Poor performance.

[20inchthomas]

Hey all,

U have a macbook, with 512mg ram and for some reason performance is really crap with the adobe cs2 suite. I understand its a graphics program, and wont be that quick on a laptop with a small amount of ram, but even performaning very simple tasks within the software its crap!

Also for some reason when i have indesign and illustrator open, they seem to cause each other to crash randomly. However independently, they are stable.

Any experinced this?

Cheers and thanks in advance.
-Tom

[Giaguara]

When you have 512 MB RAM on that Mac, it will have about 450 MB RAM available for the RAM use - the rest is used for graphics. As OS X itself is a bit RAM hungry already, that does not leave much for the other RAM hungry programs.
With 1 GB or 2 GB of RAM CS Suite will run a lot smoother.

[20inchthomas]

Yeah understand that, but surely that isnt the cause of them crashing one another!

[Invicster]

Hi Tom,

You should probably read Adobe's support notes for the Intel Macs:

http://www.adobe.com/products/pdfs/intelmacsupport.pdf

They advise that you should have at least 1GB of RAM installed if you're planning to run more than one Creative Suite app at the same time.

So your having only 512MB installed might explain why you're experiencing the crashes as all the CS apps are quite memory hungry, even more so under Rosetta (I believe the normal benchmark is that an app will need around double it's normal memory requirements under Rosetta. Someone please correct me if I'm wrong there).

When I first got my MacBook I only had 512MB installed and was having problems similar to yours. Now I have 1GB everything's fine.

[MisterMe]

The Adobe CS2 suite must run in Rosetta, which adds to its RAM requirements.

[20inchthomas]

Thanks for your replies. However i understand with the ram, but i dont think thats the problem. As ram shouldnt cause a program to crash i wouldnt think ... and i have a friend with the same model laptop with 2gb of ram, does the same thing.

[simbalala]

We don't see a lot of posts here with this problem (CS2).

I wouldn't even try to run a CS2 app on the G4 Powerbook with only 500MB ram (and it runs native on the Powerbook). The first thing you need to do is up the memory (probably another 1GB) then see what happens.

What happens on your friend's machine is not really relevant to your problem.

[fryke]

I have a MacBook with 2 GB RAM, and my Adobe CS 2 apps rarely crash. I usually have 3 or 4 of them open at any time. It really *IS* a RAM related problem, believe us and Adobe if we tell you that 512 MB of RAM for running two Adobe CS 2 apps in Rosetta is simply not enough.