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I recently bought a new PC. I used to have a virtually identical PC that was running CS2 under windows XP, until it blew up, which is why it needed to be replaced. Alas the new PC is running Vista. Under XP, the performance was great, but under Vista it is very poor indeed. In particular selecting a region or painting with a large brush, and the PC just can’t cope and there are frequent pauses that make it just about impossible to use CS2. I have checked the performance monitor, and it seems that there is plenty of memory, but the CPU usage is hitting 100% all the time. But this is a 3Ghz Dual Core, with 4Gb of RAM ( only 1Gb is ever used ) and a top of the range graphics (8800) card. The issues are related to the sixe of the image, typical image sizes I edit are around 2500×2500. Provided I trim the image to about 1000×1000 then everything is ok. But this is a ral pain. Does anyone know how I can improve performance?
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