Photoshop CS hangs, how do I fix?

Hi,

I was having no problems like this with PS 7 on the same machine. I recently installed CS a couple of weeks ago and the problem seems to be occuring more frequently.

After working on an image, sometimes for not even a very long time, say 10 minutes or so, Photoshop will just sit there doing nothing, and accepting no more input. When this happens the screen frequently isn’t repainted if I move another window over it. PS will stay like this sometimes for 5 or 10 minutes before recovering and allowing me to work again for a little while. My images aren’t especially large, they start out as 9 meg .NEF files. I prefer working in 16bit mode, but that seems to make PS even more likely to hang.

When PS is stuck like this the CPU utilization remains at something normal like <5%. But PS’s memory usage does seem to be high for a 9meg file. It always has well above 100megs ram allocated. So when PS is stuck I can go use the computer for everything else just fine.
My machine is about a year old Pentium 4 running at 1.4Ghz. 640 megs of RAM
Windows XP
Currently with about 2GB of free disk space. Though I only have one disk drive in the machine.

Any help would really be appreciated.

Thanks, Derek

Windows XP
Currently with about 2GB of free disk space. Though I only have one disk drive in the machine.

There ya go. And are you really sure you have 2GB free while PS is running? Get another disc. Or two.

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There ya go. And are you really sure you have 2GB free while PS is running? Get another disc. Or two.

This wouldn’t explain why Derek has no problems with this configuration while running PS7.

Also, I have two HDD’s with a 5 GB scratch partition on
the second drive, yet I have the same problem as described in Derek’s post. Is CS worse at managing memory resources/scratch disc than PS7?

Hi,

I was having no problems like this with PS 7 on the same machine. I recently installed CS a couple of weeks ago and the problem seems to be occuring more frequently.

After working on an image, sometimes for not even a very long time, say 10 minutes or so, Photoshop will just sit there doing nothing, and accepting no more input. When this happens the screen frequently isn’t repainted if I move another window over it. PS will stay like this sometimes for 5 or 10 minutes before recovering and allowing me to work again for a little while. My images aren’t especially large, they start out as 9 meg .NEF files. I prefer working in 16bit mode, but that seems to make PS even more likely to hang.

When PS is stuck like this the CPU utilization remains at something normal like <5%. But PS’s memory usage does seem to be high for a 9meg file. It always has well above 100megs ram allocated. So when PS is stuck I can go use the computer for everything else just fine.
My machine is about a year old Pentium 4 running at 1.4Ghz. 640 megs of RAM
Windows XP
Currently with about 2GB of free disk space. Though I only have one disk drive in the machine.

Any help would really be appreciated.

Thanks, Derek

Hi,

I was having no problems like this with PS 7 on the same machine. I recently installed CS a couple of weeks ago and the problem seems to be occuring more frequently.

After working on an image, sometimes for not even a very long time, say 10 minutes or so, Photoshop will just sit there doing nothing, and accepting no more input. When this happens the screen frequently isn’t repainted if I move another window over it. PS will stay like this sometimes for 5 or 10 minutes before recovering and allowing me to work again for a little while. My images aren’t especially large, they start out as 9 meg .NEF files. I prefer working in 16bit mode, but that seems to make PS even more likely to hang.

When PS is stuck like this the CPU utilization remains at something normal like <5%. But PS’s memory usage does seem to be high for a 9meg file. It always has well above 100megs ram allocated. So when PS is stuck I can go use the computer for everything else just fine.
My machine is about a year old Pentium 4 running at 1.4Ghz. 640 megs of RAM
Windows XP
Currently with about 2GB of free disk space. Though I only have one disk drive in the machine.

Any help would really be appreciated.

Thanks, Derek

We work professionally with photoshop, and returned to photoshop 7.01. We worked for two weeks with the CS and performance really sucks. 1256 ram / XP pro/ and very fast scsi drives.