Photoshop CS3 Lags or Stalls Frequently

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Super_Sharpie
Jul 24, 2008
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Photoshop and Illustrator CS3 just stop working every five to ten minutes for periods of about 10 to 20 seconds. Photoshop palettes and windows all go blank if I click anywhere in the application space during these brownouts. Sometimes the entire system stops responding to the point all I can do is move the mouse around pointlessly.

After it does whatever it is doing the app suddenly snaps back to life and anything else I may have clicked in any application in the meantime instantly responds allsuddenlyatthesametime in a flurry of dialogs and actions. Often when Photoshop comes back the palettes have no titles and seem to have been corrupted and I have to restart the app.

It doesn’t seem to matter what I’m doing though I’m not entirely sure about that. Seems that it happens most when I try to use the brush tool or apply changes to text, but that may just be because I use those tools more than others.

I did a search on this and based on earlier solutions I will add that the only printer I have installed is the local Adobe PDF driver and I am not using a Logitech mouse. I’ve done a fresh install on a fresh XP SP3 and run the updater.. the problems are all the same. Anybody know any other conflicts?

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dave_milbut
Jul 24, 2008
try turning off font previews in the preferences and see if that helps.

and/or, if you’re using vista, make sure the aero interface is ON.

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