Photoshop not seeing all of my installed RAM

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Neil_Burt
Nov 29, 2003
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I am currently using Photoshop CS on a Dell Dimension 450. I have 4 Gb Ram installed which the BIOS sees. Windows XP sees 3.7 Gb, and using any memory manager only shows 2GB available. Photoshop on the other hand only sees 1.77GB. I’d like to get Photoshop to see and use all of this RAM, and would prefer not to have to exchange my machine out for an Itanium based one whenever Intel comes out with one. Anybody else out there with this problem or found a solution?

Thanks.
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dave_milbut
Nov 29, 2003
PS only uses 2 gig of ram due to operating system limitations.
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LenHewitt
Nov 29, 2003
As Dave says, it won’t.

The 1.77 is the max you will get. – the other 0.33 is reserved for the program code as opposed to image data, and Photoshop just cannot see your other 2 gigs.
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Neil_Burt
Dec 1, 2003
Thanks guys. It sucks, you would thinke Adobe would of changed this from version 7 due to enlarged file sizes with 16 bit layering.
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dave_milbut
Dec 1, 2003
It sucks, you would thinke Adobe would of changed this from version 7 due to enlarged file sizes with 16 bit layering.

It’s… An… Operating… System… Limitation!
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Steve_Vesperman
Dec 1, 2003
Yeah, but you’d think Adobe would have fixed it. 😉
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matthew_hattie
Dec 1, 2003
Mate!
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Dirck_Van_Lieu
Dec 1, 2003
Would OF fixed it.
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graffiti
Dec 1, 2003
Would OF fixed it

Maybe they would OF if they could HAVE.
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dave_milbut
Dec 1, 2003
Shoulda, coulda, woulda. Mine!
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graffiti
Dec 1, 2003
Mate…no wait. It’s "Mine"
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Steve_Vesperman
Dec 1, 2003
Maite. 😉

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