Drawing magnifier and pics slow

[david_ceruti]

I have recently made the move to CS3 and notice that when I scroll through pics in bridge or when I use the

magnifier feature on the filmstrip view, the pics start as low resolution. pixilated images and increase the

resolution untill they are sharp. The time this takes adds up to a significant delay when going through a lot of

images.

 

The question is - to speed this up do I add more ram (I have 2 GB at the moment - and would have to change my

motherboard to add more) or plug in a better graphics card (I'm using a Nvidea GeForce 7300 GT) or a faster CPU

(have a 3.2 gHz Intell)?

 

Or is there something else I am missing?

 

Thanks

 

David

[john_oconnell14]

I'm interested to know what others think, but I'd say a graphics card with 512MB VRAM would speeds things up

[rene gm]

Bridge is scanning your images in the current folder. Whilie it does that, it is quite slow. If you wait, until

it is finished, things speed up.

[david_ceruti]

Thanks for the comments

 

Rene, I can understand that it will be slow when I first load the folder but how do I get the magnifier to draw

faster? It takse a significant amount of time even moving around within one photo

 

Thank you in advance

 

David

[rene gm]

Sorry, I did not read that question till now. I only can tell you how it is on my system (Intel dual core at

1.8 Ghz, with a NVDIA mobile graphics card). Once the images are scanned, clicking into the image

takes about 1-2 sec to load the high definition magnification. The mag window can then be moved

around freely with no delay.