Photoshop CS performance

I just wondered if anyone else is suffering out there with Photoshop CS's performance. I work in an architects practice on Win 2K and XP - PC's are largely 3.06Ghz Pentium 4 processors, 1.5Gb RAM 40GB Hard drive. Teams regularly produce 1Gb+ files on these machines with many layers. Photoshop 7.0 outperforms CS at working/processing these files. Could it be bad memory usage within CS?

with those specs it should be fine, Its all hunky dorry my end. my files go from about 40k to a gig plus.

I dont notice CS being any slower than 7.

Paul,

You certainly aren't the only one who has found CS slower..

Keith

Paul, some are having performance problems with PS CS, many are not. There are numerous threads concerning this, but here's one that might make a good starting place:

Grass Hopper "CS Bug / Complaint Department" 2/22/04 9:50pm </cgi-bin/webx?13/322>

Nick

THe first thing I would keep in mind is that CS uses much larger scratch files. So, you need to make sure it has more space and keep the free space on the scratch disk partition(s) contiguous.

Keith

I've been working using an Athlon 1Ghz with 512Mb of PC133. Photoshop 7 worked great. Photoshop CS is clunky and slow and oh my if you try to use the filter gallery! I upgraded about a month a go, but continued in photoshop 7 until a progect was finished just because I was so frustrated with the slowness. I don't understand why the same functions take longer. Progress Right??

Jim in Escondido, CA

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I just wondered if anyone else is suffering out there with Photoshop CS's

performance. I work in an architects practice on Win 2K and XP - PC's are largely 3.06Ghz Pentium 4 processors, 1.5Gb RAM 40GB Hard drive. Teams regularly produce 1Gb+ files on these machines with many layers. Photoshop
7.0 outperforms CS at working/processing these files. Could it be bad memory
usage within CS?

I have a question about the hard drive. What speed is it? (RPM and ATA 33/66/100/?)

It looks as if the drive is the slowest part of your machines.

I don't recall seeing any 40 gig drive being 7200 RPM ATA 100. Having just purchased a 250 gig drive, 7200 RPM, ATA 100 for $149 after rebate, I "re-did" my drive setup.

I saw a definite speed improvement when I replaced my 40 gig ATA either 33 or 66 with the "old" 80 gig ATA 100. (the 250 as device:0 IDE port:0 and the 80 as device:0 on IDE Port:1) This was with the trial edition of Photoshop 8/CS.

Bill, who does NOT work for (OR own stock in) OfficeMax which has the rebate.

People have found that increasing the Page File size in Windows does help performance.

See the post about it here:

dave milbut "Photoshop CS on XP Memory Caching" 2/17/04 8:31pm </cgi-bin/webx?13/10>

From the forum post:
Photoshop CS on XP Memory Caching #10
I found the solution:

The problem was with virtual memory, specifically the paging file was fragmented.

This was not an issue with applications other than Photoshop. (The OS would really write the page file when Photoshop was minimized).

This was fixed by changing the paging file's location from my main drive to my scratch drive, and then back to the main drive.

In addition I changed the size of the page file from 1.5 times RAM to 2 times RAM (3GB to 4GB).

The entire system improved, dramatically, but I never would have noticed without Photoshop running. Hope this helps.

Microsoft had this article available:
< http://www.microsoft.com/WindowsXP/expertzone/columns/mcfedr ies/03june16.asp>

I just purchased a new computer. My old one was a 1 GHz, with 256 megs RAM and 40 GB hard drive. My hard drive was not partitioned. Photoshop 7 performed very well. CS was much slower. On my new computer, with P4 3.0 GHz, with 1 GB RAM and
120 GB hard drive, I have created a Fat32 partition for Windows pagefile (4 GB), and a partition for Photoshop scratch (10 GB),
and now CS performs very well. Based on some of the other comments, I may increase the pagefile itself, and the drive it's on, if needed. I also use a little program called "Page Defrag" occasionally. www.sysinternals.com I'm no expert, but this set-up is working
very well for me.

Leppod~

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I just wondered if anyone else is suffering out there with Photoshop CS's

performance. I work in an architects practice on Win 2K and XP - PC's are largely 3.06Ghz Pentium 4 processors, 1.5Gb RAM 40GB Hard drive. Teams regularly produce 1Gb+ files on these machines with many layers. Photoshop
7.0 outperforms CS at working/processing these files. Could it be bad memory
usage within CS?