Forum: Photoshop


Subject: Photoshop CS Memory Handling?

Elusion opened this issue on Nov 24, 2003 ยท 5 posts


Elusion posted Mon, 24 November 2003 at 2:00 PM

Hi! A faithful long time (since version 3 for the peecee) Photoshop user, I was thinking of skipping the CS version update because of one flaw in the proggie that is driving me nuts with P7 - the 1.6 gigabyte cap on memory usage. I can impossibly be the only person with more than 1.6 gigs of ram, memory prices in most of the USA being what they are, and yet Photoshop 7 doesn't even use all of the memory. I have a vast, regularly defragged separate scratch drive, but accessing it still slows down my system, whereas working straight off memory doesn't seem to. This is somewhat to very mission critical to me, because of the need to create very high resolution textures with more layers than I dare confess to (I anm allergic to flattening layers because I can never make up my mind). Does anyone know whether Photoshop CS recognizes a larger amount of memory, or whether its still capped at 1.6 gigs? Thanks! Moyra