CS2 and 2GB Memory Limit

[Neil...@adobeforums.com]

In the Adobe CS2 Brochure, there is a specific statement that CS2 BREAKS the "2Gb Ram limitation" Preferences -> Memory & Image Cache <Memory Usage>.

I was shocked to see after installing CS2 that this was not true (still only sees 1758MB Ram) and even more astonished that Adobe Support had no clue that this was in their Brochure and list of specs, nor any answer as to how to set CS up to see more RAM.

With CS2 so sluggish, even on my Dual Xeon Monster with 4GB RAM, and 10K Raptor Hard Drives. This feature is critical to performance. More RAM - Less Swap to disk.

Anyone else experiencing this, and if so, is there a solution, or was this just marketing hype with the feature left out.

Neil Burt

[Pierre_C...@adobeforums.com]

You maybe missed some lines: it will use more than 2Gigs if you use a 64bit os, with 64 bits processors, or if you use the /3Gb switch.
see photoshop news <http://photoshopnews.com/2005/04/04/photoshop-cs2%e2%80%93how-much-raw-%e2%80%93-fact/>

[Jim]

<Neil...@adobeforums.com> wrote in message
news:3bba4...@webx.la2eafNXanI...

Well. actually the 2GB limit on virtual memory is imposed by Windows XP.
The limit can be raised to 3GB through the /3GB switch in the Windows
bootini file. It does very little good to have much more than 2GB of
physical RAM.
The limit is much higher in the 64bit version of Windows.
Jim

[Fred_...@adobeforums.com]

CS2 has definitely improved memory handling. My "defective" machine now happily processes actions and filters with RAM allocation set at 75% which crashed CS1 on that machine with RAM allocation at anything over 55%.

I'd be happy except for the trauma I went through trying to solve the CS1 "not enough RAM" stops on my new machine at end 2003 & beginning 2004, when the line from Adobe was that I had "defective hardware".

Message to those at Adobe: Not everyone on this planet lives within driving distance of their computer store, and the returns of the machine to the supplier to find this now proven software fault directly cost me over three weeks of income, plus considerable freight charges. Not to mention the huge losses incurred by not being able to do what I had every right to expect to be able to do (as advertised) with my (then) cutting edge machine between then and now.

Politicians continually demonstrate how blatant lying actually curries favour, and this case has confirmed my opinion that the software industry absolutely follows their lead. The lack of honesty and mind-numbing arrogance beggars belief, and I return that contempt in kind. Middle finger extended.

CS2 is good, but the RAM thing is a fix of a fault in CS1 that us poor bunnies out here have/are being made to pay for.

Unimpressed, guys.

Fred.

[Chri...@adobeforums.com]

CS2 had to make extensive changes to work around the OS limitations.

There is no way we could have done that for CS1 (partly because the new OSes that allow it weren't available when CS1 was written!).

There is no fault in CS1.

[Rick_S...@adobeforums.com]

I tried the link to Photoshop news above and got a 404 Not Found error. Can someone post the instructions for the /3GB switch so I can utilize the RAM in my system? I am running WIN XP PRO SP2, dual OPTERON 64 BIT processors and 4 GB RAM.