CGTalk - Eating all the ram

Kinjiru

05-29-2006, 04:06 PM

Hey guys,

When using photoshop CS2 on win, the more images you open and work on them, the more ram will fill. The problem is when closing the images (not the photoshop), the ram will keep at almost the same level.

Its a big hard since I have only 1G Ram. I need to close the photoshop every time I work on huge images.

Is there a way to dump the ram while having photoshop open?

Thanks,

Rui

Jaycee77

05-29-2006, 05:18 PM

You probably need to look at your settings on the scratch disk for Photoshop.

See here for the Adobe PS CS2 Knowledgebase regarding scratch disk allocation:

http://www.adobe.com/support/techdocs/320005.html

Kinjiru

05-30-2006, 09:16 AM

AbsolutionZero,

First of all, thanks for the time :)

I've read the article and my config is nice, but still got this problem. Well, I'll give a format C: and see how it looks :)

Take care,

Cheers!

miloshz

05-30-2006, 09:13 PM

tried to purge history/clipboard/...? reinstall win and PS or stick back to some older version. definitely CS2 sucks a big time.

Kinjiru

05-31-2006, 08:29 AM

miloshz,

Thanks for the answer :) Well, I dont think it will work since the history will vanish when closing the file. I can't use an early version due to the CS2 license.

Does this happens on a Mac? I'm gonna buy one, and I'm curious about it.

Thanks

miloshz

05-31-2006, 04:35 PM

CS2 behaves shitty on Mac too. well, a bit less. since version 5, photoshop suffers from major memory leaks. sometimes more, sometimes less.

can't you somehow change/trade your license?

theWOODman

06-01-2006, 01:16 AM

I second that. I use a G5 at work using Photoshop CS 2, but the PC I use at home is tons better. Mac still has a wierd paint brush problem as well. If you are working on a large image and use the paintbrush, if you have smoothing turned on with scattering, that will often times lock up Photoshop and you have to force quit.
I've tried finding solutions on the internet, but all I came up with is something to the effect of "yeah we know, but we're working on it".

Kinjiru

06-01-2006, 09:00 AM

-WOODY - and the Apple guys say "it just works"...lol.

Let's see if CS3 will improve that problem. I'm done with the PC's and I'm going for a Macbook Pro, but I will still wait a while until they solve some laptop major issues.
miloshz - hummm, but, but, I like CS2 :) lol. Well, I just stick with the "open - close - open" method and pray that they'll do something to change it.

Thanks for the comments :)

BlackStorm

06-05-2006, 03:47 AM

Hi
I think if you instal the PS CS2 To other hard drive Like D or E
will be better
Have a test :scream:

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