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Photoshop 6 running like crap....

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Jugernot

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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.
 
Did you set your preferences to allocate more ram for photoshop?

I have photoshop 6.0 and I don't notice any decrease in load times or screen redraws.
 
It's definitely not the video card... I have the same one 🙂

Even the Adobe engineers are kinda confused as to why on some PC's it works fine when on others have some bad issues. They are currently working on a patch, but they are not sure when it will be released.

I must admit, they did get Illustrator 9.0 patch fairly quick... and that was a :Q 19MB patch :Q

This may sound bizzar (if you have the time), mail them your entire computer :Q They will put a head engineer on it and come up with a fix. For a time there, they were "quietly" asking some people to do just that...

 
When you saw screen redraw problems, do you mean each control item on the screen disappears one at a time when you close the program?

If that's the case, I have that same experience too. And it's not because I have a slow system. My home system is fast with 384 MB of ram.

When I am saving for the web, another app is opened. It opens fast and the calculations are done pretty quickly. However, when I try to close that particular window, it doesn't close right away. Instead, it slowly removes one control from the screen at a time until every control disappears and then closes. This looks like eye candy that Adobe purposely programmed, but to me, it is a pain in the ass.

How do you turn this damn "feature" off?
 
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