"not enough memory (RAM)" error message: need help

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BobChapman
Jul 5, 2007
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I repeatedly get an error message in CS2 when I am trying to load a picture into CS2, as follows: "Could not complete your request because there is not enough memory (RAM)". Can’t find anything by searching the Forums. This seems to happen more reliably when loading a .tif at 10MB, rather than a .jpg at say 2 MB. Hard to imagine why this should make a difference on a PC with 1.5 GB RAM!

It doesn’t happen all the time, but plenty of time enough to be a real irritant. Sometimes I re-boot and it goes away. Othertimes, like today, I can’t seem to make it go away.

I’m running CS2, Windows XP with all the latest upgrades/patches/etc., Dell 2.53 MHz desktop computer, 1.5 GB RAM. Commit charge is about 0.5 GB, so there should be 1 GB available for use.

Any ideas as to either what’s wrong or what I can do to get going again?

Thanks for any help
Bob Chapman

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chrisjbirchall
Jul 5, 2007
Make sure you’ve plenty of free space for your scratch disk, and keep Photoshop’s allocation down at (or below 55%
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rob
Jul 9, 2007
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I repeatedly get an error message in CS2 when I am trying to load a picture into CS2, as follows: "Could not complete your request because there is not enough memory (RAM)". Can’t find anything by searching the Forums. This seems to happen more reliably when loading a .tif at 10MB, rather than a .jpg at say 2 MB. Hard to imagine why this should make a difference on a PC with 1.5 GB RAM!

It doesn’t happen all the time, but plenty of time enough to be a real irritant. Sometimes I re-boot and it goes away. Othertimes, like today, I can’t seem to make it go away.

I’m running CS2, Windows XP with all the latest upgrades/patches/etc., Dell 2.53 MHz desktop computer, 1.5 GB RAM. Commit charge is about 0.5 GB, so there should be 1 GB available for use.

Any ideas as to either what’s wrong or what I can do to get going again?
Thanks for any help
Bob Chapman

What percentage RAM have you allocated in CS2 preferences?

I have 90% and have always used that in CS2 and CS3.

Its not the ram still available but whats allocated for use in PS.

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