Photoshop RAM error?

[glend]

I have installed Photoshop (Elements 12) on my laptop (Win Vista) and find that I cannot open my image files - I get an error message saying that there is not enough RAM?

Is this fixable with settings? According to Adobe my system meets the application requriements for memory (2GB).

Anyone dealt with this before?

[ZeroID]

Not sure exactly how it's done in Vista, never played with it but try increasing your Virtual Memory. Ctl Panel > Systems > Advanced, Performance Settings and the Advanced tab. Needs to be at least twice the size of your RAM. even more. This gives the system some virtual ram using a temp file location on the Hard drive.
Also turn off all the fancy display options on the first screen after you click on the settings button. Set it for basic. This will turn off all the fancy screen effects and backdrops etc freeing up more memory and the CPU. Hopefully this will get it going, no guarantees. 2 gig would be minimal for Photoshop apps I would say.
Photoshop is a resource hungry beast, I know from trying to get it running on PCs at work that were not really designed to do it. Vista may have other issues.

[Garbz]

This would seem very strange to me seeing how I not very fondly remember processing a 200 megapixel photo in Photoshop CS on a computer with 512MB of RAM about 10 years ago. It was slower than my ability to do calculus at 6am without a coffee but it did eventually get there.

I'm not sure about Elements but Photoshop CS6 has an option where you can select maximum memory and assign scratch disks under it's preferences. May be worth a look?

[astronobob]

Very useful Info there Thanx Brent, I never knew the Memory (in this situation) could be changed, I have just found and increased mine from 4,000MB to 20,000MB. Looking forward to its potential :thumbsup:
Also - I just found where I can (and just did) Create a restore Point, whoo, my last two PC's did them Automatically; but this current PC has never done one, and I thought it was just the way it was, but now I can create them every few months :thumbsup:
Very much appreciated Brent & very lucky I stumbled across this thread :thumbsup:



Not strange to me Chris, I have processed a 500MB photo in PS, but run out of Virtuial memory stitching 10x 12MB jpgs together, it will stitch it, but wont save it unless I change the profile - All good ..