Hi there,

Some days ago I was trying to create a texture for the nudeposer4 woman in Photoshop. I wanted it to be a high resolution texture so I started with a 3000*3000 image size.

The problem is when I try to use one of photoshop's tools, like paint,stamp etc.. it reacts very,very slow.For example: when I use the paint tool it takes at least 10 sec before I actually see the result. Trying to save the image takes about a minute.

When I use another resolution like 1200*1200 ,I have no problem at all!

I have absolutely no knowledge whatsoever about pc hardware, so my question is: what can I do to solve this problem (apparently my PC is too slow to handle big files in Photoshop) should I buy a faster processor, more intern memory or even a bigger Hard Disk?

BTW: I have a pentium 233Mhz, 64Mb memory and two Hard Disk's, both with 2 Gigabytes. (My 'master' HD has currently 400MB of free space)

Now a colleague of my suggested I buy a bigger Hard disk , cause,so he says, when your intern memory (in my case 64 Mb) is full, windows uses your Hard disk as a 'back up' and stores everything to your Hard Disk ( something to do with virtual memory?)

But again what should I do?

More RAM would probably take care of it. The next step would be a faster processor. With 400Mb free on your primary HD, a bigger drive probably wouldn't help.

When "playing" with PC's there are 2 things you can never have enough of, RAM and disk space. The processor is only really relavant for things like gaussian blur, etc. If you operate at a higher screen resolution, you can get more on the screen and thus (hopefully) not need to page data to and from disk quite so often. Then there is the matter of your OS, the newer it is, the larger the virtual memory pagefile needs to be. Every OS comes with a minimum memory recommendation, this is for the OS, only double it to use a single app, the more apps you wish to run concurrently, the more memory you need to add. From using it, I can tell you that win '98 needs at least a 400Mb free just to work properly, I had the same problems when I had poser installed on my 2Gb boot partition, I got below the 400Mb limit and the OS began to die every 3 hours, even with 256Mb of RAM and an Athalon 800. I moved poser to my other partition, (it's a 27Gb disk, but by default windows give you a maximum 2Gb boot partition when you install it.) and it stayed up for longer, but it got very slow if I tried to set the default display mode to fully textured and I had a lot of characters/props & textures loaded. For immediate results, double or quadruple your RAM, but be aware that you will need a larger drive soon after to accomodate the larger VM pagefile that windows will create because you have more memory. It may be wise to buy a bigger drive as a slave divice and move everything you can of the boot device to make room for the pagefile, etc. You may also be suprised at the temporary speed increase you can get from de-fragmenting/optimising your disk, but this only lasts for a week or so, before you have to do it again. later jb