virtual memory

[pumperray]

hi folks....i'm kinda new at this forum thing, but i do have a question i could use some help on. when i try to merge images in cs3, i get a message "not enough virtual memory". i have a dell xps210 w/4 gig memory running xp pro. i can do 3 images sometimes but never more, never more(poe). thanx for your help.........ray

[JDArt]

Hi, Ray. How much free hard drive space do you have? Virtual memory is usually about the "paging space" that a program has -- in other words, the fre hard drive space available.

[Jason Hermann]

I've had this issue as well on my laptop that only has 2 gig of ram. Photoshop is a memory hog and I find it doesn't do a good job of clearing the ram between different images.

for example: if you edit a 200meg file with lots of layers and then go into your task manager to see the ram being used it will usually be a lot! Then if you close out that file and start editing another, the ram will not clear. So your starting out on a new file with little to no ram available for PS.

The solution I found is just restarting PS after I edit large files. It's no big deal and only takes a minute or so. Then PS has fresh ram available for the new project.

I hope that helps.

Best,
Jay

[Epphoto]

I had the same problem before i buy my new PC
Here is a very easy and new way to do it
Make a new profile user on your PC
don't let anything else run on your new profile just the photoshop
log in any time you do photo work only
It work for me