Photoshop ME (both cs1 and cs2) cause instant reboot on vector actions

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m7mambo
Jun 26, 2006
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Hello everyone.

I have both Photoshop CS1 and CS2 ME installed, both cause an extremely serious problem:

In both versions, the following actions cause an instant reboot:
1. When I perform several vector actions related to New Fill Layer ->
Solid Color or drawing a path and then doing New Fill Layer->Solid Color a few times.
2. Also, when opening a .psd or photoshop pdf file that includes many Solid fill color layers with Vector masks and attempting to hide/show layers (and sometimes even just opening those).

When searching Google Groups I noticed a message that suggests that one should disable Adobe Gamma Loader to prevent this, It seemed to work at first with CS2ME, but then case #1 occured again.

This practically renders photoshop completely unusable for me.

I have a Athalon XP, with XP Professional SP1, Geforce 2 Mx 100/200.

Hope someone can help. 🙂

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Mike Hyndman
Jun 26, 2006
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Hello everyone.

I have both Photoshop CS1 and CS2 ME installed, both cause an extremely serious problem:

In both versions, the following actions cause an instant reboot:
1. When I perform several vector actions related to New Fill Layer ->
Solid Color or drawing a path and then doing New Fill Layer->Solid Color a few times.
2. Also, when opening a .psd or photoshop pdf file that includes many Solid fill color layers with Vector masks and attempting to hide/show layers (and sometimes even just opening those).

When searching Google Groups I noticed a message that suggests that one should disable Adobe Gamma Loader to prevent this, It seemed to work at first with CS2ME, but then case #1 occured again.

This practically renders photoshop completely unusable for me.
I have a Athalon XP, with XP Professional SP1, Geforce 2 Mx 100/200.
Hope someone can help. 🙂

How much RAM?
How is it installed? (1 * Ammount, 2 * Amount?) If two* 512 sticks or more, try removing one, retry and then swap them over.
How much is allocated to PS (55%?)
How many history states?
How are (if any) your scratch discs configured? Reduce them to one and increase them slowly if problem disappears
Check the above in Edit>Preferences
Unless you have an LCD monitor with a third party profile loader, disabling Adobe Gamma will affect how PS displays on screen colours.(your monitor profile will not be loaded)

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m7mambo
Jun 26, 2006
Hey mike,

thanks for the reply.

don at alt.graphics.photoshop suggested:

Techs at Adobe were able to determine that the problem occured because of the
chip with Hyper threading technology. There were 2 files that work with the MNX
processor that apparantly didn’t work with this type of processor.

The files are called Fastcore.8bx and MMXcore.8bx located in Photoshop\plugins\extensions directory. Just change the file ext. to ..old or
anything instead of 8bx so the files are not loaded next time PS loads."

// end of suggestion

I renamed the files and Photoshop seems to work quite well since. new fill layers and working with the mentioned images work well the last few mins since I’ve done this.
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Mike Hyndman
Jun 27, 2006
wrote in message
Hey mike,

thanks for the reply.

don at alt.graphics.photoshop suggested:

Techs at Adobe were able to determine that the problem occured because of the
chip with Hyper threading technology. There were 2 files that work with the MNX
processor that apparantly didn’t work with this type of processor.
The files are called Fastcore.8bx and MMXcore.8bx located in Photoshop\plugins\extensions directory. Just change the file ext. to .old or
anything instead of 8bx so the files are not loaded next time PS loads."

// end of suggestion

I renamed the files and Photoshop seems to work quite well since. new fill layers and working with the mentioned images work well the last few mins since I’ve done this.

Thanks for the update,one to remember. Last time I checked, AMD’s were not supported by Adobe but they seem to work perfectly well (most of the time, like mine ;)) and the only problems I have heard of re hyperthreading involved the Intel Dual cores.

Regards

MH

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