Photoshop 6 running like crap on my setup...

Jugernot

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Oct 12, 1999
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I just got Photoshop 6 and it is almost unusable in its current form. Here is the relavent hardware:

Windows 2000 Pro
Duron 600 at 900MHz
Abit KT7 Raid
384megs of PC100 (running at 133MHz, PCI clk + FSB clk)
Voodoo 3 2000 AGP
20gig Seagate Baracuda ATA66

My problem is simple, PS6 runs like crap! I'm experiencing some major screen redraw problems. I can minimize PS6 and then maximize it and it will take a good 5-6 seconds just to begin redrawing the tool, history, etc windows. Also, I can click the top file, edit, etc menu and it will take around two seconds before it depressed and displays the menu. Anyone else running into this? I have been running PS5 on this hardware with absolutely NO problems for over 4 months.

To me it feels like a video problem because it isn't accessing my hard drive for scratch disk info and I still have around 150megs of memory free when running PS6. It is sucking up virtual memory, but nothing that PS5 didn't do.

Any ideas!!

btw: I have tried using the newest V3 drivers with no improvement.
 

Adul

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Oct 9, 1999
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I have not run across the problems you stated. Been running Photoshop 6 since it came out. If you think it is driver problem, then try the latest WHQL drivers from 3dfx