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Thread ID: 15216	2002-02-01 01:41:00	Adobe Photoshop 6.00 & Windows XP	Guest (0)	Press F1

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33820	2002-02-01 01:41:00	I have loaded Adobe Photoshop on to my new computer which is running windows XP. It worked fine on Windows 2000 before the upgrade - now all the images on the screen are fussy. When installing Adobe a pop up window appeared saying 'You currently have Adobe Photoshop's primary Scratch and Windows' primary paging file on same volume, which can result in reduced performance. It is recommended that you set Adobe Photoshop's primary Scratch volume to be on a different volume, preferably on a different physical drive' Would this affect the quality of the image on my screen? I do not understand what the window means - can anyone help me. Thanks	Guest (0)
33821	2002-02-01 02:14:00	It's basically telling you that your paging file (swap file) is on the same partition as Adobe. The page file is like a swapping ground between your RAM and Hard Drive. RAM has loaded what is displayed on your screen, page file usually keeps what is loaded but not needed yet. There can be a lot of activity going on between these two places which can downgrade your performance. I guess Adobe uses these two places a lot so it recommends having it in a different location. Like seperate hard drive or partition. It should affect the quality though. I would believe it to use the hard drive a lot but not reduce picture quality. Maybe it does, I'm not sure.	Guest (0)
33822	2002-02-01 02:15:00	Sorry it should have said It shouldn't in the last paragraph. I pressed post sure the error corrected it then stopped myself making a multiple post.	Guest (0)
33823	2002-02-01 03:36:00	Hi Sheila, To get any appreciable performance advantage, Photoshop's scratch disc would have to be on a second physical drive, not simply a partition. If you have such a drive, you can make Photoshop use it by specifying it in the scratch disk section of Photoshop's Preferences. As to the 'fuzzy' image, that is a video issue, not related to the swapfile message. Ensure that the resolution you have specified for XP is a suitable one for your system and the colour depth you have chosen is appropriate. Rule of thumb: 15' monitor, 800x600 up to 1024x768, in 24 bit colour. 17' monitor, 1024x768 up to 1280x1024, in 24 bit colour. 19' monitor, 1152x864 up to 1600x1200, in 24 bit colour. 21' monitor, 1280x1024 up to 1600x1200 (or higher if supported), in 24 bit colour. Note that 24 bit colour is reccommended for Photoshop, in order to get the most accurate colour matching for print output. For web work, 16 bit colour is more than adequate and may give you a boost in speed. (Albeit a small one). Since your system is a new one there is little likelihood that changing your video settings will cause you any problems. If by some chance you get scrambled video after you change things, wait and Windows will resore your old settings in 15 seconds, which should give you your screen display back. Good luck. :-)	Guest (0)
33824	2002-04-09 01:44:00	I have this same problem and I even changed the scratch file volume to my second drive but it still takes like 75 seconds to load photoshop... AMD xp 1900 512 MB Ram 1x20 Gig Seagate 1x20 Gig Western Digital	Guest (0)
33825	2002-04-09 01:44:00	I have this same problem and I even changed the scratch file volume to my second drive but it still takes like 75 seconds to load photoshop... AMD xp 1900 512 MB Ram 1x20 Gig Seagate 1x20 Gig Western Digital	Guest (0)
33826	2002-04-09 01:44:00	I have this same problem and I even changed the scratch file volume to my second drive but it still takes like 75 seconds to load photoshop... AMD xp 1900 512 MB Ram 1x20 Gig Seagate 1x20 Gig Western Digital	Guest (0)
33827	2002-04-09 01:45:00	I have this same problem and I even changed the scratch file volume to my second drive but it still takes like 75 seconds to load photoshop... AMD xp 1900 512 MB Ram 1x20 Gig Seagate 1x20 Gig Western Digital	Guest (0)
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