Photoshop CS3 brush freezes after time passes.

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yemor
Dec 9, 2007
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I’m getting an odd anomaly. I have a Core2 Extreme processor, 4GB ram (Win x32 sees 3GB of that) and have 85% of my RAM assigned to Photoshop.

Frequently when working on a file, generally about 25 to 75mb in size, the brush tool will just stall. If I move my mouse over the brush won’t follow. However, if I hold the SpaceBar down the brush Icon will jump over to the mouse position (which was unknown until the jump). If I want to move the brush again, I have to press SpaceBar to "unfreeze" it. I have scratch disks assigned to 3 other hard drives all with 100’s of GB of space. None of of the scratch disks are the same partition or drive as the Photoshop install.

If I reboot it will stop for awhile but then it returns. I have a 1 month old fresh OS install and have absolutely no other issues. I’ve uninstalled, rebooted and reinstalled CS3. No help. I also have the latest drives for my NVidia QuatroFX 3400 adapter.

Any ideas,

Rob

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Rob_Keijzer
Dec 9, 2007
Rob,

Have you tried backing the RAM usage temporarily to 50% and see what happens?

Also, how is virtual memory set? make that Min=Max=2x addressable RAM.

Rob

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