Paul, I think you may have hit the nail on the head. Photoshop was set to use a maximum of like 900 some megs of RAM when there was almost twice that much available. We've since upped the RAM and we'll see how that does...
From: Paul Hutchings [mailto:paul.hutchi...@mira.co.uk] Sent: Friday, March 11, 2011 3:17 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Upgrade O/S or GPU? Try some basic housekeeping first to ensure the PC is in good order and check within Photoshop what the various scratch disk settings are its been a while but I seem to remember that in Photoshop you specifically configure areas of disk for it to use as scratch space OK the machine may not be the quickest but my gut is, from your post, something is configured wrongly rather than a simple its not got enough grunt particularly if his usage hasnt really changed but its started doing it recently. From: John Aldrich [mailto:jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com] Sent: 10 March 2011 19:44 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Upgrade O/S or GPU? Our marketing guy is having problems with his PC. He says it works fine until he fires up Photoshop to do some 3D rendering and then it goes for awhile but crashes before its done with an out of memory error. The PC in question has a Pentium D CPU, and CPUZ says that its a 64-bit capable processor, so theoretically it could upgrade to a 64-bit OS (currently running XP Pro 32-bit) but Im wondering if a better, higher-end graphics card might be of more use? The current graphics card is a GeForce 7300LE with 512 Mb RAM on-board. The PC has 3 Gigs of RAM, which is pretty much all that can be addressed by a 32-bit O/S. Im guessing that the video card would be the least expensive option, but Id rather fix the problem the first time, and I dont know what the real solution is . Thanks! ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ________________________________________ MIRA Ltd Watling Street, Nuneaton, Warwickshire, CV10 0TU, England Registered in England and Wales No. 402570 VAT Registration GB 100 1464 84 The contents of this e-mail are confidential and are solely for the use of the intended recipient. If you receive this e-mail in error, please delete it and notify us either by e-mail, telephone or fax. You should not copy, forward or otherwise disclose the content of the e-mail as this is prohibited. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
