Posted: Sat Feb 04, 2012 5:49 pm Post subject: HELP! Can anyone help with photoshop lagging?
Hey! I'm running cs5 which works beautifully on my fun computer but not as great on my day-job computer (which is the one equipped with the double monitors, so much better for photoshopping!) but anyway, on my work computer, I can run beautifully for a while, then everything starts to lag, so badly that a brush stroke takes 20 or 30 seconds to show up, and then doesn't even follow the path that I had indicated. I'm not using a tablet or anything, just the mouse. If I close photoshop and start it back up again, everything works nicely for a while, then back to lag.
Does this indicate a lack of ram? I have onboard video on my motherboard, but I do intend to upgrade to an actualy card at somepoint.
I assume that something is being all used up (maybe the scratch disk is full? Although I haven't gotten that dreaded error) Is there a way to clear some cache or something that would have the same effect as restarting photoshop?
If I'm upgrading, what should focus on? RAM, Video Card?
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Location: Oklahoma PS Version: photoshop cs5 OS: win7 pro 64 bit, i7-3.2g, GTS 450,
Posted: Sat Feb 04, 2012 7:39 pm Post subject:
hi,
it really hard to give a reply since don't know nothing about your two systems don't know specs or os's your using .... ram or cpu speed, opengl or not, etc etc ....
at best, without info i can only take educated guess(s) and make assumptions.... but here goes...
1. win xp would commonly have issue's like this after long sessions .. sometimes adding more ram and disabling needless startup can helpbut alotof time just a reboot what it takes...
the win xp caches were notorius of filling up and causing slowdowns and if that the case only a reboottook care of that..
2. now with ps ...I would look at your pref's .. and make sure your not using anymore cache than neccessary and that you have assigne a appropriate amount of ram for ps ...
3. as far as the scratch disk.... possiblity but you gave no info....
in general, and this helps all the time in many ways
a. purge your internet cache,delete tmp files and DEFRAG!!!
b. disable all needless startups... this will regain you some precious ram (if your short to begin with) system will have improve performance!! you be surprised all those startups how much they can hurt performance and stability ..
c. I know with my old winxp system before strting a large projects... i turn off all startup and do a freshboot..... did wonders... but with my win 7 i don't seem to need to do that..
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Posted: Sun Feb 05, 2012 4:18 am Post subject:
If you have a 64bit version of Photoshop, stuff it with as much RAM as it can handle, but make sure you buy decent RAM, nothing too shoddy.
As to your current problem, it does sound RAM or resource led. What % do you have given over to PS in the preferences/performance tab? Do you have any other options like OpenGL Drawing ticked in the check box? _________________ If life serves you lemons, make lemonade!
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