forcing photoshop to use RAM
 

Is there anyway to force photoshop to
a)NOT create the scatch disk on the hard drive
b)force it to use the RAM for 100% of the document

for example, if i open a 5 meg psd file, 1.2 megs will be used by my RAM and the rest by my scratch disk (hard drive) and my computer will crawl.. even though i have the RAM available. I've tried setting the RAM % to different values, any ideas?

AMD64 1 gig pc3200 ddr


thanks if you reply :disgust

Is it possibly your video card helping to make things crawl? If your resolution is high when you open a big MB file like that it chews up video RAM as well...

Then again, what do I know? I hate computers.

don't think you can do that hoewever you can allocate the full resources of yer machine to photoshop by control/alt/delete. when the window pops up right click photoshop and set prioroty to real time.. then make sure machine is set to application processing. . . then go to here; http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/forum.asp?forum=1006 and ask very politly if they can help if this doesn't.

thanks for the replies :O

i think i misunderstood the way PS uses memory
http://www.quepublishing.com/article...&seqNum=9&rl=1

"As a rule of thumb, Photoshop wants to work with three to five times the size of a saved image file. This means that if you are working on a 15MB file, you need to have 45 to 75MB free of both scratch disk space and physical RAM. If you have less scratch disk space than RAM, Photoshop will not use any more RAM than it has access to scratch disk space. Therefore, if you have 1GB of RAM and have assigned Photoshop 200MB of scratch disk space, Photoshop will use only 200MB of that huge RAM amount you have installed."

i guess everything is normal :thumbsup

Put the crack pipe down and step away from the emachine you fucking aol porn surfing webmaster wanna be