Following some off-list interest in the remedy I was given by an Adobe engineer in San Jose, I have copied below his suggestion.
It works a treat.My CS now goes like a rocket! Jonathan Coleman Cavendish Studios Chester This from Adam Jerugim: Jonathan, I'm the guy that's doing the bulk of performance testing for Photoshop, so I'd like to see if we can figure out a way to improve your systems's performance. First of all you should try moving the memory slider down incrementally, to see if that improves performance (85% might still be too high). Also, I saw the following post to the user-to-user forums, and was wondering if you've played with your virtual memory settings: http://www.adobeforums.com/cgi-bin/[EMAIL PROTECTED]@.2ccfd051/10 Jeff Anduza - 07:35pm Feb 17, 2004 Pacific (# 10 of 11) I found the solution: The problem was with virtual memory, specifically the paging file was fragmented. This was not an issue with applications other than Photoshop. (The OS would really write the page file when Photoshop was minimized). This was fixed by changing the paging file's location from my main drive to my scratch drive, and then back to the main drive. In addition I changed the size of the page file from 1.5 times RAM to 2 times RAM (3GB to 4GB). The entire system improved, dramatically, but I never would have noticed without Photoshop running. Hope this helps. Microsoft had this article available: http://www.microsoft.com/WindowsXP/expertzone/columns/mcfedries/03june16.asp =============================================================== GO TO http://www.prodig.org for ~ GUIDELINES ~ un/SUBSCRIBING ~ ITEMS for SALE
