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We are running CS3 Design Premium Suite on Windows XP SP3 systems with 2 GB Ram, 512 MB NVidia (supported) video cards, 500 Watt power supplies, 150 GB hard drives split between a 120 C: and 30 D:, and are continuing to get a series of freeze up and performance issues. I have gone through all of the optimization steps in Adobe KB401088 for optimizing performance.
The most common issues that we are experiencing are:
Photoshop stops responding on the initial execution, but works fine after restarting the PC.
Photoshop opens fine but freezes the system when various tools are selected, including type, layer, and duplicate.
Numerous freezes when trying to add new layers to images.
Photoshop will work fine for a day or day and a half, then will suddenly do any variation of what is listed above for a few days no matter how many restarts are done on the PC. Continuous restarts are as much of a productivity loss to fix our problems as the problems are in the first place.
I have gone all over the internet looking for solutions to these issues and can’t find anything. We have upped the cache and memory allocations for Photoshop which in the short term makes my users happy but the issues end up coming back. What other options do I have other than downgrading my CS3 software from Design Premium to a different edition or testing the performance on a Vista computer?
The most common issues that we are experiencing are:
Photoshop stops responding on the initial execution, but works fine after restarting the PC.
Photoshop opens fine but freezes the system when various tools are selected, including type, layer, and duplicate.
Numerous freezes when trying to add new layers to images.
Photoshop will work fine for a day or day and a half, then will suddenly do any variation of what is listed above for a few days no matter how many restarts are done on the PC. Continuous restarts are as much of a productivity loss to fix our problems as the problems are in the first place.
I have gone all over the internet looking for solutions to these issues and can’t find anything. We have upped the cache and memory allocations for Photoshop which in the short term makes my users happy but the issues end up coming back. What other options do I have other than downgrading my CS3 software from Design Premium to a different edition or testing the performance on a Vista computer?
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