Photoshop performance difficulties! Help?

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Dulan_de_Laal
Jul 25, 2004
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Currently, I am having difficulties with Photoshop 7.0.

Whenever a blur tool is used, it lags the system severely – as in, it takes several seconds after the tool has been dragged to successfully blur. This happens no matter how large or small the image is, and with or without virtual memory.

System specs:

Athlon XP 3200+ (512kb cache, 2.2ghz)
1.5GB Kingston HyperX Ram
Dedicated scratch disk (7200 rpm, 8mb cache)
120gb 7200rpm 8mb cache main drive
nForce2 Albatron KX18D Pro II motherboard

The hdds are on dedicated channels, shared with no other devices. Photoshop is set to use 75% of ram. Already performed Adobe’s performance optimization suggestions, and a few of my own – overclocking, tweaking windows for minimal resource use, etc..

Anyone have any suggestions, at all, on what the problems could be? I am completely stumped, as nothing I have tried seems to successfully significantly increase or decrease the lag/slowness associated with the smudge tool.
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Rob_Keijzer
Jul 25, 2004
Try lowering the memory usage slider to 50%. It might be that you’re choking the O/S.

Check for other apps in the back. (seti at home?)

Rob
DD
Dulan_de_Laal
Jul 25, 2004
No apps in the background, and the only services running under the WinXP are the minimal required for XP to run.

Photoshop still had this problem at 50% – I’ll try lowering it to 25%. Thanks for the idea :).
DM
dave_milbut
Jul 25, 2004
try resetting the prefrences. it’s fixed weirder things than that.
DD
Dulan_de_Laal
Jul 26, 2004
Resetting the preferences did not help….
DM
dave_milbut
Jul 26, 2004
video drivers? turn off hardware acceleration temporarily to see if that fixes it. if so then update the drivers. (control panel> display> settings> advanced)
DD
Dulan_de_Laal
Jul 26, 2004
Latest video drivers as released from ATI.

ATI Radeon 9600Pro is the vid card, if that helps?
DM
dave_milbut
Jul 26, 2004
have you tried reinstalling it? and when you reset the prefrences did you actually delete the file or did you get the dialog asking you "reset photoshop settings? (yes|no)"
DD
Dulan_de_Laal
Jul 26, 2004
Nope on the reinstall of video drivers.

Preferences, Dialog. I’ll go in and manually delete them.
B
BobLevine
Jul 26, 2004
You say you’ve reinstalled the drivers, but have you tried turning hardware acceleration down to zero as Dave suggested.

There have been cases where new drivers have been the culprit and the old drivers have cured the problem. But you need to turn acceleration down to zero as the diagnostic.

Bob
DM
dave_milbut
Jul 26, 2004
no i meant to try reinsalling photoshop.

have you checked for spyware/viruses?

have you run a defrag or system cleanup recently?
DD
Dulan_de_Laal
Jul 26, 2004
Spyware/viruses – Nonexistant, just checked.
Defrag – Just ran it before I posted, to check if that was the problem. It wasn’t.
DM
dave_milbut
Jul 26, 2004
try reinstalling photoshop.

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