im having problems with photoshop running?

[Jason Davies]

6 gig that’s insane, I’m running CS3 on a Mac laptop with just 2gig no problems, I’d double check with Adobe just to make sure before you go re-investing.

Regards

Jason

[Tomas Vidziunas]

Hi,
Photoshop CS3 requirements 512 MB RAM:
http://www.adobe.com/products/photoshop … ystemreqs/
I don’t know what type of computer you are using but most popular Operating Systems supports up to 4 GB of RAM. If you have something "lower" than Windows Vista you will be able to use only about 3,5 GB of RAM (Vista Service Pack 1 uses up to 4 GB, else you have to unlock that feature), and the rest of them will only be collecting dust 🙂 As I know the same goes for Mac OS X it will use up to 4 GB. If you have 64 bit Operating System that is a different story then.
Everything depends on size of graphics you are working, bigger resolution requires more computing power (CPU, RAM, faster hard discs).
Hope that help a bit.
Tomas

[Tobias Redig]

You need a 64-bit OS to be able to use more then 4 GB RAM in your machine. Either Windows XP 64-bit or Windows Vista 64-bit should do the trick. I’ve run Photoshop CS3 on 2 GB and it ran fine. At the moment I have 4 GB and I can’t really feel much of a diffrence. Working with big, big, BIG files you’d benefit from having more memory though. Question is, do you really need to work in the resolution your working at? Or could you lower it and thus lower the memory usage.

[Russell Huffer]

Big problem is CS3 would not install on my home pc which runs Vista 64 bit.
Runs very quick on office pc nothing special £350.00 off ebay quad core with 4 gig memory.

Regards

Russell.

[Richard Urquhart]

hi using amd quad core with vista 64 bit cs3 runs fine and no problems

[Peter Normington]

I dont have any issues running cs3 on xp
I have 4 gig installed, but only 3.5 is used. as said by others.
Can you be more specific on the problems you are having?

Peter

[Tobias Redig]

I’ve had no problems running CS3 on Vista 64-bit.

[Steve McAdie]

I had a problem with Photoshop a while a go, kept on getting not enough RAM message, only when trying to render large graphics, a guy in a computer shop said I would need 6 gig of RAM. Never got it sorted, just learned to live without rendering large graphics.

Steve

[David West]

If you can manage to start it… check the preferences in photo shop and look at your scratch disk, you may have this set too low, crank this up

[Steve Underhill]

also change the dafault memory used by photoshop from 50% up to about 85 or 90% depending on what other programs you are using

[Jason Xuereb]

Maybe your designing your files too big for no reason? I used to do this and now can make my graphics look fine without 300dpi resolutions etc.