PS works slowly !?

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Yammaski
Sep 25, 2005
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Hi,

I bought and installed CS2, but it seems that photoshop
often works very slowly.

RAM : 768 Mb
Scratchdisk are ok
Clockspeed : 1,33 Gh
Memory in use by photoshop : 60% = +/- 400 Mb
Win XP Pro

Has somebody an explenation for this ?

Thanks,
Yammaski.

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Basileus
Jul 9, 2006
Yammaski wrote:
Hi,

I bought and installed CS2, but it seems that photoshop
often works very slowly.

RAM : 768 Mb
Scratchdisk are ok
Clockspeed : 1,33 Gh
Memory in use by photoshop : 60% = +/- 400 Mb
Win XP Pro

Has somebody an explenation for this ?

Thanks,
Yammaski.
the 1.33ghz processor is a start. On top of that what do you mean when you say the scratch disks are ok? If you have multiple physical drives in your computer (different partitions on the same physical disk aren’t going to make a lick of difference) make sure that the primary scratch disk that photoshop is using is not the same drive that windows is using for virtual memory. Also make sure you’re killing all the stupid fancy crap that xp likes to do. right click on your my computer icon, and pick properties. Hit the ‘advanced’ tab then hit the settings button under performance. then either manually deselect everything or just hit ‘adjust for best performance’. Yeah, you lose the pretty blue or green or whatever xp theme stuff and the animated menus and the shadows ‘n junk, but that’s not really what’s important. Check these few things and it should help a bit. I’ve got the 768mb of ram thing going too, and only a 2.19ghz machine and photoshop runs just fine for me. Then again I’ve killed all the extra rot that xp does and try to run as few background apps as possible. (the fewer things hiding down next to your clock on the task bar, the better). another memory hog would be those web content things people like to use sometimes. The stock tickers on the desktop, crap like that. If you’re using them, get rid of them.

Hope this helps.

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