Elements 6 running slow

[bbowen0109]

I have PSE 6 and after doing very minor adjustments it will take up to 30 seconds to process. I have a new computer with window's vista and 3 gigs of memory. Is there an issue with PSE 6?

[sumneu]

I have the same problem. I bought my computer a couple a months ago.I figured it was VISTA not elements because I have similiar problems with other software since using VISTA

[RobertSchuldenfrei]

I have PSE 6 and after doing very minor adjustments it will take up to 30 seconds to process. I have a new computer with window's vista and 3 gigs of memory. Is there an issue with PSE 6?
Hi B,

It is clear you have plenty of RAM. That would have been the first thing I would have targeted. However, often PSE does not use the RAM it has available. Try this:

Edit > Preferences > Memory and Image Cache. Set Maximum Used by Photoshop Elements to 80%.

Another thing that slows PSE down is the scratch storage space used by Windows. Make sure that you have plenty of free disk space on your primary drive, usually the C: drive. It should have many gigs free such that when PSE needs to off-load RAM it has plenty of disk space with which to work. Remember that disk is 3 orders of magnitude (1000 times) slower than RAM! Since scratch storage is used by other running programs, the fewer programs that are running the better. I try not to have other "RAM hogs" running when I run PSE.

Let us know if this helps. There are other, more exotic, things we can try, but let's try the simple stuff first.

Good luck,

Bob

[pinpres]

Do you have a network printer as your default printer? If this is the case, try making another printer the default. If your default printer is on another PC on the network, and that printer is switched off, PSE6 seems to freeze whilst it tries to log on to the unavailable printer.

On my laptop it was taking nearly 30 seconds to open a file with a network printer as default, but only 2 seconds after the change.

Pinpres

[FlyBoy55]

Thanks Bob! It really made a difference.


It is clear you have plenty of RAM. That would have been the first thing I would have targeted. However, often PSE does not use the RAM it has available. Try this:

Edit > Preferences > Memory and Image Cache. Set Maximum Used by Photoshop Elements to 80%.

Another thing that slows PSE down is the scratch storage space used by Windows. Make sure that you have plenty of free disk space on your primary drive, usually the C: drive. It should have many gigs free such that when PSE needs to off-load RAM it has plenty of disk space with which to work. Remember that disk is 3 orders of magnitude (1000 times) slower than RAM! Since scratch storage is used by other running programs, the fewer programs that are running the better. I try not to have other "RAM hogs" running when I run PSE.

Let us know if this helps. There are other, more exotic, things we can try, but let's try the simple stuff first.

Good luck,

Bob[/quote]

[lowbone]

When I go to Edit/ Preferences/ there is nothing listed as memory cache. Is it listed under something else?

[lowbone]

I was just looking at my RAM distribution ( I'm not sure if that's the correct term ) and it says my available RAM is 1672 mb. Then it says the ideal range is 919 to1204 mb. After that it says let PSE use 919. Isn't this kind of low? Could this be my problem with buginess and slugishness? I hate to start changing numbers around without knowing what I am doing