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Siddean Munro
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Join date: 21 Apr 2007
Posts: 113
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11-18-2007 04:15
When working in photoshop CS2, with the SL windlight viewer open on my second monitor, photoshop freezes after a few moments and has to be shut down via task list. I thought I'd ask here since you guys are probably going to be doing something similar when you're working on textures. Anyone else noticed this? I noticed today, which is the first time I've used the windlight and the photoshop at the same time. Now I have the regular viewer open and I'm not having any problems.
Wondering if it's something I should mention on the bug tracker thingy?
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Chosen Few
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Join date: 16 Jan 2004
Posts: 7,496
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11-18-2007 05:52
It's probably worth reporting as a bug, yes. However, I'd also look at your own system specs. PS and SL are both resource hogs, more so with each new version. It's not uncommon for them to both try to go after the same memory, causing one or the other to freeze. On my old machine, the whole thing would lock up every time I'd try to access a menu in PS if SL was running at the same time. I had no choice then but to get really good at memorizing shortcuts.
Now, I with 2.5GB of RAM, a quad core, and two 768MB video cards, I don't experience freezing anymore, but SL does crash on me several times a day, and Photoshop is pretty much always running when it does. I don't know for an absolute fact that one has to do with the other, but my feeling is that it does.
My advice, RAM is so cheap these days, up your system to its maximum amount of memory and see if that helps. I'd bet that it will. Also, in Photoshop's preferences, you can tell it a maximum amount of RAM it's allowed to use. Keep the amount at no more than half of your total system RAM.
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Chip Midnight
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Join date: 1 May 2003
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11-18-2007 09:01
You might try doing it the other way around. Put SL on monitor 1 and Photoshop on monitor 2. SL is very taxing on the video card and will run much better on your primary monitor. Photoshop is less taxing and should work okay on your 2nd. That's how I have it configured when I run both at the same time (though I haven't done it with the WindLight viewer). If you're running two graphics cards like Chosen is it shouldn't make a difference, but if you're pushing dual monitors from a single dual head card, you should always put the most taxing app on monitor 1. I'm running two 1600x1200 displays from a single nvidia 7600 GT with 256mb of RAM. SL runs fine in windowed mode on my setup as long as it's on display 1. If it's on 2 it gets only a fraction of the framerate it gets on 1 and is barely useable.
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Govindira Galatea
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Join date: 6 Mar 2004
Posts: 416
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Similar problem...
11-18-2007 09:28
Thought it's not PS, when I use PaintShopPro XI and SL, PSP XI hogs so much cpu resource (a PSP XI bug reported on the Corel site), --way more than it needs-- that the two slow my system to a crawl. So, in the Task Manager Processes window, I right click on PSP XI's process and set priority for it to be Below Normal. It makes PSP XI slightly vulnerable to a crash --so I save more often-- but mostly it makes it possible to work normally and have both open.
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Siddean Munro
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Join date: 21 Apr 2007
Posts: 113
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11-19-2007 00:06
Thanks for the advice guys! I have a fairly decent machine, nothing like yours Chosen, but enough to run the most resource hungry 3D MMO games without too many issues. I have 2gb of ram already, so I can look at upgrading there, but I'll give it a go running SL on my primary monitor and PS on the secondary and see what happens 
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Void Singer
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Join date: 24 Sep 2005
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11-19-2007 02:50
you could also consider minimizing SL when you aren't actively using it for reference, just remember to uncheck the debug setting in client for go afk/idle so you don't slump over and get logged out while working
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Tarina Sewell
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Join date: 20 Jul 2007
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11-23-2007 08:21
I use PS7 and sometimes when I have SL & PS open my PC does freeze up as well and I have to reboot... I have a geforce 8800 and Intel dual cpu with 2gb ram ... running vista.
Usually if I go to a live show and set ava to dance then work in PS... But it happens at home too when Im just standing there with no stream... so?
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Lee Ponzu
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Join date: 28 Jun 2006
Posts: 1,770
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probably irrelevant, but...
11-23-2007 12:33
About a year ago, I calibrated my Mac monitor (from inside PS).
SL stopped working. After wrestling with this for awhile, I reset my monitor to the default setting, and SL started working again. I repeated this once to be sure.
Now, that was a year ago, and a different Mac and a different SL, but I thought I would mention it.
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