On Behalf Of Michael Wilkinson > > Ive not upgraded to CS but wonder if those experiencing > slowing down problems ( The self funding beta testers ! ) > are using dedicated scratch discs of sufficient size / speed > ? I recall Richard Kenward experiencing similar problems in > PS7 and the cure was a pair of fast Scusi disks paired up in > a raid array as a dedicated scratch disk. >
I found scratch disk to be critical for PhotoShop CS. Also, plain-and-simple free disk space. I made the mistake of installing the whole Creative Suite and Macromedia Studio MX 2004 at once. This sucked away disk space like crazy (possibly reducing Windows scratch disk space behind-the-scenes) and PS CS was taking nearly 4 minutes to start up <eek>. I had two SCSI disks on my dual-processor Windows system (it's old, but PS7 was OK with it for <50MB images), but the second disk could not be used as scratch as the second was mounted as a directory on the first... therefore it is not visible in the PS Scratch disk preferences. I added a dodgy old IDE disk to get access to a separate disk for scratch, and now PS CS loads in 10-30 seconds, depending on what else I am doing. A great improvement... but I'm one of those users used to running about 10 apps at once (graphics editing / web design etc etc so having power sucked up by these new apps is a frustration. Ho hum, hope the above is useful to someone, I'm considering a modern dual-processor system with more memory etc. Nij =============================================================== GO TO http://www.prodig.org for ~ GUIDELINES ~ un/SUBSCRIBING ~ ITEMS for SALE
