Photoshop Memory Usage and filters (bug?)

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Psychic StickleBrick
Dec 17, 2003
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Last Monday I took delivery of a new Dell machine, 3GHz P4 with Hyper threading and 2GB of DDR400 RAM. This made me happy. I then installed Photoshop CS. This made me very happy, until.

I have discovered that when trying to run filters such as Glass, Spherize, or Flexify (a Flaming Pear filter) and others I get the error "not enough storage is available to complete this operation." Even though the Task Manager tells me there is still 500-1000MB of RAM available/free and there’s copious amounts of space on the scratch disk.

In order to solve this I need to set Photoshop’s memory usage to 45% of total RAM or LOWER! The filters will then run. When I am not using these particular filters, I can happily run at 75% memory usage or more. This is kind of the opposite of what I would have expected!

It seems that these filters need more RAM outside that of the memory usage allocated in the Photoshop preferences, or there is something wrong with my setup. Or maybe this is just normal?

Either way, why should I have to lower Photoshop’s memory usage and reload just so use certain filters? I don’t want to waste all that lovely RAM by having Photoshop’s usage set this low all the time. Photoshop really needs better memory management than this.

Admittedly, I am working with large files, typically 100Mpixels (which come out at about a 300MB TIFF or 270MB PSD). I’m running Windows XP Home and have 2GB of RAM in total. My system disk has about 15GB free (this is where the Windows Page files is) and my scratch disk (for Photoshop scratch) has about 25GB space free.

Any help appreciated, thanks,

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Mike Davis
Dec 17, 2003
Sounds like the problem isn’t within PS but rather a limitation of the filter to "read" available RAM. I would send a message to the filter manufacturer (if not freeware).

FWIW, older applications will often be "intelligently programmed" to check for sufficient RAM or disk space before installing. I have had programs tell me that 100 gigs of free space was insufficient room to install their puny program that was written under old operating system overheads.
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Psychic StickleBrick
Dec 17, 2003
—– Original Message —–
From: "mdavis"

Sounds like the problem isn’t within PS but rather a limitation of the filter to "read" available RAM. I would send a message to the filter manufacturer (if not freeware).
But this is happening with many filters built-in to Photoshop CS. Filters->Distort->Glass, Filters->Texture->Patchwork etc. (as well as some from flaming pear.)
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Alberich
Dec 17, 2003
In article <brpkn5$fh7$>,
says…
—– Original Message —–
From: "mdavis"

Sounds like the problem isn’t within PS but rather a limitation of the filter to "read" available RAM. I would send a message to the filter manufacturer (if not freeware).
But this is happening with many filters built-in to Photoshop CS. Filters->Distort->Glass, Filters->Texture->Patchwork etc. (as well as some from flaming pear.)
This better be addressed in a bug fix because until THEN, I have no intention of buying Photoshop CS.
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Stephan
Dec 31, 2003
"Alberich" wrote in message
In article <brpkn5$fh7$>,
says…

This better be addressed in a bug fix because until THEN, I have no intention of buying Photoshop CS.

Never buy the new version right away, always wait for .01. 6 and 7 came on the market unfinished I guess CS is going to be the same. Adobe has a lot of customers ready to pay $600 for the privilege of being a "tester"

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