Comments on: Setting Up CS4 Photoshop Preferences Pt 5 – Performance

By: Stuart Little

Stuart Little — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 20:28:11 +0000

@Jim – Its a limit set by the OS rather than Photoshop and as far as I know you would need to use the likes of the 64bit Windows 7 or Vista 64bit. This solves the issue. But please anyone feel free to correct me as I am a little sketchy about Windows these days. Sorry I could not give you a quick fix answer.

By: Jim Reid

Jim Reid — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 21:49:42 +0000

I have 4 gigs of RAM installed on my Windows computer (XP Pro). When attempting to adjust the available RAM under preferences PS4 only shows 1681 MB of available RAM.

Any idea where the rest of my RAM may have disappeared to? I have rebooted in both regular and safe mode and the low number persists.

Many thanks.

By: Stuart Little

Stuart Little — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 20:07:51 +0000

I have decided to do a quick screencast on this that I will post over the weekend.

By: David Wills

David Wills — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 16:49:24 +0000

Hi Stu. I have the same problem as Catherine where my preferences on history settings gets et back to 20 and I have to go out and reset them. I have PS3 w/ Windows xp

Any help will be appreciated.
Thanks!
Dave

By: Catherine

Catherine — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 16:41:18 +0000

I’ve followed your email instructions and the prefs are all reset now. Thanks for the help!

By: Catherine

Catherine — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 09:26:55 +0000

Excellent. I’ve just been putting up with it rather than investigating how to correct it. I’ll look forward to hearing from you.

By: Stuart Little

Stuart Little — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 08:32:56 +0000

Sounds like a corrupted preferences file to me. I will email you details on how to get it sorted.

Stu

By: Catherine

Catherine — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 09:19:46 +0000

Thanks for this series of screencasts Stuart.

Although I’m still on CS3 the information is still of value. For some peculiar reason PS doesn’t hold my Preferences and resets itself to the default settings every so often (same with my Colour Settings). It’s a bit of a pest having to reset them, so the video tutorials are a good reminder of how they should be set.