I've used Dreamweaver in the past, and was about to do a site with it. I have a 30 day trial of MX2004, and it;s useless. I tried it out with about 10 pages of truly basic HTML, no graphics, one simple table on each page, so easy, they were all hand coded. It crashes way too often because it runs out of resources. I've done fresh boots and it does not help, my temp files are deleted, disk is scanned and defragged, virus up to date, I've uninstalled and reinstalled with virus protection disabled [suggested by Macromedia] and it makes no difference. Running on win98SE, 120+80 gig drive lots of free space - Athlon 1.6 384meg ram
Sounds strange. I use Dreamweaver MX2004 without any problems. Using Windows XP service pack 1, 75+20 gig drive, Penium III 800Mhz processor with 256 meg ram. I'm not a computer wiz but I rememebr when I first installed it it seemed to run slow. I changed my virtual memory to 384 meg and it seemed to run much better. Do you have a lot of other processes running in the background? That might be part of the problem? If I check task manager while Dreamweaver is running it says it's only taking up 7,240K of memory usage.
been using dreamweaver for years and never had a problem with it might be worth a look or your download trail program is crupt
same here - I have MX2004 and I never crash. You might have a problem with your computer - or some kind of conflict.
I though of curruption. I used a CD that came with Maximum PC magazine, then I totally uninstalled, including manual deletes of files, then downloaded from Macromedia and re-installed. Now I've rebooted the same machine into Windows XP, and I've installed on that to see. So far there appears to be no problems. However, I need it running on Win98, since that's my normal platform.
According to Macromedia it should run just fine on your system based on what you wrote. I'm not familiar with 98SE but I would still check what your running in the background that might be taking up resources and see if that's causing the problem. Good luck.
Back on Win98, I ran Dreamweaver UltraDev 4, that ends up reducing resources by 25%, but in runs fine. Then I bring up MX2004, and my resources drop at least 40%, and once I do any editing it gets worse Right now I'm down to 12% available resources, I close MX2004 and I immediately go up to 74%
I had a similar problem, then I bought a new toy! (computer) Problem Fixed! I agree DW MX 2004 uses a lot, more than any other program I use.
On my system, which is not a a very good one, I'm using 3% resources with 23 processes running. When I load Dreamweaver it spikes up to about 75% when loading but settles back to 3%. It goes up to about 92% resources used when uploading files to the server. That's an 89% increase in CPU usage. If your starting with 26% resources used it could very well be maxing out your CPU resources. They recently came out with an update that supposedly speeds it up on both Windows and Mac systems. I think it's version 7.0.1 or something like that. Installing the upgrade may solve the problem if you still have version 7.0. It's available for download on their site: http://www.macromedia.com/software/dreamweaver/?promoid=home_prod_dw_082403
Sounded good, I just installed it, but it seems to make no difference. Starting dreamweaver drops around 37% resources, actually opening a page, knocks it down another 15%-20%. That means if I have anything else running my system could crash easily. Under normal conditions I typically may have open multiple web pages, background applications, editing in FrontPage, running FTP, doing FoxPro development, reading email, running a Perl program, all at the same time without problems.
Wish I had an answer for you? Just to check I opened 20 pages in Dreamweaver, MS Outlook, Web Position (no comments please) , 4 IE browser windows, Windows media player playing a video and all my other normal background processes. My CPU usage is still hovering between 3 to 7% with 48 meg of memory still available. With my puney 800Mhz Penium III and 256meg ram. Something has to be going on in your computer that is eating up a lot of resources.
You have enough power to run DW plus Apache, Word, a text editor, graphic software and stuff like that simultaneously, providing you use resonable procedures. Setting aside any possible hardware glitch, I guess your problem is the Win98SE. Get at least WindowsME or XP. On the ME DW works fine. DW demands too many resources but it works okay even on a PentiumII 400MHz and 256MB RAM (a bit slow but workable). If you don't have a good AGP graphic card, get a good one. Go to Settings/Control Panel/File System Properties/Hard Disk and select 'Netwoork Server' not 'Desktop Computer'. You must optimize your computer killing all the garbage loaded at startup (if you run Office delete all the nonsense it loads on start up). Use the DW's extension manager and delete all extensions except those you *really* need. My 2 cents.
I would rather have my toenails ripped out than use ME.... Get XP or 2000, but XP is the only one that will keep you almost secure
Of course you're right, but comparing the SE and ME the later is far, far better and almost free (just a 'thank you') nowadays. On the XP, the Pro, just cross your fingers if you update to Service Pack 2.
I use 2004 MX for my website production.. Running Athalon 1700+ 512 of Ram w/Win XP, so it's not quite a fair comparison, but I've never experienced what you're talking about.
before i installed dsl and recent ms updates my computer was running dreamweaver normally. now it is slow as hell. any hints on how to make it faster again without restoring to an earlier restore point? my running processes are not too bad and have 512 MB memory, 1.1Ghz processor - but cpu is running at 100% with only dreamweaver opened! FTP retrieval is painfully slow. thanks for all your help...ben
Hi I use Dreamweaver, one copy at work, one at home. I never have any problems on my home version, but as for the one at work.....arrgh, it quite often stalls during start up, and is prone to the odd crash, this is despite the computer having a gig of memory! My home computer has less memory and less problems, guess computer set up must be an issue!
Well it's been almost a year since I started this thread. I gave up using Dreamweaver on this machine. But I though I would try again, I've done a lot of optimizing and cleaning, removing junk, cleaning the registry, check for bad installs and assorted crap. I also just added ram, so I have 673meg. Started DM again, and my resouces are down to zero, I'm surprised this browser is still up. Time to reboot.