CS2 Help

[patrickj]

well I recently switched from 7 to CS2 and I ran into a very serious dillema.

The problem I have is that whenever Itry to do graphics in photoshop it goes REALLY S..L..O..W and I was wondering why. I was hoping I could come here and get some help before I go and switch back to 7. And i will post my system specs below.

Anyways I would really appreciate ANY help, and thanks in advance.

Specs:
Intel Celeron D 2.4 Ghz
ATi Radeon 9200 SE
768 MB DDR-400 RAM
Windows XP Home

[JaCkinbOx]

Beats me. My specs aren't quite that good and I don't have much of a problem with it lagging.

[JaCkinbOx]

Did you try defragging your computer yet?

[vtwin_gary]

you shouldn't have any problems with the setup.
check your scratch disk, when i 1st installed cs2 it found my external drive & assigned it as my scratch...holy cow talk about slow....
someone else may be able to help but you probably won't get many hits on the thread untill monday morning. things are generly slow here on the weekends.
good luck & let us know what you figure out.

[vtwin_gary]

oh... & welcome to GDF

[dana]

A real shot in the dark... could the amount of RAM assigned to Photoshop have been altered when Illy CS2 was installed? Also, I think the de-frag suggestion is good. Your problem reeks of insufficient memory and Photoshop, as a result, could be reverting to its scratch disk instead of "assigned" memory.

[patrickj]

by defragging do you mean defragging my HDD through windows?

also, whats my scratch disk?

[vtwin_gary]

do you have more than one hard drive installed?
or maybe a usb drive ?
your scratch disk setup can be found by going to (from cs2) edit / preferences / scratch disk
that's if you are running a pc if you have a mac...i don't know but i'm sure its close to the same

[patrickj]

well I have one HD and one USB drive connected, should i remove the usb drive?

[Ghastly]

also, whats my scratch disk?

To simplify things it's like using your hardrive as a note book when your computer can't remember any more facts

when performing something that is ram intensive...your hard drive is used to store information temporarily...(I'm not a hardware guru btw so my explaination may be a wee bit off)

[vtwin_gary]

make sure that cs2 isn't trying to use your usb drive as the scratch.
that is exactly what happened to me
yes this will make things VERY slow.

[patrickj]

well I changed my scratch disk from Startup to C:\ and it did NOTHING

[vtwin_gary]

hmmm.
in the same area check & see hom much ram photoshop is using.
it should be no more than about 50%

[patrickj]

it says its using 55%

[PrintDriver]

When was the last time you defragged your c drive and how much of that drive is still available for storage? If you don't have enough space on your c drive or photoshop has to hunt and search for a spot big enough to park data, that will definitely slow things down.

I usually partition my main drive on any comp I rig for myself (NOTE: If you do that EVERYTHING ON THE DRIVE WILL BE ERASED!!!) and assign 15 to 20 gigs for scratch/current project storage (more if drive is big). That makes scratch readily available, fast, and anything I'm working on is right there (plus OSX has a tendency to crash once or twice a year so I keep that on a separate partition to make reload easy and minimize file loss).

[patrickj]

well, i defragged my C drive yesterday and it has 28 Gigs free, and it is my current scratch disk

[Vikia]

Maybe try these guys:The Adobe Evangelists (http://www.adobeevangelists.com/)