SqueamishOssifrage
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I am running CS3 on a Vista laptop with 4GB (3GB usable) RAM. I am also using an 8GB Hagiwara PCI Express card, with 4GB (the max) allocated to ReadyBoost. What I would like to do is allocate the remaining 4GB on the Hagiwara card to the CS3 scratch disk. However, the scratch disk option in CS3 only allows me to select a fixed drive.
Can anybody help me with a registry hack (or similar) to force the scratch disk to go onto other than a fixed disk? I would be most grateful as I am trying to create a panorama from five 220MB scans, and it is slooooooooow!
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beejaybee
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However, the scratch disk option in CS3 only allows me to select a fixed drive.
For the very good reason that an ejectable drive needs to be ejected - if a drive containing active scratch space goes off line the application is certain to crash.
Try looking for a hack to make your PCI Express card appear to be a fixed drive.
Are you sure that the slowness is because of scratch file accesses? It could just be that working with five 220MB image files at the same time is moving around a hell of a lot of data....
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Fen
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Are you sure that the slowness is because of scratch file accesses? It could just be that working with five 220MB image files at the same time is moving around a hell of a lot of data....
Yeah. How much RAM do you have? And what other applications, background software, do you have running at the same time?
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Meredith
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I have made panoramas out of several images in the 180-200MB region in CS3 before. It took a good while do do them. You will just have to accept that it will take a while. I made one panorama out of 10 ~195MB images once. That took a few hours to complete.
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Fen
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Silly question...
What size are you making the panoramas?
I often make them from 6-8 files, but each file is at max... 40MB.
The resulting panorama is 6ft long at 300dpi
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SqueamishOssifrage
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Are you sure that the slowness is because of scratch file accesses? It could just be that working with five 220MB image files at the same time is moving around a hell of a lot of data....
Yeah. How much RAM do you have? And what other applications, background software, do you have running at the same time?
OK....
I use Sysinternals Autoruns just before a PS session, and kill just about everything I don't need, and then reboot to a pretty minimalist system. I can then allocate about 1.6GB to PS out of the available 3GB that Vista lets me see (Windows maps all sorts of stuff to the top of the 4GB address space). Once I start in on the job, there is a lot of disk thrashing going on.
The final image will be about 7000 by 18000 (images are in portrait mode) and will be printed to about 2 feet by 5 feet at 288 dpi.
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LargeFormat
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I am running CS3 on a Vista laptop with 4GB (3GB usable) RAM. I am also using an 8GB Hagiwara PCI Express card, with 4GB (the max) allocated to ReadyBoost.
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Yeah. How much RAM do you have?
Can I recommend an optician? 
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