RAM Help please! ! ! A bit peeved....

[Deleted User]

mdbarber wrote: »

will u please stop, programs have no direct access to the swapfile and i run photoshop as well, as i said only 1 game in 2yrs objected, that was a bug and was fixed the next patch,
Photshop is a memory hungry beast but will still perform better with "real RAM" over swap file" please argue only on what you know to be fact

Photoshop uses the page file to load modules of the program and will reserve the system RAM for intensive image processing. Programs do have access to the page file, it's a core component of developing for windows based systems.

sleep2much

I use Photoshop quite a lot and several times it would fill my 2gb ram and slow down regardless of page file size, I chucked in another 2gb of "slower" cheap ram and it's been fine ever since, my Vista "windows experiance index" dropped from 5.6 to 5.5, but I can't see any drop in performance, I'm pleased I popped in some 5400 cheap memory I had laying around instead of trying to match the other high end 8500, as far as I can see more ram the better regardless of speed.

jaydeeuk1

Photoshop creates its own temporary swap file.
You could always make a 256mb ram disk and plonk your windows swap file, photoshop swap file and temp files to there. Doubt it will make much difference to your speed though. What programs do you have loading on startup? Virus checkers are the main system hog, esp Norton - can bring a dual core to its knees sometimes!

[Deleted User]

Actually, thinking about it. If I were the TS, I'd back up everything that I need off the computer, reformat and go for a clean install of XP and get the latest set of drivers available for my hardware, start a fresh and to make sure NTFS is being used. Then, if there's still performance issues you've got a good base to work from.

bat999

You're not likely to hear from the OP again any time soon.
You freaked him out with your bickering.
:rolleyes:

agaveworm

bat999 wrote: »

You're not likely to hear from the OP again any time soon.
You freaked him out with your bickering.
:rolleyes:

You're not wrong.....

MothballsWallet

superscaper wrote: »

Neither will I, mine's an Athlon XP running at about 1.5 GHz

My laptop's an AMD Sempron 3000+, clocked at up to 1.8GHz, with 1.25GB of RAM. I used to have 256MB (no pee-taking please!) when I got it in NZ, but upgraded it to 1.25GB after I came home (I'm looking to upgrade the hard drive from 40GB to 100GB).

The only casualty of the memory upgrade? My HTML editor, Hot Dog Pro, wouldn't run because of some error that seems to point to a motherboard driver (bull feathers! Everything else works fine!).

mdbarber

MothballsWallet wrote: »

My laptop's an AMD Sempron 3000+, clocked at up to 1.8GHz, with 1.25GB of RAM. I used to have 256MB (no pee-taking please!) when I got it in NZ, but upgraded it to 1.25GB after I came home (I'm looking to upgrade the hard drive from 40GB to 100GB).

The only casualty of the memory upgrade? My HTML editor, Hot Dog Pro, wouldn't run because of some error that seems to point to a motherboard driver (bull feathers! Everything else works fine!).

try pulling out the 256mb module

tradetime

On the subject of swapfile disabling.
http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?t=82147&highlight=page+file
and another
http://www.ideastorm.com/article/show/10078325/Disable_swap_file_or_Virtual_Memory_for_machines_with_high_RAM

mdbarber

tradetime wrote: »

On the subject of swapfile disabling.
http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?t=82147&highlight=page+file
and another
http://www.ideastorm.com/article/show/10078325/Disable_swap_file_or_Virtual_Memory_for_machines_with_high_RAM

lol u wind-up merchant, throwing more arguments into one already,
love kooldrew comes up with all the terminology but can't see the wood for the trees