Re: [APML] 'Puter Questions

["Mike Connors" <micon@starband.net>]

Warren,

 

As others have mentioned, you should increase your RAM.  I am also running a PII-450 but with 256MB RAM.

I performed some 'typical' operations in PS 5.5 on a 52.7Mb file:  Levels, Curves took 2-3 seconds.  Gaussian blur radius of 1.3 pixels was 5 seconds.  Using W98SE.   It'll probably cost about $20 for a generic 128MB PC100 SDRAM module, $30 if you get a 256MB module.  Assuming that this is what your machine eats.

 

HTH

 

Mike Connors 

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

From: Warren A. Keller

To: apml

Sent: Tuesday, October 22, 2002 11:25 PM

Subject: [APML] 'Puter Questions

Gents.

           I'm still limping along on a Pentium II, 64 RAM. PS v.6 and other large programs, has it behaving like a drunken snail, and seems a bit unstable with fairly frequent lock-ups and error messages. (# of stack pages, fatal exception...)

 

Would an additional memory card help this, or is it more a result of the processing chip speed? Time for a new one?!

 

Also along these lines, are there problems, with any stage of post processing, including smoothing, on a compressed TIFF file since a 22 MB, 35mm full-frame takes an unpractical eternity here?

 

Thanks everyone!

 

Warren A. Keller
Billions and Billions- Astrophotos
www.billionsandbillions.com