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512 MB RAM still not enough

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4fingerwu1

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I was doing some photo shop work for the first time-
well when I cranked up the resolution it said that I didnt have enough memory -
I have 512MB PC2100 DDR
What is going on?
It said it was changing the allocation of my memory but that didnt seem to do anygood -
any ideas?
$FINGERWU
 
you might have done this, but if not, increase the size of your swap file. i remember compiling some half life maps once, and even simple maps required 512 mb ram plus 1 gig of virtual swap file :Q
 
In photoshop, go to

Edit > Preferences > Memory and Image Cache - Change the 'Maxiumum Memory Used By Photoshop' to something like 80%.. (maybe less if you run other big programs at the same time like FlashMX, or 3D Rendering programs..)

And go up to Plug-ins and Scratch Disks... and if you have a second harddrive, or even a second partition, create a scratch disk there. (Preferably a different disk then photoshop, as it will warn you next time you start up).

What resolutions are you working at? And what OS are you using? You may need to upgrade to 2K/XP if those tips dont help.

I can open a 500meg TIFF file, which is like 25,000x 25,000 (albeit very slowly) and it runs alright.. this is on my PII 400 with 256meg ram and XP. the Win2K kernal handles big files, like the ones photoshop uses MUCH MUCH better.
 
Yeah, try changing the scratch disk to a drive with alot of space. At one of my previous jobs, one of our engineers had to open a MASSIVE image (it was a very detailed satellite image map for land/environmental use). He didn't have enough memory or space on his existing hard drive so we had to install a new hard drive and let Photoshop use it as a scratch disk to finally be able to open the image. Took a few hours to open too IIRC 🙂
 
Photoshop blows because it prefers to use its own primitive memory management instead of relying on Windows to perform all memory operations like any other sane program does. That's why you have this problem. And I'm failry certain that the MacOS 7x/8x/9x primitive memory manager is the reason why it exists in the first place.

If you increase the memory allocation that the program uses you should fix your problem.
 
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