Photoshop CS2 9.01 Slow

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Phosphor
Jul 31, 2006
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I am using on a 3.0gh P4 with 1gb of RAM. When editing a photo and adding text the system crawls to a halt. I notice that the page file grows, sometimes to 2gb and available memory is hogged. This is not a complex file and should not take so much memory. I would think the PC is powerful enough to handle this.

This is a pretty new install and has been an issue since we installed. I saw some of the optimization suggestions and tried to no avail.

-Thanks
-Ben

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chrisjbirchall
Jul 31, 2006
How much memory have you allocated to Photoshop in the preferences?

And what is your scratch disk setup?
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Ben_Bazian
Jul 31, 2006
72% of the available 899mb and the entire startup disk.
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chrisjbirchall
Jul 31, 2006
Photoshop ships with the allocation set at 55%. Even that can be too high when you are working on large files on a system which only 1GB of on-board RAM.

Try dropping it down the 40 or 45%. This will allow more breathing space for everything else. Otherwise if the OS starts paging out to VM things can REALLY slow down.

Remember, the scratch file is effectively Photoshop’s "RAM" The allocated memory (real RAM) acts as a kind of cache for this.

Yes, your system will improve with the addition of another GB. But either way you need to ensure you have a large chunk of free, defragmented space (10 – 20 GB) available for the scratch disk. Ideally this would be on a seperate physical drive to the one containing the Windows paging file.

Hope this helps.

Chris.

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