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I recently got a 2.66 Mac Pro with 5Gb RAM, X1900 card, mainly motivated by wanting better responsiveness in Lightroom amd Aperture, which are now both transformed.
HOWEVER, I was also expecting to run CS2 in XP under Bootcamp, and have it be significantly faster that in OSX under Rosetta….NOT SO….at least so far, for me.
The problem seems to be RAM. XP in Bootcamp seems to only see 2 Gb of RAM, and less available of course to CS2. Many threads in the Apple Bootcamp forum saying the same.
My old G5 2×2 with 4.5 Gb ram did the Retouchartists test with (20 history) in 2 mins 15 secs. The Mac Pro under Rosetta does 2 mins 8secs, but CS2 in XP is just under 4 mins. Parallels is over the horizon of course.
There have been numerous reported tests showing CS2 in XP faster than Rosetta, but all the ones I can find are with the Intel mac having 2Gb RAM, so the RAM limit in Bootcamp wouldn’t come into it. Also Barefeats have reported that 10.4.8 speeded up Rosetta, so these "much faster in XP" need careful examination of the datum.
I fully expect that I will be able to speed up CS2 in Bootcamp. I have not tried the 3 Gb switch yet, though many have said it is not working. However it has a lot of ground to make up on Rosetta.
Also XP in Bootcamp with the 1900 card I cannot run my 30in ACD at full res unless the second (palette) monitor is unplugged… a further slowing down factor against XP.
The purpose of this post is twofold….
First to solicit any advice or encouragement about whether CS2 in Bootcamp can be made faster than a 5Gb Rosetta setup.
Second to pass on my experience for the benefit of anyone thinking along same lines.
Comments welcome!
Mike
HOWEVER, I was also expecting to run CS2 in XP under Bootcamp, and have it be significantly faster that in OSX under Rosetta….NOT SO….at least so far, for me.
The problem seems to be RAM. XP in Bootcamp seems to only see 2 Gb of RAM, and less available of course to CS2. Many threads in the Apple Bootcamp forum saying the same.
My old G5 2×2 with 4.5 Gb ram did the Retouchartists test with (20 history) in 2 mins 15 secs. The Mac Pro under Rosetta does 2 mins 8secs, but CS2 in XP is just under 4 mins. Parallels is over the horizon of course.
There have been numerous reported tests showing CS2 in XP faster than Rosetta, but all the ones I can find are with the Intel mac having 2Gb RAM, so the RAM limit in Bootcamp wouldn’t come into it. Also Barefeats have reported that 10.4.8 speeded up Rosetta, so these "much faster in XP" need careful examination of the datum.
I fully expect that I will be able to speed up CS2 in Bootcamp. I have not tried the 3 Gb switch yet, though many have said it is not working. However it has a lot of ground to make up on Rosetta.
Also XP in Bootcamp with the 1900 card I cannot run my 30in ACD at full res unless the second (palette) monitor is unplugged… a further slowing down factor against XP.
The purpose of this post is twofold….
First to solicit any advice or encouragement about whether CS2 in Bootcamp can be made faster than a 5Gb Rosetta setup.
Second to pass on my experience for the benefit of anyone thinking along same lines.
Comments welcome!
Mike
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