> Recently upgraded to 3GB RAM, which is clearly shown when viewing SYSTEM in > WIN XP. > I've already checked with system builder and the motherboard will > accommodate up to 4GB. > > However when setting Preferences in PShop 7 I am told that there is 1.777GB > available for Pshop and "how much do I want to allocate" ...... where has my > RAM gone ??
No app in a standard XP system can access more than 2GB RAM total. There is a way to boot XP so that the per-application max goes up to 3GB, but Photoshop can't use it anyway. CS behaves the same way. The advantage you'll get from having 3GB RAM instead of 2GB is slight unless you run other big apps, in which case Photoshop can use about 2GB and the other apps and the OS can make use of the other GB. Russell =============================================================== GO TO http://www.prodig.org for ~ GUIDELINES ~ un/SUBSCRIBING ~ ITEMS for SALE
