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Hello!
Recently I struggled for weeks, trying to increase the performance of CS2, until I found out that I had to DISABLE the bigger tiles plugin in order to boost the performance!
The setting: Dell Dimension XPS 9100, Pentium 4, 3 GHz, Windows XP, 3 GB RAM (/3gb option), ATI Radeon X600 256 MB RAM, RAID 0.
I was having enormous problems working on complex web layouts with lots of layers. It took about 2-3 minutes to open a "normal" web layout, the file being about 8 MB on disk. I observed that the file occupied about 100 times more RAM (about 800-900 MB), according to the information in "Document Size" in CS2.
Screen redraw (zooming in and out) was almost impossible to wait for. I played with all possible settings. No layer thumb preview, no font preview, few fonts installed, only 4 history states, memory settings from 55 to 75 %, various cache level setting, upgrading from 2 to 3 GB RAM – no improvements at all. Until I DISABLED the "bigger tiles plugin"!
I had it activated before, because I’ve read in so many threads and tech docs that it should IMPROVE performance on systems with more than 1 GB RAM. Therefore I didn’t even consider to disable it in the first place.
Now, with the plugin disabled, I got the desired boost in performance. Everything’s extremely fast again. Oddly enough, all files now occupy only a fraction of RAM (about one eigth of the size as opposed to with the plugin enabled). Of course, I changed nothing in the document itself. This behavior can be reproduced easily through disabling and enabling the "bigger tiles plugin".
I’d appreciate information about this, just for curiosity.
Thanks in advance,
Jay
Recently I struggled for weeks, trying to increase the performance of CS2, until I found out that I had to DISABLE the bigger tiles plugin in order to boost the performance!
The setting: Dell Dimension XPS 9100, Pentium 4, 3 GHz, Windows XP, 3 GB RAM (/3gb option), ATI Radeon X600 256 MB RAM, RAID 0.
I was having enormous problems working on complex web layouts with lots of layers. It took about 2-3 minutes to open a "normal" web layout, the file being about 8 MB on disk. I observed that the file occupied about 100 times more RAM (about 800-900 MB), according to the information in "Document Size" in CS2.
Screen redraw (zooming in and out) was almost impossible to wait for. I played with all possible settings. No layer thumb preview, no font preview, few fonts installed, only 4 history states, memory settings from 55 to 75 %, various cache level setting, upgrading from 2 to 3 GB RAM – no improvements at all. Until I DISABLED the "bigger tiles plugin"!
I had it activated before, because I’ve read in so many threads and tech docs that it should IMPROVE performance on systems with more than 1 GB RAM. Therefore I didn’t even consider to disable it in the first place.
Now, with the plugin disabled, I got the desired boost in performance. Everything’s extremely fast again. Oddly enough, all files now occupy only a fraction of RAM (about one eigth of the size as opposed to with the plugin enabled). Of course, I changed nothing in the document itself. This behavior can be reproduced easily through disabling and enabling the "bigger tiles plugin".
I’d appreciate information about this, just for curiosity.
Thanks in advance,
Jay
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