Speed up Photoshop using RAMShop if you have more than 2G RAM and use XP.

Ajax

Saw this great article about using the RAM that windows XP can't. By nature, the 32 bit OS is limited to ~2.5GB of RAM, so if you have 4GB (or more than 2.5) installed, it's not being used.

RAMShop allows you to allocate that unused RAM as a RAM disk and let photoshop use it as the swap disk. Much faster than traditional HD!

Article on how to pull this off here: http://www.nerdblog.com/2009/05/ramdisk-for-photoshop-omg-fast.html?showComment=1241543160000#c6379604054199470041

RAMShop Pro has a 30 day free trial.

AnimeAngel

Very nice, I was looking for something that would make use of the extra ram I had and didn't want to upgrade to vista. thanks for the link

Ajax

Took a bit of finessing for me to get this running, the software he mentions didn't play nice at first with my copy of XP. Feels like running the Photoshop scratch disk off a SSD though once it gets going!

elte

How to use it? Seems like the manual isnt helping much, I've got 4gb in xp though

EarthQuake

I'm actually running XP 64, and 8 gigers of rams. But PS will only see 3.2 gigs of it, which is pretty annoying.

So if this works that may be very cool.

[edit] Actually this would probabbly be a bad idea to do on a 64 bit os, as it would keep that % of ram from other programs that may need it.

mLichy

Hmm... does this happen in Vista? I didn't check this out yet. I also have 8GB of ram. I know Mudbox 2009 can use all of it... heh... or does CS4 work differently? Using ram more than hdd?

AnimeAngel

no vista doesnt have the same limitations as xp

glib

AnimeAngel wrote: »

no vista doesnt have the same limitations as xp

What? I thought we were just talking about a 32-bit restriction here?

A 32-bit XP (or vista) system with 4GB will read as 2.5-3.5GB of ram once you're booted up.

dejawolf

i have my 6gb of ram read as 4.

elte

Don't know if it's a proper thread:

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