Photoshop and memory with 64 bit....

I now own Vista 64 bit (It is what it is, so don't give me to much of a hard time.) I bought 64bit because I have Lightroom 2.0 and wanted to take advantage of the memory increase.

BUT what about Photoshop CS3? I have 8 gigs of memory and CS3 can't use it all! Very sad....... but there is one change in your CS3 preferences I would recomend making: Maximize your memory usage....

In CS3 goto:
edit>preferences>performance...>

Move the slider in the Memory Usage box to 100%. You have the memory, use it... It will max out at 3255 MB. At least it will be better then it was, because before I had 2 gigs and could only allocate 70%, if I did more it would bring my system to a halt.

My other experience(at least with weddings) I can have Lightroom, Bridge, and Photoshop(with 10+ files open) and still never touch the scratch disk when I have my memory usage at a 100%...

My belief unless File sizes become sooooo big. Scratch disks on PCs are the thing of the past especially with Photoshop CS4 taking advantage of the 64bit Operating Systems memory increase.


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