I’ve got the cache to 90% and played with that.
Shouldn’t be more than 55%.
I’ll change it when I get home, but it was working fine prior to all of this with the 90%.
When you set it above 55%, you are beginning to starve the rest of your operating system of needed memory. That may very well be what is happening – low ram may be causing your hourglass situation. Set that first, and if that doesn’t change the behavior, then let us know.
Hey,
I reset ram memory usage to 55%, cache is at 6. closed all other applications. It helped a bit, it is now back to the 10 – 15 minutes of doing o.k. then it will do the non-reponsive thing again, but it responds a bit faster than before, I only have to tap tap tap about 5 time before it will complete the action. It will go through this glitch for about 5 minutes, of the slowwwwww response with the hour glass and when I tap, again all the boxes go white. Then be o.k. for about 10- 15 minutes. I have 1 G ram, shouldn’t that be enough? I sure hope you can help me figure it out. I’ll take the time if I get the advice. Thanks.
I have 1 G ram, shouldn’t that be enough?
I dunno – Under photoshop 7, for very heavy automation, I never needed more than 512MB of ram. In fact, I ran under Win98 for a time with only 256.
Since CS2 though, I have experienced the same sluggishness. I was swearing at the computer because of the amount of time it would take to complete a task. In one action, running the Lens Blur filter sometimes took 30 seconds to run.
I read here that 1 MB of ram would be a minimum that one should run. I considered upgrading to 1MB and decided to upgrade to 2MB. It makes ALL the difference in the world. The program now operates as one would expect on a 3.2 GHz pentium 4.
Is that your problem? I don’t know. What you should do first, is go to the top of this forum and click on the Knowledge Base Link. There you will find a document discussing how to improve performance of photoshop. Read that over and try what you can there.
Also note that the more fragmented your hard drive, and the less space you have on it, the more sluggish Photoshop will become. You need ample space on the hard drive for PS to use its scratch disk.
Peace,
Tony
The problem is coming and going. Disk fragmented, disk error run, clean up disk run, new driver for graphics and tablet, plus as mentioned earlier changing ram space. I’ve got 71G free space since I moved my pictures out to an external. I’ve read through a support knowledgebase about errors or freezes, and will look for others. Sometimes it is less ‘bad’ than others. It is driving me crazy. Any more suggestions?
do you have the 9.01 update installed? you you have font previews turned off? all windows drivers (video especially) updated and working properly? how many fonts installed?
also 1 gig is fine. i’ve been running cs2 w/1 gig since it’s release.
Dave, So I"ve turned off the font previews, how do I find out how many fonts are installed? Do fonts cause problems? Updated the video driver today. Regarding the 9.01 update. I downloaded it and unzipped it. Went to that file, read the read-me, started the install wizard,after a bit, an error message came up that said this version of windows wouldn’t support CS2, which I have XP Pro, and have been running it fine. When I clicked that closed, the installshield said it successfully installed update. Where can I check to see if infact the update was successful? So you know where in the system I can check? Thanks!
This is what is in "system" in photoshop. I don’t see anything about update 9.01
Adobe Photoshop Version: 9.0 (9.0×196)
Operating System: Windows XP
Version: 5.1
System architecture: Intel CPU Family:15, Model:2, Stepping:4 with MMX, SSE Integer, SSE FP, SSE2, HyperThreading
Physical processor count: 1
Processor speed: 2254 MHz
Built-in memory: 1023 MB
Free memory: 225 MB
Memory available to Photoshop: 908 MB
Memory used by Photoshop: 60 %
Image cache levels: 6
Application folder: C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Photoshop CS2\ Temporary file path: C:\DOCUME~1\ADMINI~1\LOCALS~1\Temp\ Photoshop scratch has async I/O enabled
Scratch volume(s):
G:\, 279.5G, 179.7G free
I:\, 279.5G, 165.2G free
C:\, 111.7G, 74.8G free
Primary Plug-ins folder: C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Photoshop CS2\Plug-Ins\ Additional Plug-ins folder: not set
Installed plug-ins:
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55mm Black Mist NO VERSION
55mm Black and White NO VERSION
55mm Bleach Bypass NO VERSION
55mm Center Spot NO VERSION
55mm Color Conversion NO VERSION
55mm Color Correct NO VERSION
55mm Color Grad NO VERSION
55mm Color Temperature NO VERSION
55mm Cross Processing NO VERSION
55mm Defocus NO VERSION
55mm Diffusion NO VERSION
55mm Dual Tint NO VERSION
55mm Enhancing NO VERSION
55mm F-Stop NO VERSION
55mm Fast Blur NO VERSION
55mm Faux Film NO VERSION
55mm Fluorescent NO VERSION
55mm Fog NO VERSION
55mm Glow NO VERSION
55mm Grain NO VERSION
55mm Infrared NO VERSION
55mm Lens Distortion NO VERSION
55mm Light! NO VERSION
55mm Low Contrast NO VERSION
55mm Matte Generator NO VERSION
55mm Mist NO VERSION
55mm ND Grad NO VERSION
55mm Night Vision NO VERSION
55mm Overexpose NO VERSION
55mm Ozone NO VERSION
55mm Polarizer NO VERSION
55mm Printer Points NO VERSION
55mm Rosco Calcolor NO VERSION
55mm Rosco Cinegel NO VERSION
55mm Rosco Cinelux NO VERSION
55mm Rosco Storaro NO VERSION
55mm Selective Color NO VERSION
55mm Selective Focus NO VERSION
55mm Selective Saturation NO VERSION
55mm Soft EFX NO VERSION
55mm Star NO VERSION
55mm Streaks NO VERSION
55mm Sunset/Twilight NO VERSION
55mm Temperature NO VERSION
55mm Tint NO VERSION
55mm Ultra Contrast NO VERSION
55mm Warm Mist NO VERSION
ADM 3.10×21
ASDStrm 1.03×2
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Angled Strokes 9.0
Average 9.0 (9.0×196)
BMP 9.0 (9.0×196)
Bas Relief 9.0
Brilliance/Warmth NO VERSION
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Charcoal 9.0
Chrome 9.0
Cineon 9.0 (9.0×196)
Clouds 9.0 (9.0×196)
Color Halftone 9.0 (9.0×196)
Colored Pencil 9.0
CompuServe GIF 9.0 (9.0×196)
Conditional Mode Change 9.0 (9.0×196)
Contact Sheet II 9.0 (9.0×196)
Contrast Only NO VERSION
Conté Crayon 9.0
Craquelure 9.0
Crop and Straighten Photos 9.0 (9.0×196)
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Crosshatch 9.0
Crystallize 9.0 (9.0×196)
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Displace 9.0 (9.0×196)
DitherBox NO VERSION
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Embed Watermark 1.70.19
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Extrude 9.0 (9.0×196)
FastCore Routines 9.0 (9.0×196)
Fibers 9.0 (9.0×196)
Film Grain 9.0
Filmstrip 9.0 (9.0×196)
Filter Factory 3.0.5
Filter Factory Example 3.00
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Fit Image 9.0 (9.0×196)
Fresco 9.0
Generic EPS 9.0
Glass 9.0
Glowing Edges 9.0
Graduated Blue NO VERSION
Grain 9.0
Graphic Pen 9.0
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HDRMergeUI 9.0×001
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Ink Outlines 9.0
Lens Blur 9.0
Lens Correction 9.0
Lens Flare 9.0 (9.0×196)
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Lights 3.00
Liquify 9.0
Luminosity->Opacity 3.00
MMXCore Routines 9.0 (9.0×196)
Merge to HDR 1.0×001
Mezzotint 9.0 (9.0×196)
Midnight Blue NO VERSION
Monday Morning Violet NO VERSION
Mosaic Tiles 9.0
Multiprocessor Support 9.0 (9.0×196)
NTSC Colors 9.0 (9.0×196)
Neon Glow 9.0
Note Paper 9.0
Ocean Ripple 9.0
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PCX 9.0 (9.0×196)
PNG 9.0 (9.0×196)
PNG Icons 1.22×1
Paint Daubs 9.0
Palette Knife 9.0
Pastel NO VERSION
Patchwork 9.0
Paths to Illustrator 9.0 (9.0×196)
Pattern Maker 9.0 (9.0×196)
Photo CD 9.0 (9.0×196)
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Radiance 9.0 (9.0×196)
Read Watermark 1.70.19
Remove Color Cast NO VERSION
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Ripple 9.0 (9.0×196)
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Set Transparency 3.00
Shear 9.0 (9.0×196)
Smart Blur 9.0 (9.0×196)
Smudge Stick 9.0
Solarization: Color NO VERSION
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Stamp 9.0
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Twirl 9.0 (9.0×196)
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Video Preview 9.0 (9.0×196)
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Watercolor 9.0
Wave 9.0 (9.0×196)
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Wind 9.0 (9.0×196)
Wireless Bitmap 9.0 (9.0×196)
ZigZag 9.0 (9.0×196)
nik Color Efex Pro 2.0 Selective IE NO VERSION
Plug-ins that failed to load: NONE
Installed TWAIN devices:
Image Expert Supported Camera
SilverFast Epson-SE (32 Bit)
HP Digital Camera
EPSON TWAIN 5
Turn off hyperthreating in BIOS if it is.
are you running windows service pack 2?
Pipkin: what is "hyperthreating in BIOS"? I’m not that computer savvy. Dave: no service pack 2. I’ve heard too much about, if it not being already installed on the Dell, it screwing up everything when installed after factory. Could that be why I can’t do the update?
Could that be why I can’t do the update?
that’d be my guess. there’ve been many MANY updates since sp2 and any bugs in it are fixed (well, lets say many bugs in it are fixed!<g>) it’s pretty stable now.
Hyper-Threading Technology <
http://www.intel.com/technology/hyperthread/> provides thread-level parallelism on each processor, resulting in more efficient use of processor resources, higher processing throughput, and improved performance on today’s multithreaded software.
In my case (on office PC with Intel Pentium), Photoshop could not work properly with HT being ON. And another guys here have recommended to turn HT off too. If you do have AMD processor, then no problem.
Pipkin, so how do you turn HT off? I have PC with XP pro. Is it easy enough that I don’t screw something else up? Can you tell me or direct me to where I can see how?
Dave, I guess I’ll have to wait till I get a new computer that has SP2 installed already. Some updates install fine, as I do them from PS updater. Just not that one.
Go to BIOS when rebooting or starting machine.
And I don’t insist on, just to check if it would be better. But in my office machine after HT disableing Photoshop began running at full tilt rather than crawling like sluggish tortoise…
Dave, I guess I’ll have to wait till I get a new computer that has SP2 installed already.
why, just run windows update and it will ask if you want to install it. say yes.
and i wouldn’t turn HT off unless it was necessary. it makes your system run faster with many applications. and if it IS necessary, then somethings wrong with the hardware on your machine.
Well, it is doing o.k. these last few times I’ve used it, maybe it was the updateing the video card driver, or doing the disk clean up I did a yesterday. Still slow but no hoovering hour glass. Lets keep our fingers crossed, I’m tired of being so upset about it.
I won’t fool with the HT, I tend to screw things up and really don’t like getting too into the system.
I’ll wait on the sp2, I have the disk here. As I understand it, when it is installed on one of Dell’s computer after factory, it causes major havic with things and I was advised not to install it. But if it is installed on a Dell in factory prior to shipping, it works fine. I’m too afraid. thanks guys, hopefully all the tweeks have helped.
As I understand it, when it is installed on one of Dell’s computer after factory, it causes major havic with things and I was advised not to install it
whoever told you that is a fool. there are to many security rollups in sp2 to count. and many more after it’s release that are only installable if you use sp2. if you use that machine on the web you need to install it before you system is compromised. it’s your personal information and data. it’s your security. do what you will. <forest>and that’s all i’m gonna say about that.</forest>
