting for the new image to open the cpu usage never went above 40% and the Physical Memory usage never really wavered (Total: 523760 Available: 277204 System Cache: 244288).

"boom" wrote in message

Sonars_UK wrote:

"Hunt" wrote in message

In article <FLlqd.91$>,

says…

Hi,

I use PS6 with an Athlon 2400XP with 512MB Ram.

For the last year or so Photoshop has been running fine. Even

on
150MB+ PSD’s performance was still acceptable.

Last week Photoshop almost ground to a halt. It still starts up in

same
period of time but every operation (no matter how small) takes ages

complete.

Here is an example:
Start up Photoshop = 13secs
Open a new image (300px x 300px, 72dpi, RGB, white background) =

Insert a black unconstrained rectangle = 9secs.

In between all of these actions all of the menus and toolbars go

and
Photoshop seems to crash/freeze.

Does anyone have any idea why Photoshop is behaving like this? All other
progams on my system are working fine.

I’ve tried a complete un-install the re-installation of Photoshop

the
exact same problems are apparent.

The only change to my system I have made is installing Frontpage

(which
ran alongside Frontpage 2002). I have since deleted Frontpage 2003

see
if it improved performance… but it didn’t :o(

Any advice would be very much appreciated. I’ve got a couple of

coming
up and I really can’t live with how PS is working.

Thanks in advance,

Sonars UK

Thoughts only:
1.) RAM is a bit light, but that’s what I am currently running on laptop
with
CS, and it’s quite quick.
2.) Plug-ins – did you add a bunch lately. They can slow down PS, primarily on
load
3.) Scratch Disk(s) – do you have enough? Are they on separate

drive,
than OS and PS? Are they recently de-fraged? Usually, you’ll get

messages, before you get the actual problem – PS is good that way.
4.) Fonts – these can slow PS, again mostly on load. Did you end up
with
tons
of new ones from FP03, that are still on machine?
5.) How about your OS’s virtual memory allocations? Everything OK there?

As I said, just thoughts,
Hunt

Thanks for your thoughts Hunt.

1. I agree that the RAM is perhaps a little light. But it seemed adequate
last week before the problems.

2. I’ve not added any plug ins lately.

3. I’ll have to research Scratch Disks further. I’ve only got one

drive on my system so I changed all of the settings to drive C. I

didn’t see any improvements though. I did defrag drive C a few weeks

but the problems I am experiencing started a couple of weeks after defragging – so I don’t think there is a connection.

4. Fonts. I don’t think that FP left any fonts behind. For info,

got
just over 300 font files on my system.

5. Virtual memory settings seem fine.

Thanks for replying to my post. I’m still at first base though.

As you have reinstalled Photoshop, have you checked what other applications are running, taking up memory or cpu time?

Depending on which version of Windows you’re using, there are various tools you can use.

Spyware, Html/Java, even Microsoft Access can slow your
system down.

Hi Boom,

Thanks for the input. Still no improvement in Photoshop though.
I opened up Windows Task Manager and I have one application running (Photoshop) and 48 processes running. 48 seems high to me but I don’t

I also disabled everything that was in my system tray.

I opened up Photoshop (which had a quick burst of 98% cpu usage then it settlde down). Then I opened a new image as before which still took

7secs, also whilst Photoshop was froze when I was waiting for the new

to open the cpu usage never went above 40% and the Physical Memory usage never really wavered (Total: 523760 Available: 277204 System Cache: 244288).

Any other advice would be appreciated.

Regards,

Sonars UK

Sonars_UK wrote:

"boom" wrote in message

Sonars_UK wrote:

"Hunt" wrote in message

In article <FLlqd.91$>,

says…

Hi,

I use PS6 with an Athlon 2400XP with 512MB Ram.

For the last year or so Photoshop has been running fine. Even working
on
150MB+ PSD’s performance was still acceptable.

Last week Photoshop almost ground to a halt. It still starts up in the
same
period of time but every operation (no matter how small) takes ages to
complete.

Here is an example:
Start up Photoshop = 13secs
Open a new image (300px x 300px, 72dpi, RGB, white background) = 7secs
Insert a black unconstrained rectangle = 9secs.

In between all of these actions all of the menus and toolbars go blank
and
Photoshop seems to crash/freeze.

Does anyone have any idea why Photoshop is behaving like this? All other
progams on my system are working fine.

I’ve tried a complete un-install the re-installation of Photoshop but
the
exact same problems are apparent.

The only change to my system I have made is installing Frontpage 2003
(which
ran alongside Frontpage 2002). I have since deleted Frontpage 2003 to
see
if it improved performance… but it didn’t :o(

Any advice would be very much appreciated. I’ve got a couple of jobs
coming
up and I really can’t live with how PS is working.

Thanks in advance,

Sonars UK

Thoughts only:
1.) RAM is a bit light, but that’s what I am currently running on laptop
with
CS, and it’s quite quick.
2.) Plug-ins – did you add a bunch lately. They can slow down PS, primarily on
load
3.) Scratch Disk(s) – do you have enough? Are they on separate physical
drive,
than OS and PS? Are they recently de-fraged? Usually, you’ll get error
messages, before you get the actual problem – PS is good that way.
4.) Fonts – these can slow PS, again mostly on load. Did you end up
with
tons
of new ones from FP03, that are still on machine?
5.) How about your OS’s virtual memory allocations? Everything OK there?

As I said, just thoughts,
Hunt

Thanks for your thoughts Hunt.

1. I agree that the RAM is perhaps a little light. But it seemed adequate
last week before the problems.

2. I’ve not added any plug ins lately.

3. I’ll have to research Scratch Disks further. I’ve only got one hard
drive on my system so I changed all of the settings to drive C. I still
didn’t see any improvements though. I did defrag drive C a few weeks ago
but the problems I am experiencing started a couple of weeks after defragging – so I don’t think there is a connection.

4. Fonts. I don’t think that FP left any fonts behind. For info, I’ve
got
just over 300 font files on my system.

5. Virtual memory settings seem fine.

Thanks for replying to my post. I’m still at first base though.

As you have reinstalled Photoshop, have you checked what other applications are running, taking up memory or cpu time?

Depending on which version of Windows you’re using, there are various tools you can use.

Spyware, Html/Java, even Microsoft Access can slow your
system down.

Hi Boom,

Thanks for the input. Still no improvement in Photoshop though.
I opened up Windows Task Manager and I have one application running (Photoshop) and 48 processes running. 48 seems high to me but I don’t know.
I also disabled everything that was in my system tray.

I opened up Photoshop (which had a quick burst of 98% cpu usage then it settlde down). Then I opened a new image as before which still took around
7secs, also whilst Photoshop was froze when I was waiting for the new image
to open the cpu usage never went above 40% and the Physical Memory usage never really wavered (Total: 523760 Available: 277204 System Cache: 244288).

Do you have a backup of your system before you installed Frontpage?

Any advice would be very much appreciated. I’ve got a couple of jobs coming up and I really can’t live with how PS is working.

Thanks in advance,

On Sun, 28 Nov 2004 15:01:57 GMT, "Sonars_UK"
<sonars_uk@(remove)hotmail.com> wrote:

Any advice would be very much appreciated. I’ve got a couple of jobs coming
up and I really can’t live with how PS is working.

Thanks in advance,

1. Make sure you haven’t got a corrupted font.
2. Trash preferences – uninstalling and reinstalling will *not* do this (lousy uninstall routine will not clean up after itself properly).

If it’s still happening ask again.

—

Hecate – The Real One

veni, vidi, reliqui

As you have reinstalled Photoshop, have you checked what other applications are running, taking up memory or cpu time?

Depending on which version of Windows you’re using, there are various tools you can use.

On Sun, 28 Nov 2004 19:10:00 GMT, boom wrote:

As you have reinstalled Photoshop, have you checked what other applications are running, taking up memory or cpu time?

Depending on which version of Windows you’re using, there are various tools you can use.

Sometimes anti-virus programs can do this running in the background.