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Well lets start with equipment.
AMD Athlon XP Barton 1.8 Ghz
1Gb Crucial RAM
Shuttle Ultra 400 333 FSB
C: Seagate 160G
D: Seagate 40G Photoshop scratch disk, nothing else on it Win XP page files = MIN/MAX = 3.0Gb
Photoshop RAM allocation is at 60% currently, but have tried settings from 50% up to 75% with no apparent change in performance.
At 70% Windows task manager reports 90Meg available even when working on 16 bit images, multiple layers, multiple images open at once, and while running filters as well as history brush and all with Bridge open minimized.
Hard drive has clean registry, defragged, XP prefetch folder cleared, and no tmp files on the system.
PSCS has been running like a dream on this machine, re-draws and effects happen without any lag what so ever. Now with CS2 installed everything has slowed terribly. Burning or dodging requires a 5 to 10 second wait for the machine to catch up, moves in a composite image require longer. Even when I mouse over the palette tabs in the palette well, it takes a good 2 seconds before the tab come to the front of the well, and when I select a palette I can almost watch it drop down. With CS these things happened almost instantaneously.
I dont know whether I should uninstall CS2 and go back to CS until I can build a faster machine, or if theres something Ive overlooked in my setup.
Ive been watching the posts here, and it seems as though Im not the only one with performance issues since upgrading to CS2. I could understand if I was trying to run the app. On a 400Mhz Celeron with 512K of RAM and a 100Mhz FSB MB, but I think my box should be able to handle it. Maybe not, nay help would be greatly appreciated. Are you out there Chris?
Regards
Larry Brusso
AMD Athlon XP Barton 1.8 Ghz
1Gb Crucial RAM
Shuttle Ultra 400 333 FSB
C: Seagate 160G
D: Seagate 40G Photoshop scratch disk, nothing else on it Win XP page files = MIN/MAX = 3.0Gb
Photoshop RAM allocation is at 60% currently, but have tried settings from 50% up to 75% with no apparent change in performance.
At 70% Windows task manager reports 90Meg available even when working on 16 bit images, multiple layers, multiple images open at once, and while running filters as well as history brush and all with Bridge open minimized.
Hard drive has clean registry, defragged, XP prefetch folder cleared, and no tmp files on the system.
PSCS has been running like a dream on this machine, re-draws and effects happen without any lag what so ever. Now with CS2 installed everything has slowed terribly. Burning or dodging requires a 5 to 10 second wait for the machine to catch up, moves in a composite image require longer. Even when I mouse over the palette tabs in the palette well, it takes a good 2 seconds before the tab come to the front of the well, and when I select a palette I can almost watch it drop down. With CS these things happened almost instantaneously.
I dont know whether I should uninstall CS2 and go back to CS until I can build a faster machine, or if theres something Ive overlooked in my setup.
Ive been watching the posts here, and it seems as though Im not the only one with performance issues since upgrading to CS2. I could understand if I was trying to run the app. On a 400Mhz Celeron with 512K of RAM and a 100Mhz FSB MB, but I think my box should be able to handle it. Maybe not, nay help would be greatly appreciated. Are you out there Chris?
Regards
Larry Brusso
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