cs3 performance query

I have a very fast dual core machine and gobs of ram.
Applying certain filters, and particularly HDR. just takes time. And the larger your image files the longer it takes.
You have probably maxed out the performance of your system. Adding more ram and changes in the configuration of your swap/scratch disks will not make any substantial improvement.
A dual core machine will improve processing speeds for some operations, but what you can measure in terms of faster processing time may not be perceivable for practical uses.
However if you absolutely need faster processing you will have to upgrade to a dual core machine, but do not use Vista (slower, has color management problems, may not have drivers for your printer/scanner).

Paul:

I am going through the same frustrations you are. I just upgrade a couple of weeks ago to Adobe’s Creative Suite CS3 and have never experienced so many problems with one single upgrade. In fact both CS and CS2 gave me no problems when they were installed. Apparently the merger with Macromedia hasn’t done much good to Adobe.

Despite the fact that Adobe’s hardware requirement to run the new CS3 shold allow it to run well in a wide range of different machines, I have been having problems (primarily with Bridge CS3) running on my PowerMac G5 dual processor which is only slightly more than 2 years old.

I have found that, above all things, the video card requirements to run Photoshop CS3 with both Bridge and ACR are a lot more stringent than Adobe claims (including the hardwire requirements it erroneously and untruthfully has printed on the back of the software package). To run this programs you really need to have a reasonably powerful graphics card. Mine has only 64 MB of VRAM and I have been told by some Adobe tech support people that you need to have a minimum of 128 MB while it would really be advisable to have 256 MB (or even 512 Mb if you can).

Take a look at your video card as it may very well be what the bottleneck in your system just as it is mine.

Best regards,

Joseph Chamberlain

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On 6/28/07 3:49 AM, in article
46839232$0$14986$, "Paul Burdett"
wrote:

Hi all,

I recently purchased CS3 Extended after having used CS2 for quite a while. Up until yesterday my system was p4, 3.0 GHz, win xp pro,1 Gig ram, single hard drive with 117 Gig free space. Cs3 initially runs well but ocassionally slows down when processing files. When selecting the liquify filter the image is shown in stages instead of appearing instantly (redraw issue I guess?) Anyhow…today I had an extra gig of ram put in as well as a second hard drive (320GB). It seems to run faster initially, but again, seems to be no faster during editing. In the scratch disk preference I have the new drive ("F") listed first, above the "C" drive, and both checked. Is that correct? I have the cache set to 6 and allocated 70% of ram to photoshop as per the suggestions in the help files.
I’ve checked msconfig/startup and there’s not much running in the background. I feel that CS3 should be a little faster than it is. I did a "merge to hdr" with 6 images and it took quite a while, although I did have "attempt to align" checked…a little faster without it checked. Any suggestions appreciated.
Cheers,
Paul

Hi Joseph,
Thank you for replying. I have the P4P800-MX motherboard, which has "Intel Extreme Graphics 2" (onboard)…32Mb. CS3 actually runs fine, I just expected that the extra ram would make a difference, but I’ve been told that a duel processor would be what I need. My file sizes are not that big…but some plugins and merge to hdr take time..I guess I’m a bit impatient! (lol). Anyhow…good luck with your "frustrations".

Paul

P.S. I feel sorry for those who paid full price for CS3…I got mine cheaper, as I am a school teacher (at least Adobe did that right)

"Joseph Chamberlain, D.D.S." wrote in message

Paul:

I am going through the same frustrations you are. I just upgrade a couple of
weeks ago to Adobe’s Creative Suite CS3 and have never experienced so many problems with one single upgrade. In fact both CS and CS2 gave me no problems when they were installed. Apparently the merger with Macromedia hasn’t done much good to Adobe.

Despite the fact that Adobe’s hardware requirement to run the new CS3 shold
allow it to run well in a wide range of different machines, I have been having problems (primarily with Bridge CS3) running on my PowerMac G5 dual processor which is only slightly more than 2 years old.

I have found that, above all things, the video card requirements to run Photoshop CS3 with both Bridge and ACR are a lot more stringent than Adobe claims (including the hardwire requirements it erroneously and untruthfully
has printed on the back of the software package). To run this programs you really need to have a reasonably powerful graphics card. Mine has only 64 MB
of VRAM and I have been told by some Adobe tech support people that you need
to have a minimum of 128 MB while it would really be advisable to have 256 MB (or even 512 Mb if you can).

Take a look at your video card as it may very well be what the bottleneck in
your system just as it is mine.

Best regards,

Joseph Chamberlain

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On 6/28/07 3:49 AM, in article
46839232$0$14986$, "Paul Burdett"
wrote:

Hi all,

I recently purchased CS3 Extended after having used CS2 for quite a while.
Up until yesterday my system was p4, 3.0 GHz, win xp pro,1 Gig ram, single
hard drive with 117 Gig free space. Cs3 initially runs well but ocassionally
slows down when processing files. When selecting the liquify filter the image is shown in stages instead of appearing instantly (redraw issue I guess?) Anyhow…today I had an extra gig of ram put in as well as a second
hard drive (320GB). It seems to run faster initially, but again, seems to be
no faster during editing. In the scratch disk preference I have the new drive ("F") listed first, above the "C" drive, and both checked. Is that correct? I have the cache set to 6 and allocated 70% of ram to photoshop as
per the suggestions in the help files.
I’ve checked msconfig/startup and there’s not much running in the background. I feel that CS3 should be a little faster than it is. I did a "merge to hdr" with 6 images and it took quite a while, although I did have
"attempt to align" checked…a little faster without it checked. Any suggestions appreciated.
Cheers,
Paul

Paul Burdett wrote:

Hi all,

I recently purchased CS3 Extended after having used CS2 for quite a while. Up until yesterday my system was p4, 3.0 GHz, win xp pro,1 Gig ram, single hard drive with 117 Gig free space. Cs3 initially runs well but ocassionally slows down when processing files. When selecting the liquify filter the image is shown in stages instead of appearing instantly (redraw issue I guess?) Anyhow…today I had an extra gig of ram put in as well as a second hard drive (320GB). It seems to run faster initially, but again, seems to be no faster during editing. In the scratch disk preference I have the new drive ("F") listed first, above the "C" drive, and both checked. Is that correct? I have the cache set to 6 and allocated 70% of ram to photoshop as per the suggestions in the help files.
I’ve checked msconfig/startup and there’s not much running in the background. I feel that CS3 should be a little faster than it is. I did a "merge to hdr" with 6 images and it took quite a while, although I did have "attempt to align" checked…a little faster without it checked. Any suggestions appreciated.
Cheers,
Paul

Even on my Quad 3ghz (2 x dual core Xeon) Mac Pro with 4gb RAM PhotoShop and over 1Tb of scratch space, still takes time to processes some complex images & filters. Just one of those things – PhotoShop does a LOT of work, and takes time! PhotoShop CS3 is almost twice as fast at some things as CS2, so I have to wait half as long now 🙂

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