7 Replies Latest reply: Aug 13, 2009 3:19 PM by nihilmatters RSS

    Slow Paint Brush Drawing In CS4 - Need Optimization Advice

    suzzie12 Community Member

      I am having problems with  my brush drawing slowly.  I am retouching an 8x10" 300dpi 8 bit image and using a soft brush at 15% opacity.  It could take 5 or 10 seconds for the brush to finish drawing a 6 inch long soft line.  There is a delay and I cant do anything else till it finishes.

       

      I Have Photoshop CS4 running on Windows  XP on a 3 gig machine... with 4 gigs of RAM.  I am using 55% memory for the allocation with 20 histroy states and 4 for the cache. I have 1.6 Gigs of available memory and 37 gigs free in a separate scratch disk. I have a Radeon 9800 dual card with 125 megs onboard memory.

       

      Do I need to reset preferences because of something funny?  My system seerms to be fast enough...but I may need a new video card possibly...I dont have GL2 enabled because its grayed out.  My version of CS3 works fine.

       

      Thanks for the ideas

       

      Suzzie