garry edwards Posted February 2, 2007 Share Posted February 2, 2007 Situation: Just trying to get to grips with a brand new PC running on XP Pro, fast processor, 4Gb Ram, loads of disk storage. For some reason CS2 won't recognise it's own serial No. so I've reinstalled CS. Memory allocation set to 85%. Problem: Getting an error message when I try to open a single 12.6Mb raw file - Could not meet your request because there is not enough memory (RAM) Does anyone know where I'm going wrong please? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Howard Posted February 2, 2007 Share Posted February 2, 2007 Could it be asking about Video RAM? On this new computer, is the video board built into the motherboard, and if so, how much memory is shared for video? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phoneguy Posted February 2, 2007 Share Posted February 2, 2007 Did you try backing the Ram allocation down from the 85%...Try 60% and see what it does? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
garry edwards Posted February 3, 2007 Author Share Posted February 3, 2007 Thanks for the answers. Turning the allocation down from 85% to 50% did the trick, although I have no idea why it can't cope with more RAM... I'll try experimenting with it to get the optimum allocation, but meanwhile I can get on with my work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
martin_howard1 Posted February 3, 2007 Share Posted February 3, 2007 PS CS2 can only address 2Gb of RAM directly, this is a limitation of 32bit windows platforms. MAC's & windows 64 editions can address around 3.5 Gb. details on a fix to allow 3Gb to be addressed can be found <a href="http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/system/platform/server/PAE/PAEmem.mspx">here</a> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pturton Posted February 3, 2007 Share Posted February 3, 2007 If you add the 3GB switch to your boot.ini file CS2 will address more than 2GB RAM. Google "/3gb boot.ini" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phoneguy Posted February 7, 2007 Share Posted February 7, 2007 Paul, does the 3GB switch work in XP Home edition, or only XP Pro? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
garry edwards Posted February 8, 2007 Author Share Posted February 8, 2007 Well, I've got the answer to my question - and many thanks for that - but could someone please give me an idiots guide to how I actually set the 3GB switch? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phoneguy Posted February 8, 2007 Share Posted February 8, 2007 <a href="http://softimage.wiki.avid.com/index.php/How_To:_Set_the_/3GB_Switch">Here's the easy guide</a> It appears that you must have XP Pro, w/ SP2 (Service Pack 2) installed. It doesn't appear that it can be done on other versions of XP, but I'm still looking into it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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