SC3 Photoshop Crashes all the time – I cant take it anymore!!!

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A.D_Mark
May 24, 2007
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Hi

Before anyone sais anything about my machine performance, its 3 weeks old Dell D820:Details as follows:
OS Name Microsoft® Windows Vista™ Ultimate
Version 6.0.6000 Build 6000
System Manufacturer Dell Inc.
System Model Latitude D820
System Type X86-based PC
Processor Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU T7600 @ 2.33GHz, 2333 Mhz, 2 Core(s), 2 Logical Processor(s) BIOS Version/Date Dell Inc. A06, 02/04/2007
SMBIOS Version 2.4
Windows Directory C:\Windows
System Directory C:\Windows\system32
Boot Device \Device\HarddiskVolume3
Locale Ireland
Hardware Abstraction Layer Version = "6.0.6000.16407" Time Zone GMT Daylight Time
Total Physical Memory 3,325.50 MB
Available Physical Memory 2.28 GB
Total Virtual Memory 6.67 GB
Available Virtual Memory 5.71 GB
Page File Space 3.54 GB
Page File C:\pagefile.sys

I spent 2 grand getting new SC3 our company have previously bought 3 SC2’s in other words have spent thousands of euro’s for adobe products…
But this is what we get now…SC3 Crashes with multiple images all the time it also crashes when i try open large multiple images …
I have read through forums here as elsewhere, i have tried get help from Adobe and nothing!!! Why is this happening!?We also Installed SC on our precision workstation and exactly the same thing! No error given – just program not responding and that’s it! I Cant describe the frustration we have gone through
Everyone who thinking get SC3 beware! SC3 Is the worst piece of software from Adobe iv’e seen so far!
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chrisjbirchall
May 24, 2007
SC3 Is the worst piece of software from Adobe iv’e seen so far!

Works like a dream on my machine.

Mind you – I did install CS3 the right way around.
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Mathias_Vejerslev
May 24, 2007
So, did you apply the advice given here on the forum in the thread titled CS3 crashes all the time? Did you go through the knowledgebase?
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A.D_Mark
May 24, 2007
Yes i Did, We even installed whole new version on our Desktop which never had any SC’s on it…tried change printer settings etc…everything that recommended here and elsewhere!And cant get it working.We also paid professional IT guy look into and and he could not figure out what’s the problem and have now installed SC2 back.
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chrisjbirchall
May 24, 2007
What is your Scratch Disk Setup?

How much RAM do you have allocated to PS in Preferences?
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dave_milbut
May 24, 2007
what’s an SC?
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dave_milbut
May 24, 2007
update all drivers on the system. especially mouse and video. actually, remove the mouse drivers (if installed) and just use the default windows driver. see if that helps. there’ve been several reports of problems with newer versions of both logitech and ms intellipoint drivers.

if that doesn’t do it turn off hardware acceleration on the video card (can you do that in vista? in xp it’s in control panel> display> settings> advanced> troubleshooting) – if that works it’s a video driver problem. leave it off and contact the vid card maker and report the bug. most video manufacturer’s are pretty quick to fix bugs in their drivers.
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A.D_Mark
May 25, 2007
Hi

it sais:
available RAM 1687 MB
Ideal range 927 -1214mb
let photoshop use 995 MB

History & cache
history states 20
cache levels 6

GPU settings

Enable 3D Acceleration is marked on.

I also unistalled my Logitech mouse key board and driver i dont think i have any other drives installed except the ones What come with vista…

I cant even find the place on Vista control panel where i could turn of hardware acceleration?

My Graphics card is:
NVIDIA Quadro NVS 120M

Thanks,Mark
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joshua_ribbeck
May 26, 2007
look on your printers in windows, and make sure the AdobePDF printer is the default. I have found that it crashes heavily when any other printer besides the AdobePDF printer is set as the default.
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Lawrence_Hudetz
May 26, 2007
I don’t have anything except the Canon as default and CS3 doesn’t crash.

Adobe PDF Printer? Since when is .pdf a printer?
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ID._Awe
May 26, 2007
Larry: Since a long time. Where have you been.
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Lawrence_Hudetz
May 26, 2007
I’ve never seen it defined as a printer. Like, what hardware is involved?

I’m such a klutz, apparently!
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Lawrence_Hudetz
May 26, 2007
Hmmm, after writing the above, I went to Printers and Faxes, used the Wizard to search for Plug ‘n Play printers, and the Wizard comes up empty.

So, what convoluted process is involved to flag PDF as a printer? And WHY?

Inquiring minds want to know! 😀
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Michael_D_Sullivan
May 26, 2007
To have the PDF printer, you need to have Acrobat (not just Reader) installed, or certain other software that includes it. It’s just a way of "printing" to a PDF file instead of to hardware, so you can make PDFs from apps that don’t have a "Print to PDF" or "Export to PDF" menu item.
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John_Rudy
May 26, 2007
Whether using "Syncronize" or "Previous Conversion" on a selection of multiple raw images in Bridge 4.0 (CS3), Bridge crashes, Windows offers to report the error, and then Bridge closes. In most cases, when reopening Bridge, the previous XMP image changes have been executed. In light of the many complaints regarding crashes when working with multiple images, I would hope Adobe takes notice and offers a "patch" to correct the problem.
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ID._Awe
May 26, 2007
Larry: Pagemaker has been installing a PDF printer since v5, InDesign also does that. Photoshop does not.

I’ve had a PDF printer for at least twelve years now. Didn’t mean to sound so, so………………., it has always been there for me.

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