something occur in my photoshop..

when i wanna play with some unqie pattern effect like,Shear,Twist,twister,wave...
it say..insuffincent RAM(or not enought RAM)

WTF?
wat does it mean??
my Ram not enought?
currenly i am using 512Ram to process..
previosly..eveything goes wells..
buy why now??how does it happen..


everyone plz help me solve tis promble..
i cant live without using those nice effect..

i would say yes ur 512mb is not enough....
atleast upgrade till 1gig....

photoshop does eat up lotsa RAM. add more RAM.

I think with less RAM shouldn't make the effect cannot be process, just maybe it will take more time to make the job done!!

Is it a minimum requirement for the VGA RAM amount?

Is the available HDD space be an issue also??

either upgrade to a higher ram or close the other applications that you were running at the same time when you want to run photoshop.

since when photoshop program need mass amount of GC-ram....?

yaa..as wat omega 007 say..

Is the available HDD space be an issue also??

(currently my Hdd space left 4GB Ard only..)

Dont think its HDD space coz u got 4GB left what... Maybe tooo much program running in the background such as antivirus@spyware@downloading@etc...

4gb is enough for file swapping, OS can run smoothly....

well, your diagnosis has been suggested by members here already..

1. RAM
2. HDD space (available space)
3. Background processes/services

1. 512 is actually enough however it'll start lagging when you work on A3 size at 300DPI and above. one way to test is create an A# size canvas with 300dpi and then what you do is taruh gradients around and see when your computer starts lagging.

2. the computer will fall back on 'virtual memory' if the RAM doesn't have enough of it. but might not be such a large issue.

3. background services are the cause to computer slowdown when starting up, shutting down and even when you've got a lot of applications running.

if you're running multiple applications at a time like me (I run Photoshop, Illustrator, Dreamweaver, Flash, Firefox - uses more RAM now, iTunes..After Effects sometimes..) then you'll definetely need a minimum 1GB of RAM for applications to work at an optimized speed.

and don't forget to clear your computer of spyware, run Disk Cleanup and Disk Defragmenter every once a month at least.

This post has been edited by etsuko: Apr 6 2006, 01:49 PM

Try to go to Edit > Preference> Memory and Image Cache and set the amount the memory. Also try setting your scratch disck to a HD with plenty of space. Try to increase your RAM if worse come to worse.

a note about the Memory and Image Cache

what it does is that it tells the computer to allocate that percentage of your RAM dedicated to Photoshop. which means that if you've got other applications running, it might still lag.

thanks again..
whom give me suggestion..

it really work out..after i had update my version to CS2