Photoshop CS2 - slow?
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We recently 'upgraded' to CS2 here at work from CS. Previously we had 7 I think and after going to CS I noticed a substantial performance difference. CS had some great features, but was slower. Now with CS2 I've noticed it's even slower!
Anyone else have this problem? Seems as though any workspace with just a few files open kills PS. I just had it lock up on me, a first for Photoshop in all my use.
Got a 3 GHz pent 4 with a gig of ram, more than enough to run the program just fine according to the box.
Anyone else have this problem? Seems as though any workspace with just a few files open kills PS. I just had it lock up on me, a first for Photoshop in all my use.
Got a 3 GHz pent 4 with a gig of ram, more than enough to run the program just fine according to the box.
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All your preferences will be in this location. You may have 7.0, 8.0, or 9.0 folders, depending on how many versions of photoshop you went through. "Application Data" is a hidden folder, so in windows explorer go to Tools>>Folder Options View>>Show hidden files and folders.
C:\Documents and Settings\(user name)\Application Data\Adobe\Photoshop\
Copy them all off to another place, so you have a backup. Then delete all the folders in C:\Documents and Settings\(user name)\Application Data\Adobe\Photoshop\
Start photoshop, and it should be a lot faster. You can them go to your backup, and copy over things like the Brushes.psp and Patterns.psp files to get your brushes and patterns back.
CS2? Anti-piracy software isn't installed. Hmm, interesting
I havent noticed any probs really myself,maybe loading the odd 3000x3000 image but i guess id lag as well
He advised me when I reformatted a couple of weeks ago to install PS7 and forget about CS2.....I just went against him anyway
John
Pyromania- I have no photoshop folder in my app data, just acrobat and updater.
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Well thats kind of odd. Another thing you can do is hold down Ctrl+Alt+Shift, then start photoshop. It should ask you if you want to delete your preferences. To backup everything, you could try searching for something like "Brushes.psp" and see if you find where photoshop is keeping your settings.
If it wasn't for the ability to shift windows outside the photoshop app border (a feature thats really helpful when you're working with two screens), I'd switch back to PS7.
changing brush size is really slow for me though, which a real pain in the arse.
I try to be like Switzerland as far as the PC/Mac wars go, so while I mostly use PC's, I appreciate the features & stability of OSX. There are simple rudimentary things in PS on the Mac that are just retarded slow. On my PC both at work and at home, super fast. I dont get it. Changing brush sizes being the most regular & obvious culprit. SO freakin annoying working on the Mac. I can count "One-Two" before it displays the updated cursor size, and its a practically new machine.
My PC isn't the best with only 256mb of ram, but what causes such a big performance drop-off?
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you are officially dropped from this conversation!!
Photoshop needs at least a gig of ram just to paint efficiently.
There are other outstanding issues to CS2 that i choose to hate, but for the most part since ive gotten that patch it hasnt been too bad.
Texturing and painting with complext brushes on large (2048 + multilayers) textures tends to get a little sluggish, but have since tried to revert back to minimalist layers to fix that.
Ive grown to love and hate cs2, but 9.01 seriously made that possible. It crashes about once a month on me, and when it does it is usually an awesome crash where i lose a bit of work... so i guess i can deal with that, since its awesome.
if you have a second hard drive or partition, try setting it as PS's scratch disk. Most of the memory photoshop uses is scratch iirc.
on another forum im in. i had the same thread. and a thing that resolved my problem was.. uninstalling the network printer that i had.. from that point. photoshop was ruuning smothly again.
* I go to Edit - Prefences - Memory & Image Cache:
Change the Memory Usage up to 60-70% but take into note that this will make less ram for other programs.
Then close / restart Photoshop 4 this to take effect.
& / or
* You can also go into the Plugg-Ins & Scratch Disks Minue and set the Second: to C:\ or which ever one is your
harddrive with the most space and this will use your hardrive to speed up processes.
Then close / restart Photoshop 4 this to take effect.
Hope this helps you ....nitzmoff
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In 2000 and XP The temporary files can be found in...
C:\Documents and Settings\[username]\Local Settings\Temp
They start with "~PST" and end with ".tmp".
You may have to change explorer settings to show hidden operating system files. I dont have cs2, but if you imported settings or have a profile, it's most likely in there.
@thnom: The minimum requirement for Photoshop CS2 is 320MB ram, so 256 MB is just not going to cut it. Adobe recommends at least 384MB, but there is nothing wrong with sticking with photoshop 6 of course.