dont know why but after running about 15mins (or less) Photshp got freeze on my computer, every tabs gone white n i lost all my work :( I tried to re-install windows but it didnt help. Dont know what happened >__<
im using : p4 3.0e HT, 512DDRam anyone can help me out :(
installed the lasted Video Driver but it still happens . It go freeze for about 5 mins and work normally for 'bout 10 mins and then freeze again ...ect
try resetting the prefrences per the faq, that should clear out your recent file list. you're sure you don't have a network printer anywhere? that might be offline?
No printing of any kind. I have cleared the preferences per faq several times. It actually helps for a bit. The problem does seem to be corrupting pref files.
One possibility is the wacom driver. The first clue that Ps is about to go down is strange cursor behavior. Will check that out.
Yes, video drivers. Can a video driver problem corrupt preference files, if that is indeed what is happening?
The tough thing about that is there are so many people with the same drivers (and even card) that do not have this problem. If it is indeed traced to this, I guess I am screwed, or buy a new card.
Seems with a lot of these problems there is a complex interaction between several previously benign components of hardware and software. Only in concert do they bring out the worst in each other. And very few people have exactly that configuration, so few resources can be spent on solving it.
I see on the nvidia website that there are vendor approved drivers. I installed the Adobe tested one, no help. Could there be issues of not uninstalling correctly or completely, or even not installing correctly?
When Photoshop finally quits, it does generate a report that is filled with technical information. Are there any resources that could help me glean a hint from this report as to where to continue exploring?
Dave, on the network issue, on digging some more, there are two network cards on this machine. Don't know how that happened, didn't ask for it. Windows has been trying to tell me something was unplugged. I disabled the card and will see if that helps.
Seems a lot of people have posted this problem but nobody knows the answer. Fortunately I do. It's because of this font preview thing. I just came to this forum trying to see if anyone else has posted about this problem. I never used CS, but now I decided to upgrade to CS2. Appaullingly it spends several minutes after startup has apparently finished, rendering previews of all the fonts on the system, regardless of whether or not you are working with text type or even have the character pallette open. On my machine with thousands of fonts installed this makes Potoshop unresponsive for a lengthy period of time.
Also if you enter the settings dialog and change the font preview size, the process starts all over again. There is no option to turn off font preview and rectify this atrocious behavior.
You can see this happening if you have a file system hook program. You will visually be able to identify Photoshop accessing and querying every single font file installed on the system this way.
I personally think that the approach should be to do this process once, AND inform the user that it is happening (so as to prevent all this confusion) and then cache the previews indefinitely for use between sessions, updating the preview database only when new fonts are added or old ones removed. Doing this process every time Photoshop starts up is the most ludicrious thing to ever spawn from Adobe's lair. I assume they sacked all the staff that worked on previous versions and decided to get a new batch of staff who clearly do not have a clue.
In fact you can turn the preview off. In my haste I was expecting to see a "None" option in the dropdown but you can just deselect "Font Preview Size" by unchecking the box and this disables the preview altogether, even though the option refers to size. This does bypass the mass font querying and thus hanging problem.
it that really because of the font? I realize that when PSCS2 go freeze, there's 2 PSCS2 in the Windows Task Mangaer, while in processes there r some Adobelm_cleanup.0001 running, also Adobelmsvc.exe but they use no CPU at all :( my sistem Idle is still 99%
If it has something to do with Font querying wouldnt it take some CPU?
Bilge - the font rendering should not make Photoshop unresponsive. It was very carefully designed NOT to do that.
Adobe tested CS2 with a large number of users on a HUGE number of systems - and nobody reported anything like what you're claiming (even the folks with the old PII systems).
If you would like to work with us to figure out your problems, please create a new topic. Hijacking an existing topic with unrelated guesswork isn't considered polite.
The font rendering doesn't just make Photoshop unresponsive but the mass disk access drives the entire system to a near halt whilst it continues to do this.
My intention was not to hijack, I read a number of topics all referring to almost the same thing and figuring that this was the most active of the bunch decided to post the response to this one. Although in retrospect if this user is only experiencing the problem 15 minutes after start-up then perhaps it is not the same thing, since although the symptomns are the same, the problem occurs almost immediately after start-up if it's font preview related, so sorry for that.
I find no need to work with anyone to resolve the issue I had since the problem was clearly identified as mass disk access caused by overburdening the hard disk with querying all the fonts on the system. The only thing I changed was to turn this off and the problem has ceased to be. The details are exactly as I have already mentioned so please review them carefully.
Craig, I am using a nVidia card in CS2 without problem, and I did not update the drivers recently...
What other programs are running? Was the other machine using a quadro card as well? What OS? (with a dual opteron and 6gigs, I was wondering if you were using XP64...)
Bilge - ok, how many fonts do you have installed? Have you checked your system drive for fragmentation?
The hard disk should be far from "overburdened" by a low priority background thread rendering font samples. So I'm really curious why your system seems to be "overburdened" by it.
We recently purchase de new CS 2 version and i had to stay in office on sunday to clean up the PC station with Font doctor and then relink the font with Font reserve.
I agree with Blige this is in the least stable version of Photoshop i saw so far.Remember the slow Acrobat version 6 .
But let me tell you this version is worst!...I have a workstation here with 3000 fonts activated!...
It s been 10 minutes now and i have click Photoshop CS 2 To open it and the process is at 98% of the CPU, so there is a problem here!...
If i deactivate the font the problem go away!... Then i know i read your resume you should report this bug to the office.
Also i hope the future Macromedia products will not be that bugy!...I think everyone at Adobe should be a little concern about all this .
I hope i didn't Hijack the topic Chris.
Font are a common problem with Adobe products on the Mac ... Welcome all of PC user you now have the same problem
Oh yeah Chris tell the people at Adobe to update the Adobe Type Manager its ridiculous how old it is!...
Then we need to find out what strange and problem fonts you have that are causing this problem (and we did test with third party fonts -- it's just that the Adobe font library is the biggest collection of fonts we have available)
You aren't a beta tester -- 600+ other people did that. But they didn't have this problem.
So we need to find out from you what's different about your system that you are having this problem!
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