Photoshop 4.0 on XP

Robby,

That can refer to free disk space. How much room do you have on your C:\ drive? Until you have opened PS and set the scratch drive(s) it will use the C:\ drive as its scratch. If there isn’t enough free space there, you will see that error.

The hard drive has a minimum of 20GB free. Thanks.

You cannot run PS4 on XP. Time to upgrade!

sure you can.

Yeah Dave. How?

many people here have said they’re running it. most say they need the 4.01 update. do a forum search.

Well if that works, then the problem will be getting the updater if he doesn’t have it. They have a Spanish updater, but not an English one.

Hello

You do need 4.01, but you must also set your Windows pagesys file to min 256 and max 1536, or something like that, depending on how much RAM you have. I use that setting with 1GB of RAM.

Mike Engles

then the problem will be getting the updater if he doesn’t have it

true. i’ve seen users offer to mail it to other users. someone was hosting it for a while there, but i forget who…

Hi! I’m a newbie to the forum and PhotoShop. My wife uses it *extensively* on a Mac for business, and I’ve started using 4.0 on my Wintel machine. Like Robby, I recently upgraded from Win98SE to WinXP Pro, and I’m getting the same error message. Did a Google search of the web (including Warez sites) and updater files are either no longer there or German or Spanish. Can I get some help on the English 4.01 updater files?

Thanks in advance!

Hello

Here it is.http://www.btinternet.com/~mike.engles/mike/ps401udt.zip Also contains a MMXcore.

My setting for the Windows page file.sys is
Initial size 256 MB and Max 1534. I have 1 GB of ram.
If it does not work, you will have to experiment.

To find the page file
Rightclick on My Computer/properties/advanced/performance/advanced/virtual memory. It is best to have the page file on its own drive,separate fro Photoshops.

Mike Engles

you’re a good man mike! 🙂

I loaded 4.0.1 and the new mmxcore and it’s working. Thank you for all your help.

rob

Cheers to you Mike! Well Done!

glad to hear rob! most excellent mike!

I have Photoshop 4.0.1 on XP with 2 monitors (matrox550 card, 1g ram, 2.6 p4)

My question is I can move the photoshop window and working picture onto screen 2 but none of the pallets. (Painter 5.5 has similar prob) The only advice I can get is that if its a MS DOS prog then it cannot utilise the two screens.

Because PS4 is a Win 95 program and the fact half of it does display over two screens I’m trying to confirm that this is a problem only corrected by an upgrade to XP compatable software?

please tell me there is a patch or something!
Cheers, Ed.

Hey Eddie:

Very similar situation with my new HP Media Center. Installed your update and installed the MMX Core… AWESOME fix. I was so afraid I was going to have to spend the $600 for PS 7.

THANK YOU!

I was so afraid I was going to have to spend the $600 for PS 7

Why? The upgrade [to PS CS] is more like $150.

Same problem, and the fix worked for me too. Thank you. Long time satisfied PS 4 customer.

RC,
Try the following fix below. I had the same problem that you are experiencing. I downloaded the zip file and replaced the MMXcore file and now have my Photoshop 4 back (well, I was able to upgrade to 5 after the fix)

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Here it is.http://www.btinternet.com/~mike.engles/mike/ps401udt.zip Also contains a MMXcore.

My setting for the Windows page file.sys is
Initial size 256 MB and Max 1534. I have 1 GB of ram.
If it does not work, you will have to experiment.

To find the page file
Rightclick on My Computer/properties/advanced/performance/advanced/virtual memory. It is best to have the page file on its own drive,separate fro Photoshops.