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 02/06/2008 03:32:48 PM · #1
i am suffering from cs3 blues, since getting my 5d it takes ages for photoshop to do anything... i have adjusted my preferences and got more ram.. 2.5 gig to be precise and i have got another scratch disk... does anyone know of any tweaks to speed it all up... or a link. help as i fear that i am gonna waste my life looking at a blank screen!!!
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 02/06/2008 03:42:31 PM · #2
Overclock your cpu.
 02/06/2008 03:46:29 PM · #3
id only do that if there was a software program that would just do it... cant be fiddling with bios i need a stable puter???? any sugg
 02/06/2008 03:50:01 PM · #4
would help to know more info about your computer - processor, HD specs, etc.
 02/06/2008 04:00:23 PM · #5
Also ... where do you see the slow down? What, specifically, are you trying to do when PS is not as responsive as you would like? (a generic answer like "all of it" won't help us help you)

02/06/2008 04:02:30 PM · #6
amd athlon 64 3.2, one 160gig hd and one 80 er.. 2.5 gig of ram er vista pro cs3 er inbuilt radeon xpress 2 g/card.. that enough?
 02/06/2008 04:04:19 PM · #7
Originally posted by itch:
amd athlon 64 3.2, one 160gig hd and one 80 er.. 2.5 gig of ram er vista pro cs3 er inbuilt radeon xpress 2 g/card.. that enough?


it's probably your vista that's slowing everything down. damn vista!
 02/06/2008 04:04:38 PM · #8
its when im converting raw files and also if im combining pano's in photomerge... i know this is a process which is time consuming but its really slow. i have stopped working in 16bit as this was ridiculously slow. then stuff like sharpening in smart sharpen takes ages too.
 02/06/2008 04:12:37 PM · #9
its your graphics card most likely, the Radeon Xpress2, im assuming you mean 200 is the motherboard used on the computer. right click on the desktop and go properties> the settings tab> click the advance button> and click the Adapter button, whats the Adapter information?
 02/06/2008 04:16:24 PM · #10
I take it you have many gigs of free hard disk space and photoshop knows about it right (i.e. listed as a scratch disk in preferences)? What you don't want is it having use of the main hard drive partition. Even better is to have multiple hard drives but if you don't have that at least have it use a different partition than the one the operating system uses. Also, how much ram are you devoting to Photoshop? I have mine set to 55% and CS3 does crawl from time to time when I'm working with large files with lots of layers.

Message edited by author 2008-02-06 16:17:32.
 02/06/2008 04:18:13 PM · #11
radeon xpress 200 series... its inbuilt in the motherboard
02/06/2008 04:20:22 PM · #12
how many mb is it?
 02/06/2008 04:22:15 PM · #13
it says 799 in the properties
02/06/2008 04:25:16 PM · #14
Originally posted by itch:
radeon xpress 200 series... its inbuilt in the motherboard


You need to get a seperate graphics card, so it frees up the memory the onboard uses:)
 02/06/2008 04:26:09 PM · #15
2.5 GB RAM seems like an odd number, sometimes having mismatched RAM sticks causes issues.

Is your hard drive full?
 02/06/2008 04:27:28 PM · #16
could be two gig actually.. my little bro changed it.... he did say he could put only so much in... hd half full and defragged regualrly
 02/06/2008 04:30:30 PM · #17
CPU Interface
AMD Sempron™, AMD Athlon™ 64 and AMD Athlon™ 64 FX processors
800MHz and 1GHz HyperTransport interface speeds

ok looked on ATI's website, the xpress200 is the motherboard, and the motherboard has a built in Radeon X300 which comes in 64-bit or 128-bit so judging by that id have to say get a new gfx card using the builtin chipset gfx card is slowing you down drasticly and could make the effect that the 2.5gig of ram you have seem like 512mb of ram if the gfx card cant process the higher speeds

Message edited by author 2008-02-06 16:30:54.
 02/06/2008 04:31:50 PM · #18
Originally posted by itch:
could be two gig actually.. my little bro changed it.... he did say he could put only so much in...


I would check the RAM, make sure all the sticks are the same speed and capcity.

RAM is uber cheap these days, I just bought 4GB (2x2GB) fro my notebook for $99 at Fry's
 02/06/2008 04:37:22 PM · #19
My advise would to be to check out a new GFX card for the machine, when my neighbor picked up his dell i remember his having a Radeon x300 in it and that was about the time battlefield 2 came out and he could run the game with everything on low and 800x600 resolution and his framerate was terrible, its a good card for a standard computer but for performance it lacks the power.

Message edited by author 2008-02-06 16:38:03.
 02/06/2008 04:38:27 PM · #20
cool thanks
02/06/2008 06:04:09 PM · #21
video card has nothing to do with processing images in Photoshop (only for the redraw)

set your history to 10, set your image cache to 8 and alocate 75% of RAM to PS
 02/06/2008 07:10:14 PM · #22
Originally posted by Bobster:
video card has nothing to do with processing images in Photoshop (only for the redraw)


so if i put my 4mb rageII in my comp it will run cs3 the same as if i have a 128mb radeon 9700 pro?

Message edited by author 2008-02-06 19:10:45.
 02/06/2008 07:16:54 PM · #23
Originally posted by Bobster:
video card has nothing to do with processing images in Photoshop (only for the redraw)

set your history to 10, set your image cache to 8 and alocate 75% of RAM to PS


It's true that PS isn't video intensive, however when using an on-board graphics card, part of the RAM is dedicated 100% to the graphics card, and the CPU has to do pretty much all the rendering work. A separate graphics card, even a cheaper one, is a good idea.
 02/06/2008 08:05:07 PM · #24
Originally posted by LanndonKane:
it's probably your vista that's slowing everything down. damn vista!


Vista Lite
 02/06/2008 08:22:50 PM · #25
Generally most on-board stuff is very basic - get a cheap gfx card for a start. Don't bother with more RAM as there's absolutely no evidence to support spending the extra money (spend it on a gfx card instead) - unless you can see that you're paging heavily and running out of RAM. Also some say that the upper limit is 3gb RAM (not 4) but it's contentious.

If you want to speed things up generally, get a Raptor 37gb 10k drive and use that as your main system drive with OS and pagefile on it. Keep your existing 160gb drive as your data and application drive. Place CS3 scratchdisk on 47gb, app on 160gb and see how you get on. If you're removing Vista anyway to put on XP you'll have a nice opportunity to do it. If you really want to go mental get two raptors and stripe them.

But first place would be to disable the on-board gfx and put a cheap but semi-decent dedicated card in. If it's still slow, check memory usage. If it's still slow, rip out Vista, install raptor drive, install XP. Check memory usage again. Should be fine..if not, add memory (but I seriously doubt it unless you're using monster files).

Also make sure gfx and indeed all device drivers are up to date. One shonky one can cause all kinds of grief and slowness. Virii and malware can also slow things down. Google Indexing service (picasa and anything else) can also be a bugger for system resources.

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