Photoshop Swap File Size

DiM · Post by **DiM** » Sat Dec 22, 2007 11:11 am

yeti_c wrote:
DiM wrote:
yeti_c wrote:So increasing your Heap didn't work?

Where is the Photoshop temp file being written too? an NTFS disk - or a FAT disk?

C.

ntfs disk. otherwise it wouldn't be able to increase to 13 gigs and crash.

if it were a fat disk i think it would either give me an error or simply create a second swap temp file.

I suspected that - but was just checking...

Try moving the swap to fat and see if it will create more than one temp file?

C.

i don't have that much space on the fat disk. i only have 8 free GB on C: and i'm not sure what might happen if it actually tries to make a 13 GB swap file. it might break something.

mibi · Post by **mibi** » Sat Dec 22, 2007 12:42 pm

Is PS a legit version? could be an issue. If its not, grab a differnt or legit copy.

I also have my scratch disk on a 50 gig partition on my raptor. but your specs sound fine for the file size, so i doubt its a memory thing. probably best to reinstall.

DiM · Post by **DiM** » Sat Dec 22, 2007 12:47 pm

mibi wrote:Is PS a legit version? could be an issue. If its not, grab a differnt or legit copy.

I also have my scratch disk on a 50 gig partition on my raptor. but your specs sound fine for the file size, so i doubt its a memory thing. probably best to reinstall.

legit version? what kind of person do you think i am? of course it is not

but you might be onto something. i'll try the 30 day free trial version and if it still crashes then i'm really out of solutions

mibi · Post by **mibi** » Sat Dec 22, 2007 1:14 pm

DiM wrote:
mibi wrote:Is PS a legit version? could be an issue. If its not, grab a differnt or legit copy.

I also have my scratch disk on a 50 gig partition on my raptor. but your specs sound fine for the file size, so i doubt its a memory thing. probably best to reinstall.

legit version? what kind of person do you think i am? of course it is not

but you might be onto something. i'll try the 30 day free trial version and if it still crashes then i'm really out of solutions

might also want to defrag the drive, could be some bad sectors.

DiM · Post by **DiM** » Sat Dec 22, 2007 1:14 pm

mibi wrote:
DiM wrote:
mibi wrote:Is PS a legit version? could be an issue. If its not, grab a differnt or legit copy.

I also have my scratch disk on a 50 gig partition on my raptor. but your specs sound fine for the file size, so i doubt its a memory thing. probably best to reinstall.

legit version? what kind of person do you think i am? of course it is not

but you might be onto something. i'll try the 30 day free trial version and if it still crashes then i'm really out of solutions

might also want to defrag the drive, could be some bad sectors.

i have bad sectors but only on drive C. the windows page file and the photoshop swap file are both on drive E.

casper · Post by **casper** » Sun Dec 30, 2007 9:08 pm

DiM wrote:i have bad sectors but only on drive C. the windows page file and the photoshop swap file are both on drive E.

I was going to suggest using a different drive than C for the PS swap file. But perhaps it is because you have the Windows page file on E and not C? I dunno...I've heard conflicting opinions about this.

Other suggestions. Download CCleaner - http://www.ccleaner.com - and run it. Update your graphics card drivers. Defrag all drives. Try some advanced XP tweaks. Here's a really good one I use that will walk you through a lot of tweaks.

http://tweakhound.com/xp/xptweaks/supertweaks1.htm
Page File in particular: http://www.tweakhound.com/xp/xptweaks/supertweaks5.htm

wcaclimbing · Post by **wcaclimbing** » Tue Jan 01, 2008 1:32 pm

if you have any extra programs running in the background (internet, update programs, games, etc), close all of them. there are a few that like to eat all your computers processing power and really slow down/crash other programs.

DiM · Post by **DiM** » Tue Jan 01, 2008 3:38 pm

i bought my wife another gift and abandoned this

plus i'm on the lookout to purchase a laptop so hopefully my problems with the swap file will be over.

wcaclimbing · Post by **wcaclimbing** » Tue Jan 01, 2008 3:57 pm

DiM wrote:i bought my wife another gift and abandoned this

plus i'm on the lookout to purchase a laptop so hopefully my problems with the swap file will be over.

better make sure its a good laptop, if you are still planning on doing Photoshop stuff with it.

I've heard that most low-quality laptops really struggle with running photoshop.

DiM · Post by **DiM** » Tue Jan 01, 2008 4:12 pm

Mobile AMD Turion 64 X2 @ 1900MHz
NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GS with 512Mb
HDD 250GB
RAM: 2048Mb DDR2 @ 667MHz

i think it will run photoshop pretty well.