ok, WTF photoshop is saying I dont have enough Ram to open, but it used to work fine.

[stangeroo]

I asked this in the software section and didnt get anything that fixed it so maybe ill try here. I have photoshop 7. It worked fine untill about a week ago when it says it doesnt have enough ram to open. It almosts opens but right before the palettes are going to open the ram message pops up and says it needs to close. I have 512MB of ram on a HP with a Pentium 4 at 3ghz and HT. I have not modified my system at all, and it worked fine then just stopped. It does it even with no other programs running, I used to beable to open it with multiple browsers open. Could my ram be messed up.

 

[ag3]

What is the current size of your Page File? You can diagnose your module(s) with Memtest86+.

 

[Apokalipse]

this happened to me after I installed XP over 98, even though I had a total of almost 1GB RAM (paging included). have you installed an OS lately?

 

[jolancer]

how much memory was photoshop set to use? in.. edit/preferences/memory and cache size....

 

[vance43211]

download freemem which moters how much ram is free

http://www.meikel.com/en/products/freemem/

 

[stangeroo]

I have not installed any recent OSes or programs really. The paging file is set at 1000MB. I dont remember how big of a cache PS was set to use. IS there a way to clear its cache by finding the folder? heres a pic of freemem with PS trying to open. That large spike in the middle was when I told it to free up some mem. When PS opened it is spike on the right side.

 

[stangeroo]

also, I have reinstalled PS a number of times and it still does this. I have version 6 on my computer and it works fine

 

[ekÆsine]

This might help you, you will need to have patience to read the entire thread:

(link removed)

 

[vance43211]

Take a picture of your processes (control, alt, del)

there should be that much ram being used just to open a program

 

[vance43211]

some ways to free up ram

http://www.techist.com/showthread.php?s=&postid=201218#post201218