Photoshop cs5/bridge & memory problems

[HYMANBALFOURLEIBMAN]

I have 2 x hard drives each 500 gb, Plus 4 gb RAM. Thus when I installed Photoshop CS5 and tried to save from ACR direct to a jpeg in a file on my hard drive I was shut out by a window telling me, "Cannot save - not enough memory." I phoned the supplier of Photoshop and have drawn a blank. I have been to preferences in Photoshop and set the available memory at 60% but even though it is a little better it is not by any means as good as CS4, CS3 or CS2. The preference file tells me I have + - 1650 mbs available and I have set it at about 965 mb. It saves perfectly into bridge from ACR but does not like the files on my hard drive for some unknown reason. Nobody has been able to explain the reason or the cure. My computer is 6 months old and is very fast, has Windows 7 (32 bit) as the OS. My CS4 worked fine on my old computer with 2 gb RAM and XP as the OS.
What gives?

[OldBoy]

Originally Posted by HYMANBALFOURLEIBMAN

I have 2 x hard drives each 500 gb, Plus 4 gb RAM. Thus when I installed Photoshop CS5 and tried to save from ACR direct to a jpeg in a file on my hard drive I was shut out by a window telling me, "Cannot save - not enough memory." I phoned the supplier of Photoshop and have drawn a blank. I have been to preferences in Photoshop and set the available memory at 60% but even though it is a little better it is not by any means as good as CS4, CS3 or CS2. The preference file tells me I have + - 1650 mbs available and I have set it at about 965 mb. It saves perfectly into bridge from ACR but does not like the files on my hard drive for some unknown reason. Nobody has been able to explain the reason or the cure. My computer is 6 months old and is very fast, has Windows 7 (32 bit) as the OS. My CS4 worked fine on my old computer with 2 gb RAM and XP as the OS.
What gives?

May need to increase the size of the Windows Swap file to 3gb.

[neil_ross]

not sure if this will help but have you tried increasing the camera raw cache?

bridge > edit > camera raw preferences > camera raw cache

[H4V0C]

Had this issue with master suite,my pc's a custom built i7 with 6gb of ram specifically designed it to do photoediting and gaming so is quick.
i tried a few things but couldnt fix it,so reformated Cs5's personal drive and reinstalled,works fine now

[cosmicma]

gonna say it sounds like a problem with cs5 itself but the above poster beat me to it

when i come across " out of memory errors " it's usually corrupt file/program errors or viral related

another path is to do an intensive memory check/test there are plenty of utils to do this if you do a google search
although windows does and bios does a memory check it's not thorough enough to determine if it's faulty or not

[JohnN]

I had no problem with CS5 or Bridge untill I loaded Notton 360 onto my machine, it was worning fine with Norton Internet security.

Does this give anyone a clue to the problem?

If so please help.

[OldBoy]

Originally Posted by JohnN

I had no problem with CS5 or Bridge untill I loaded Notton 360 onto my machine, it was worning fine with Norton Internet security.

Does this give anyone a clue to the problem?

If so please help.

That could be your problem. Norton is very intensive in using memory mainly for scanning disks. Had the same problem with McAfee which insisted on scanning the disks all the time, so turned that option off. You only need to scan a disk weekly/monthly as a rule of thumb. If you do Crt+Alt+Del to bring up Task Manager, click on the performance tab and watch your CPU and Physical memory usage. Then click on the processes tab and see which program is using all your resources. You could also click on the resources monitor button and have that running as you try to do some work, this will also show what is stealing all your memory.

[JohnN]

Thanks to OldBoy, I have tried watching in task manager and it appears that as each image is opened from Bridge/Raw Converter it adds to the Memory claimed by CS5, when the image is closed the memory is not realeased, the cumalitive efect is that CS5 is taking more and more memory.

[OldBoy]

Originally Posted by JohnN

Thanks to OldBoy, I have tried watching in task manager and it appears that as each image is opened from Bridge/Raw Converter it adds to the Memory claimed by CS5, when the image is closed the memory is not realeased, the cumalitive efect is that CS5 is taking more and more memory.

Have you tried increasing the size of your Windows Swap File, as this is where Windows puts stuff when memory becomes low.