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Anonymous
August 9, 2012
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could not complete your request because of a program error

  • August 9, 2012
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hey guys...

i am using photoshop cs6 exteneded since days, and i wrote a text in 3D mode. so after finishing it, i tried to render it. after finishing rendering, i try to save my work, then i get something like "could not save because there is not enough memoryRAM" and after some tries to save it, i get " could not complete your request because of a program error" it always happens.

i use windows 7 with intel core i3, 2.13 GHz, and RAM 4 GB

thax

Sam

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Noel Carboni
Noel Carboni
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August 9, 2012

Check the web site of the maker of your video card for the latest display driver they offer for your hardware and OS.

-Noel

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Anonymous
August 9, 2012

How much VRAM do you have on GPU?  Believe 512 is min. for certain functions of 3D.

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Anonymous
August 9, 2012

well, here are some info about my video card

name: NVIDIA GeForce GT 330M

approx. totall memory: 2225 MB

current display mode: 1366 x 768 (32bit) (59Hz)

so i wonder if that is not enough !

thax for the help

Noel Carboni
Noel Carboni
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August 26, 2012

That's probably a potent system, though I don't know anything about Acer specifically.  My expertise lies in Dell Precision Workstations, which are quite pricey (though one can find a dynamite off-cutting-edge system on eBay if one works at it).

Just some general comments: 

  • 16 GB will be "enough" to get good Photoshop performance, though you may find yourself working on ever bigger images as the future arrives.  A new system should be somewhat future-proof.

  • A 128 GB SSD invites some trouble.  Why?  Because when people try to squeeze all of the OS, their applications, then TEMP and scratch files in, it's simply not enough, and the tricks to move things to other drives both defeat the purpose of the high speed storage and also cause new problems (e.g., there are open threads here about people using small SSDs and having trouble running Photoshop once they've moved their User files to another drive).  Consider at least a 256 GB SSD if not more.

  • 2TB of spinning disk capacity is good, though an alternative might be, since SSD storage is arriving in the mainstream, to consider creating a large RAID array of SSDs as the system drive.  I have 2 TB of SSD space for drive C: myself, and it screams.  That's not cheap, though - the price of that much SSD could exceed the entire cost of the rest of the system.  But you could start smaller and add SSDs in the future.

  • I guess the ATI 7670 graphics card is *just* out, because I haven't seen it offered before.  I just read all about it, and it's decent (I have its predecessor from two generations back, the 5670, and it's very good for Photoshop), but for a new system with some future-proofing I'd consider going with a 7750 with a full 1 GB of GDDR5 RAM.  The price is not much higher.  I'm fond of the VisionTek brand of ATI cards myself.

  • Consider seeing if there's an upgrade to Windows 7 Pro from Home Premium (if not, I believe you can buy one from Microsoft after the fact, called an "anytime upgrade").

I was just reading more about that 4 core CPU you're thinking of getting...  Per the PassMark benchmark site, the i7-3770 scores 10,364, which is quite healthy for a single processor.  Individual core speed is good, which will be good for certain operations that are not multi-threaded, yet there are 4 true cores and hyperthreading for those operations that can use them.  It will work quite well with Photoshop.

This is just a list of my thoughts.  Offhand, what's your overall budget?  If I knew a dollar value I might be able to suggest some alternatives that might give you better performance.

-Noel


Just as an idea, thinking out of the traditional box.  This is almost the identical approach I took to get my current workstation quite inexepensively, and it's very powerful.  The prices I'm showing here are what I was able to find just now from eBay and various suppliers.

  • T5400 system from eBay with dual Xeon X5460 processors and an old video card, 2 x 500 GB HDDs:  $639
  • 2 x OCZ Vertex 4 256G SSDs (to become a 512 GB RAID 0 drive C:):  $406
  • VisionTek ATI Radeon HD 7850 2 GB GDDR5 card:  $210
  • Windows 7 x64 Pro license:  $140

You of course would have to use your current monitor and probably keyboard, mouse, etc. but those things can be purchased in addition to the system unit relatively inexpensively if you need them.  You might want to use whatever optical writer you currently have, or you can get a new one.  Even a high-end blu-ray writer is cheap at like $60.

Whatever you get, I suggest budgeting another $150 for a 3 TB external Western Digital MyBook USB drive for backups as well.

This is not tantamount to building a system - it's getting a full system and unplugging and changing out a few parts with high-end replacements.

For under $1500 this 8 core system will score 10,000+ on the PassMark benchmark, and will outperform most new systems.  How do I know this?  Because I personally have a T5400 with 16 GB and exactly those Xeon X5460 processors (though a lesser video card).  My workstation is quite powerful even by today's standards.  Photoshop comes up in 3 seconds, and I'm able to work on quite large images without any trouble.

You will be able to set the two SSDs up in RAID 0 arrangement, AND the two HDDs in RAID 0, AND the optical drive (there are 5 on-board SATA ports and an on-board Intel ESB2 RAID controller that Windows 7 knows how to use).  An option might be to get a couple more SSDs and make a 4 drive 1 TB C: drive.  Or you can add them later.

It's just a thought.

-Noel

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