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Get out of RAM at times not sure why as I have two 1TB HD with scratch disk set up this is meant to take over when out of RAM I thought. I have 3G of RAM don't think you can have more on a 32bit system can you? so I not understand what is going on, any one help please..
 
Are you saying CS5 is using more than 3GB of ram when running?
 
I would have thought 3GB would have been enough. What spec is your graphics card, perhaps it is robbing some ram from the PC?
 
Kerioak said:
I frequently get this (have 4Gb Ram), saving and restarting the programme can help. I have tried giving it various settings but unless I am working with a small file then content aware is pretty useless - normally try and use it on 5D Mk2 files and with assorted layers it does not co-operate very often.
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glad I am not the only one then I find the smart edge tool in making also plays up unless you do tiny bits at a time I am working with 16bit files out of my 7D
I see setting for 'Tall and Thin' and 'Big and Flat' what I not understand is the scratch disk is there to help RAM is it not?
 
admirable said:
I would have thought 3GB would have been enough. What spec is your graphics card, perhaps it is robbing some ram from the PC?
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do this help
Adobe Photoshop Version: 12.0.2 (12.0.2x20101122 [20101122.r.1204 2010/11/22:02:00:00 cutoff; r branch]) x32
Operating System: Windows 7 32-bit
Version: 6.1
System architecture: Intel CPU Family:6, Model:5, Stepping:2 with MMX, SSE Integer, SSE FP, SSE2, SSE3, SSE4.1, SSE4.2
Physical processor count: 4
Processor speed: 2926 MHz
Built-in memory: 3063 MB
Free memory: 932 MB
Memory available to Photoshop: 1632 MB
Memory used by Photoshop: 78 %
Image tile size: 128K
Image cache levels: 2
OpenGL Drawing: Enabled.
OpenGL Drawing Mode: Basic
OpenGL Allow Normal Mode: True.
OpenGL Allow Advanced Mode: False.
OpenGL Crash File: Not Detected.
OpenGL Allow Old GPUs: Not Detected.
Video Card Vendor: NVIDIA Corporation
Video Card Renderer: GeForce G210/PCI/SSE2
Display: 1
Display Bounds:= top: 0, left: 0, bottom: 1080, right: 1920
Video Card Number: 1
Video Card: NVIDIA GeForce G210
Driver Version: 8.17.11.9562
Driver Date: 20091120000000.000000-000
Video Card Driver: nvd3dum.dll,nvwgf2um.dll,nvwgf2um.dll
Video Mode: 1920 x 1080 x 4294967296 colors
Video Card Caption: NVIDIA GeForce G210
Video Card Memory: 512 MB
Serial number: 92628135130726756182
Application folder: C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Photoshop CS5\
Temporary file path: C:\Users\Chaz\AppData\Local\Temp\
Photoshop scratch has async I/O enabled
Scratch volume(s):
J:\, 931.3G, 391.5G free
C:\, 910.4G, 769.3G free
Primary Plug-ins folder: C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Photoshop CS5\Plug-ins\
 
I am not a user of CS5, so cannot give you a specific answer, but in general Photoshop just loves to use Memory, so whilst you are using Photoshop, exit from all the other programs you may have loaded to let Photoshop use all available RAM.

From the above:

Built-in memory: 3063 MB
Free memory: 932 MB

With the amount of memory being consumed, other programs must also be running in the background? I would exit / terminate as many as you can and see if that improves the RAM available to Photoshop. i.e. close down any mail or internet browser etc and just have Photoshop running to see if that improves your situation.

When you first boot up the PC, before running any programs, fire up "Task Manager" to see how much memory is just being used by Windows 7 + any other processes - if this is excessive, you may have to audit your start up menu to remove any unnecessary processes/services that are being loaded in the background.

Other users of CS5 may be able to offer some performance enhancing tips, but hope the above may help generally.

Regards
 
is that a laptop ? or PC with built-in GPU ?
Looks like system is using loads of RAM for something. I wouldn't assume CS5 eats all of your RAM.
 
I've got 8gigs in mine and it still runs dry when processing very heavily. CS5 loves RAM.
 
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