Photoshop hangs, PF usage shoots high up

SK
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Seok_Kheng_Tan
Jul 4, 2007
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Hi.

I am currently running Photoshop CS2 on Windows XP Professional SP2, AMD Turion 64 X2, 1.60GHz, 448 MB of RAM.

I’ve been using it for almost half a year and it was running smooth and fine before this until recently when I tried launching Photoshop, it hangs. I then observed the PF Usage in Windows Task Manager once I opened Photoshop and noticed that the PF Usage keeps shooting high up and exceeds 1.55G without me doing any activities in Photoshop. I’ve tried reinstalling Photoshop CS2 and lowering the hardware acceleration in my system but neither helps.

My Memory Usage settings now in Photoshop is currently set as 55%.

Please guide me on what to do before I have to come to my last resolve, that is to reformat. Thanks in advance.
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chrisjbirchall
Jul 4, 2007
Photoshop CS2 will run in 448MB of RAM – but only just!

Give it a large file and you’ll be struggling. 1GB would be more comfortable, but for PS to run smoothly you really need to be looking at 2GB of RAM.

Also make sure you have plenty of free, defragmented space for your scratch disk – preferably on a different physical drive to the OS. No hard drive should be allowed to become more than 80% full otherwise it will choke on the many temporary files created by the OS and programs as they run.

Hope this helps.

Chris.
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Seok_Kheng_Tan
Jul 4, 2007
Thanks for the reply.

Both of my hard drives are definitely not more than 80% full, and I only have Mozilla Firefox running while I launched Photoshop. I did not try opening any image files nor run any applications on it, my laptop was left untouched, but still, the PF Usage in Windows Task Manager just kept shooting higher and higher, it did not stop until I had to eventually close Photoshop before my laptop hangs again.
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chrisjbirchall
Jul 4, 2007
Not withstanding the advice in post #1:

* Reset the Preferences file (as detailed in the FAQs)

* Temporarily move all but the essential Windows fonts to another location.

* Do the same with the Plug-ins.

Try these in this order. If one of the latter two remedies the situation, move the fonts’plug-ins back a few at a time until the culprit is found.
RK
Rob_Keijzer
Jul 4, 2007
Further to Chris’ replies, also check that Ps isn’t frantically searching for a (network) printer that isn’t there.

Rob
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Seok_Kheng_Tan
Jul 4, 2007
Sorry but I just need to double confirm.

Fonts = Fonts found in Control Panel?
Plug-Ins = Plug-Ins found in Adobe Photoshop CS2 folder?

Which are the "essential Windows fonts"?

Tried resetting the Preferences file, but it won’t help.

Thanks again.
JJ
John_Joslin
Jul 4, 2007
Windows fonts:

<http://www.adobe.com/support/techdocs/326402.html>

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