Photoshop Sllllooowww ??

[chasperth]

I use Photoshop 8 and found it extremely slow, pausing between tool selections and mouse cursor only showing in picture and not full program area for 20 seconds after each change. I even uninstalled and put on Elements 4 and almost same thing, just very slow and almost unuseable.
I have just formatted and re-installed Windows XP with all correct drivers installed Photoshop and it immediately done as above and just generally slow.

PC is an AMD Opteron FX60
2gb Reg RAM (www.crucial for board match)
Asus K8v Opteron FX board
several serial hard disks
6800 GFX

So it's no slouch with anything else other than Photoshop. It's seriously weird?
Anyone ideas how to speed it up as it's a lot of software to not use

Chas

[Elder-Bunny]

You might have opened up a new document that is extreamly large (Like 99,999 width by 99,999 height)

[johneva]

This dont answer your problem but dude you carnt have an Optron FX-60 there is no such thing.

There is the AMD Athlon 64 X2 FX-60.

The Optron's are the server range of CPU's and are named AMD Optron 165 for example.

I really dont see why Photoshop is running so slow for you though other than if you have software conflics somewhere.

EDIT

Oh after thought it maybe cos you have an AMD dual core CPU some software dont like dual core CPUs as they havent been programmed to use both cores.

You could try setting the process affinity to only use the one core and see how that goes, there is alos an AMD dual core optimizer out there I have seen. As I run dual core Intel rig not 100% wised up on AMD though.

[Excruciating]

You might have opened up a new document that is extreamly large (Like 99,999 width by 99,999 height)

I'm sticking with that one. I made that mistake the first time I tried photoshop as well..

But then again, Johneva might be right.