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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,
PsychicStickleBrick
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,
PsychicStickleBrick
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