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Hey guys I gotta compaq laptop wid 1.66centrino duo and 2gig ram. its used mainly for photo editing. is there anyway i can improve the performance even more? the machine does run quite well and i use reg mechanic and ccleaner and defrag once a week. i find most normal operations work quite well but it does start to bog down a bit during photoshop batch processing and while its only using 1.3gig of memory. |
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@gtr1 | 27 September 10 |
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is there anyway to improve in this area? i got photoshop max memory usage set to 70percent. it works better than wen its set to 90. i am running windows XP.
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@gtr1 | 27 September 10 |
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oh and running photoshop cs1.
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@sonicbom | 27 September 10 |
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You.ll need atleast 2.0ghz or more powerful cpu to run photoshop without slow down
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@gtr1 | 27 September 10 |
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Its a centrino duo not a single 1.66.
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@meghertz | 27 September 10 |
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it's an old, slow cpu. your getting the best it has to offer.
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@gtr1 | 27 September 10 |
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are there any hardware or software changes i can do to make it run faster?
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@edit.or | 27 September 10 |
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what are you trying to do with photoshop batch?maybe there is a quicker way
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@jay.mack | 27 September 10 |
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unlikley
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@jay.mack | 27 September 10 |
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unlikley
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@gtr1 | 27 September 10 |
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editor there is not much easier way to do the batches. even if i edit each pic individually it takes quite a few seconds to save a psd. it freezes while saving. each photo including layers is around 150mb to 300mb. the laptop does lockup while saving. memory doesnt seem to be an issue.
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@gtr1 | 27 September 10 |
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i mean it wil freeze for a few seconds while saving.
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@jay.mack | 27 September 10 |
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your cpu may not look like its in use but you may well be maxing out the gma/gpu
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@gtr1 | 27 September 10 |
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ok but is there a way to improve the performance? i even turn off firewall and av while working. the computer is extremely fast wid other appz including firefox etc. its just photoshop dat slows it down.
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@spartan2 | 27 September 10 |
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Photoshop needs a combination of a good CPU, a decent GPU, plenty of RAM and ideally, a fast hard drive. Unfortunately that suggests a good all round system. Sounds like a big problem for you however is saving files that are hundreds of megabytes, that can be incredibly slow on old hard drives, easily 10 seconds+
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@edit.or | 27 September 10 |
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i don't know a lot about photoshop,using gimp nstead but a 150 to 300MB for a single image?how many layers you ve got,are you building a movie or what? maybe photoshop keeps undo/redo info along with the images,maybe you need to save it as bmp or jpeg,don't know
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@spartan2 | 27 September 10 |
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bitmaps are big. jpeg compression is obviously better to reduce size
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@edit.or | 27 September 10 |
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but you loose some quality from your work,not a lot but some.i d use jpeg after i'm sure i won't be editing that image again
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@edit.or | 27 September 10 |
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as for images with alpha channel i think the best format is png
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@jay.mack | 27 September 10 |
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silver66 27.09.10 - 01:07pm don't ever listen to jay mac..he is a moron.... hahaha just look at the pic you have for your profile, and you call me a moron... seriously guy you look at yourself b4 you call others.
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@djtaktix | 27 September 10 |
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fking hell jay that picture made me jump 
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