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By: Sebastiaan

Sebastiaan — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 08:29:50 +0000

@Peter: Already tried that
Didn’t work, but 2GB works good.

I only have 4 memory slots.
And my motherboard supports up to 8GB.
Its the ‘Asus Maximus Extreme’ with ‘GeiL 3 GB DDR3-1333 Tri-Kit’.
Changed various BIOS settings, did not work either. The booting process hangs at INIT USB.

Maybe someday with windows 7 I will get 4GB or so. For now it works.

By: Rasmus

Rasmus — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 15:53:05 +0000

@Barry: hah, thanks, I appreciate the thought. Downloading paint.NET as we speak, gonna try it out.

@Xander: HAHA! I do that too and I hate it! It’s so easy to tell that you’ve clicked the “wrong” button, cause it’s the only tool that freezes everything.

@Danny: And I bet YOU’RE the one who told them, right?! TRAITOR! D:

By: Danny Burleson

Danny Burleson — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 15:35:49 +0000

Clearly, Rasmus, the true answer to this problem is that Adobe is on to you and have sent an “update”: http://glitchtown.com/2009/07/marwho/

By: Xander

Xander — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 14:56:36 +0000

I know the feeling, I cringe every time I accidentally hit the T key when mashing my keyboard for the right tool, and it freezes on me. I always know what it is. Grr.

By: Barry Buchanan

Barry Buchanan — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 14:53:09 +0000

Funny when geeks flex the old muscles. Truth is PS is just amemory hog regardless of Windows or Mac. More memory is better of course. I wish you were in the US Rasmus as I’d hook you up with at least more memory. I come across a lot parts and older systems in my work and daily life. You should check out Paint.net, I use it for everything but it does not have as many functions as PS of course but it is useful and uses low resources. I think you’d like it but will go back to PS before long tho.

By: Peter

Peter — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 11:48:22 +0000

Nah, 3 Gb thing is a problem of Windows 32-bit OSes unable to address more than 3.14 GB of RAM. Even if you put 4 Gb in your system, it should boot normally, but the Windows will report only 3.14 Gb and not 4.
Sebastiaan, what you are talking about was a hardware incompatibility – I’d suggest either disabling dual channel or move the DIMMs in the slots. And if nothing helps – you can always open your motherboard manual and find what was wrong

By: Sebastiaan

Sebastiaan — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 11:27:30 +0000

Don’t make it to low 40% is good. But Photoshop uses 60 to 80 by default.
But I can’t remember if it was an speed or stability I had that was solved with this tweak.

@Peter: And also look at the speed, slow memory is killing.
And make sure the motherboard supports the speed.

I even heard that 32Bit supports 4GB maximum.
But that seems to variate between systems.
3GB may not always work, I bought 3GB of ram and the system hangs while at the BIOS state. 2GB no problem.
This is DDR3 memory so maybe that is different with DDR2 and SDRAM.

By: Rasmus

Rasmus — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 08:59:56 +0000

@Sebastiaan: Wouldn’t lowering its memory usage make it even slower? :b

@Peter: ~~This motherboard can only utilize up to 1066 mb, if I’m not wrong :/~~ (HAHAHA DISREGARD THAT etc.) I’ll invest in my own computer soon enough though.

By: Peter

Peter — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 08:44:15 +0000

Rasmus, the RAM is dirt cheap now, so try to stick as much as your computer will take ( up to 3 Gb if you are using 32 bit OS ) – it is really the cheapest and easiest upgrade one can do to a computer.

By: Sebastiaan

Sebastiaan — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 08:22:41 +0000

Try to lower the memory usage configuration of Photoshop.
Edit -> Preference -> Performance. Most times Photoshop tries to use as much as it can :p

Even with 2 GB of memory it does this tings

I now have very fast system, and even then Photoshop is slow in these things. I guess that you need at least 8 GB of memory and Quad Core 3 Ghz… on an 64 bit OS.