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07/13/2005 10:45:04 PM · #1 |
I have two questions concerning Photoshop CS2:
1. Now that I have CS2 installed, can I uninstall PS7 and delete its folder from the Adobe Programs Files folder? CS2 is installed in a seperate Adobe folder.
2. Have some of you noticed a PC performance decrease using CS2? CS2 seems to task my system much more than PS7 ever did. Seems to take a while to get anything done. Slow as hell. All my other software seems to run fine, just as usual. Not sure if any of this info helps:
Total Physical Memory 512.00 MB
Available Physical Memory 339.34 MB
Total Virtual Memory 2.00 GB
Available Virtual Memory 1.96 GB
Page File Space 1.22 GB
I know my hard-drive is getting kind of full: 5.6 GB left on a 40 GB drive. I am also doing editing on 16-bit files rather than on 8-bit files since I have been shooting in RAW since I got PS2.
Can anyone help with this? Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks
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07/13/2005 10:47:20 PM · #2 |
CS2 grinds and thinks and pokes along way more than my PS 6 ever did. It takes forEVER for some things to render or apply. Drives me nuts, but I guess it's worth it in the long run. I deleted PS 6 after installing CS2. If you find something that makes it speed up, let me know! :)
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07/13/2005 10:50:41 PM · #3 |
Most likely, CS2 is paging like crazy, and that is slowing it down. 512 is really very minimal memory for XP plus Photoshop CS, when you figure in all the other startup tasks that usually run.
You can try to minimize the number of things that run at startup, and also try cleaning up and defrragmenting the drive. You're really quite dangerously low on drive space. You might consider two internal drives, and run the page file on one and your files on another. I'd strongly recommend going to at least 1GB of memory. That's where I'm at, and I don't consider it really enough. I'm trying to hold off adding until I build a new system though...
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07/13/2005 10:50:54 PM · #4 |
PS7 has speed up since adding more RAM and now using a separate harddrive for the scratch disk on my Pentium II.
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07/13/2005 11:16:42 PM · #5 |
I have two hard drives on my PC: a 40 GB drive that runs software (7 GB left) and a 120 GB drive fro archiving (78GB left). Should I have the scratch disk running off the 120GB drive? My image files (original and edited) are on the larger drive.
Message edited by author 2005-07-13 23:22:34.
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07/13/2005 11:49:21 PM · #6 |
May I please also ask a question on PS CS2...
When I opned the file browser on my 'old' CS, all I had to do was dubble click on a pic-nail and it would open in CS. Now with CS2 I have to drag-n-drop... is there anyplace where I can change somthing so that it opens with the dubble click?
Sorry, do not mean to highjack, just a very nagging question which I know there must be a simple answer for. |
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07/13/2005 11:51:25 PM · #7 |
Originally posted by gibun:
May I please also ask a question on PS CS2...
When I opned the file browser on my 'old' CS, all I had to do was dubble click on a pic-nail and it would open in CS. Now with CS2 I have to drag-n-drop... is there anyplace where I can change somthing so that it opens with the dubble click?
Sorry, do not mean to highjack, just a very nagging question which I know there must be a simple answer for. |
I just double click a thumb in the bridge to open it in CS2. I didn't change anything so that must be the default. Maybe one of the preferences controls this.
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07/14/2005 07:43:40 AM · #8 |
| Thanks I will see if I see anything. I dubble click in my bridge but to no avail. Must be a setting somwhere. |
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07/14/2005 10:25:03 AM · #9 |
Originally posted by Beagleboy:
Should I have the scratch disk running off the 120GB drive? |
i have always had way better luck when the scratch disk is a different disk from the one the application runs from.
i don't think it matters that you save your files to the same disk as the scratch disk -- it's just using part of your hard drive as memory to speed up what it's doing.
but, then again, i can make a computer do a lot of things. i don't understand how it does it. :) |
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07/14/2005 11:21:45 AM · #10 |
Originally posted by Beagleboy:
Total Physical Memory 512.00 MB |
You definitely need more memory! If you do a lot of multi-tasking (i.e. have your browser and email program running concurrently while you are working in Photoshop, along with background programs like virus scanners, MP3 players, etc.), I'd recommend 2GB of memory. It makes a big difference in performance.
Turn on the "Efficiency" statistic in the status bar. (Click on the "right arrow" at the bottom of the window, next to the space that normally displays the document sizes and choose "Efficiency" from the menu.) Any time that number drops below 100%, Photoshop had to use "virtual memory", which severely degrades performance.
Message edited by author 2005-07-14 11:24:35. |
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07/14/2005 11:43:01 AM · #11 |
I have 1GB RAM and it does run a tad slower than CS1. What I found to help was to close the "info" window. That helped a bit. :)
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07/26/2005 02:07:58 PM · #12 |
I was just researching on Photoshop CS2 trying to decide if I would upgrade or not and I read the following:
Less Memory Left Over: They upped the Memory &
Image Cache Preferences (from 50 to 70%) so Photoshop CS2
uses 20% more memory.
Check out:
Ben WillmoreĆ¢s Cure for CS2 Upgrade Vertigo
Where's My Stuff
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