Toobi-Won Kenobi schreef:
> "Kees van Surksum" <corne4851@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> Kees,
> If you had 1 GB on one stick you needed to add and extra 1 GB also on one
> stick, not 1/2 GB.

Hi Toobi-Won,

It's the other way round. The original stick had only 512 MB, so I added
another 1 Gig. Is this a serious problem? And can I work around it
installing another 1 Gig stick in the mainboard slot?

> CS2 used to require 280MB of RAM just to run, CS3 a little less, this is
> without what the OS is using.
> Open a couple of 50-60 MB images with their associated history states and
> you will soon run out of memory.
> Try setting your virtual memory to twice your RAM, don't let Windows manage
> it, PS can need it before Windows is out of bed.

I did this first. It seemed that it gets somewhat beter. Can be a
placebo-effect... ;-)

> http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/l.../bb457057.aspx
> Switch off compatabilty mode (if you do not use earlier versions)and try
> reducing your number of History states in Preferences.

I still have to try this, but I will report back as ASAP. Thanks so far!!

> Run TaskManager in performance mode in conjuction with PS and see what
> limits are being hit when you are working.
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> HTH
> TWK
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