RE: Probably OT: Photoshop sluggishness

["kim aldis" <xsi(at)kim-aldis.co.uk>]

It may be a windows limitation. That many fonts means the same number of files in one directory. 4,400 files in one directory will almost certainly lead to trouble.

 

From: owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM [mailto:owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM] On Behalf Of Eriya Ito
Sent: 15 May 2008 03:53
To: XSI(at)Softimage.COM
Subject: RE: Probably OT: Photoshop sluggishness

 

CS2.

I just heard from another source that Adobe recommends upto and only 300 installed fonts!

Isn’t that crazy?! Makes you feel like crawling into a hole somewhere and sob away…

 

From: owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM [mailto:owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM] On Behalf Of Wayne Williams
Sent: Thursday, May 15, 2008 11:39 AM
To: XSI(at)Softimage.COM
Subject: Re: Probably OT: Photoshop sluggishness

 

Perhaps make a copy of the fonts elsewhere and delete them from your system font directory and see if that gives you any boost in performance. If so...that might be the issue. Are you on CS3??

----- Original Message -----

From: Eriya Ito

To: XSI(at)Softimage.COM

Sent: Wednesday, May 14, 2008 10:27 PM

Subject: Probably OT: Photoshop sluggishness

 

Probably OT but I can’t seem to find other places to ask where

most of you all have the same PC environment as I do.

 

Photoshop is terribly sluggish on my Vista x64, 4GB RAM PC.

Specially when it comes to working on video captions.

Is it that I have too many fonts installed, approx 4400 of them!

I kind of suspect it’s the graphics card (nVidia 3450) because

I’ve heard of difference in performance in Matrox cards and nvidia cards

when it comes to working in 2D stuff. Any hidden tweaks for the graphics card

that might make this even a tad fast?

 

Anybody experience similar, strange behavior?

Any comments greatly appreciated. Offlist?

Thanks a bunch all!

 

Eriya