PSE 4.0 Quick Editor slow

[oliphanj]

I have PSE 4.0 at home on my AMD 3400+ 1.0gig ram and it takes over 20-25 seconds or so to launch the quick editor. Then about 15-20 seconds to save the file. It is crazy. 3.0 was not like this.

Has anyone see this type of slowness before?

It is much faster on my Intel box at work which is a slower computer.

Thanks,
Jason

[Wendy]

Hi Jason...

... and welcome to the forum :)

At the moment we don't have too many people who have installed PSE4 ... so it may take a little while until one of them is online, but I'm sure that one of them will be able to help you :)


Wendy

[Carbone]

Simple suggestions :

- Defragment your hard drive
- Check for available free space (a couple of GBs, at least)
- Deactivate your anti-virus prior to running PSE4, just for testing
- Disable video acceleration, again, for testing.

Ray

[SteveM]

I have installed PSE 4.0 at home on my Athlon 2400+/1Gig Ram machine and I have found that loading of the palettes can be slow at times, but nothing like what you are mentioning. Also I have found that saving files is very quick and varies little from the performance of PSE 3.0.
One thing you might try is upgrading your graphics/video drivers to the latest version for your card with the highest level of OpenGL available, as I would be expecting Adobe to be making extensive use of OpenGL.
Another thing you might do, which you may have done already, is check that your Bios has the correct settings for your CPU and Ram as I have seen Bios autodetection get things horribly wrong.

[Wendy]

Hi Steve ...

.... and welcome to the forum :)


Wendy

[oliphanj]

I have noticed loading Threads takes much longer on one computer than another.. Ideas on that one.. I am trying the video card driver tonight..
How do I clear the catalog cache??

Thanks,
Jason

[Carbone]

Jason,

Try to clean your browser's cache. It usually gives a boost, especially if the cache is big.

In Internet Explorer, click on Option, General tab (first one), under Temporary Internet Files, click on Delete all files (and make sure to also put a checkmark in the local content). Click on Ok.

Could take between 1 minute to 10 minutes, depending on how bad your hard drive is fragmented.

Hope this helps !

Ray

[oliphanj]

I don't use IE. Firefox is the one and only.

Thanks,
Jason

[Carbone]

Jason,

Check the following image for FireFox (Firefox / Preferences) :

http://homepage.mac.com/carbmac/Firefox001.jpg

Ray