Photoshop CS is loading very hard

Discussion in 'Photoshop' started by necromanc, Nov 12, 2006.

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    Today when I wanted to open Photoshop for editing some pictures I waited over 1 minute to actually can work, and it started to block, and don't respond.

    Why ?
     
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    bnts Well-Known Member

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    Restart your system..That often solves such problems :) I always do like that...

    But does it happen for the first time?
     
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    necromanc Peon

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    I restarted twice, and the same problem.

    Yes .. there was for the first time ( I've not used him for about 1 week ), and now it happens over and over again.Now I can't even open it ... it take to much time to load.
     
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    corrupted installation, reinstall
    if you are using cracked version it is likely some files are corrupted
     
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    Let's try to reinstall.
     
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    is this Photoshop CS or CS2? I've given up on CS2 as it's very hungry for resources. My rig is only a 3Ghz Athlon with 1G mem and still, PS/AI CS2 loads so slow.

    Im using CS at the moment and loads like a notepad. I open 100+ photos from 5Megapixel camera files with no problem. You might also want to unload fonts and plugins as they take up memory space.

    I use extensis suitcase to organize my 30k fonts (LOL). Although I am saving for a 64bit system and a CS2 installer for next year.
     
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    jquindlen Notable Member

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    Yeah, the fonts are the big killer. Photoshop ran fine for me until I installed a massive amount of fonts. Now it's slow and unresponsive.
     
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    jquindlen : man, invest on a font organizer. It really helps. Although I would recommend extensis suitcase for the ps/flash user. just drag your fonts in the manage panel and you can set them as installed or not. Also gives you a lorem ipsum, alphanumeric and custom par on each font.
     
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    I think the fonts are my problems.A few days ago I've pasted 300 MB of fonts in windows/fonts directory.Now how I remove them ? Because I don't know witch one are used by windows.
     
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    Installing too many fonts do increase down the photoshop response time...I install only those that I usually use...But if there is any font organizer as jayL has said, I would like to know if that helps in response time.

    Thanks,
    bnts
     
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    dp-user-1 Well-Known Member

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    1.6 Ghz Pentium 4, 512 DDR. ;) At any given time I have about 24 IE windows open, iTunes, Photoshop, FileZilla, Word, McAfee, AIM, etc. etc.
     
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    My lappy is more horrible then yours lol:( 1.5 GHz celeronM, 256 DDR2 and still you can see photoshop CS2 active most of the time:( apart from the Firefox and all..
     
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    dp-user-1 Well-Known Member

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    You win. :p
     
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    How do I remove the fonts that I don't need and don't use ? I don't know what are the basic fonts, and I don't want to make some kind of mistake.
     
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    necro : simple! Select all fonts, and unselect all the default windows fonts. A list can be found on google. Just search "default windows fonts" and you're good to go.

    bnts : it helps more on the load side. Remember that fonts are preloaded when you run the adobe engine. I work as a freelance photo cleaner and loading tons of images at the same time is my normal routine.

    If you want a faster response, use pixel dubbling. It lowers the geeking preview so when you move a layer element, it's not fully loaded on your canvas unless you stop.
     
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    Now this one is a very nice tip...thanks for this wonderful tip and rep added for it:D
     
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    Photoshop is resource hungry, you better have a very minimum of 512mb RAM, besides fonts maybe other plugins like brushes could possibly cause it to load slower.
     
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    Yes exactly:) seems like these days a system normally requires atleast 512 MB of RAM :( I am soon to upgrade my lappy anyway:D
     
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    Me also. sometime Photoshop load so slow.. and as backup, when i finished any project i immediately save in my drive. if i dont, when phostoshop stuck, my data will be lose..
     
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