Photoshop Elements 2018 memory problems - unable to edit and save files

Report · Dec 09, 2017

I have a reasonably powerful computer (Intel I7-4790K 4Ghz, 32Gb RAM, a minimum of 165 Gb of free disk space on each of my three drives, and Win 10 Pro 64 bit v1709_16299.19), I am working 100% ok with a range of programs (including other photo apps) so I don't believe the problem is with my computer.

Photoshop Elements 2018 is currently completely unusable as I am unable to edit and save files (eg raw and jpgs).

Example 1: I can open a canon raw file in ACR and make the desired adjustments, I then click open image to transfer to photoshop. Very often I'm content with the raw development and just want to save the file as a psd or jpg. For PSD > I do file save as, type a name, click save, and get an error pop-up box "Could not save as path\xxxx because there is not enough memory (RAM)". The xmp sidecar file is created. For JPG > I enter the name and get the "jpg option" box, I select max quality / lowest compression and get an error pop-up box "Photoshop Elements 2018 Editor has stopped working. A problem caused the program to stop working correctly. Windows will close the program and notify you if a solution is available". I click OK, the msg box disappears, and Win 10 shows no notifications.

Example 2: I open a jpg file, make a few adjustments (eg levels, contrast, haze removal) and do file save as, and get the error pop-up box "Could not save as \...\xxxx.jpg because there is not enough memory (RAM)". Even trying to save as a jpg with the lowest quality throws up the same error msg box. I have to do OK to the error msg box and close the file without saving. Viewing task manager whilst the program is running (with a 3.2 Mb jpg open) shows that 108.6 Mb RAM is used by PhotoshopElementsEditor.exe, with only 13% of the total available RAM used by all running processes.

I suspect the problem is to do with the PS Elements 2018 memory settings - particularly RAM, however I am unable to access the preferences > performance section to make any changes.

I can open and adjust every "preferences" section (apart from performance) and the program remains responsive - General, Saving files, Scratch disks, Display & cursors, Transparency, Units & rulers, Guides & grid, Pug-ins, Adobe partner services, Application updates, Type, Country/region selection.

However as soon as I click the performance section I get a msg box "An integer between 50 and 8 is required. Closest value inserted". I then click OK to close it (it pops up twice each time), and from then on I can no longer access the other preferences sections as the same msg keeps popping up. I have to close and re-open the preferences box to access the other areas.

So how can I amend the performance settings and hopefully get the program working correctly? If I can't use the built-in tools is there a way of manually editing a file that stores the performance settings? Where is the preferences file located? As a test I could make a change in one of the other preferences sections and see whether the file updates (ie are the write/edit permissions ok etc).

So far I have:

1. Uninstalled, rebooted and re-installed the program

2. I did ctrl+alt+shift when starting Photoshop to delete the settings file

3. I deleted the folder C:\Users\UserID\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\Photoshop Elements and rebooted

4. I have run from an admin command prompt - c:\Windows\System32>sfc /scannow - with no problems, and the event logs show "Windows has scanned the file system and found no problems. No further action is required".

5. I have used Adobe application manager to check for updates and my system is up-to-date. I have updated to Adobe Photoshop Camera Raw v10.0.0.827.

None of the above actions resolved the problem and I am still unable to open the performance settings, and cannot edit and save files.

My PC, the OS and all other programs are working correctly without any problems. I believe the problem lies with Adobe Photoshop Elements 2018. Re-installing the OS and all other programs is not an option for me - I would like Adobe to fix the product by releasing an update, or assist me to make a fix and get my paid for software working.

Doing a search on the internet and the Adobe site shows that I am not the only person experiencing this type of problem.

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Adobe system info:

Adobe Photoshop Elements Version: 16.0 (20170902.m.113423) x64

Operating System: Windows 10 64-bit

Version: 10 or greater

System architecture: Intel CPU Family:6, Model:12, Stepping:3 with MMX, SSE Integer, SSE FP, SSE2, SSE3, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX, AVX2, HyperThreading

Physical processor count: 4

Logical processor count: 8

Processor speed: 4000 MHz

Built-in memory: 32646 MB

Free memory: 29986 MB

Memory available to Photoshop Elements: 8 MB

Memory used by Photoshop Elements: 100 %

Image tile size: 128K

Image cache levels: 6

Font Preview: Medium

TextComposer: Latin

Display: 1

Display Bounds: top=0, left=0, bottom=1200, right=1920

OpenGL Drawing: Disabled.

License Type: Perpetual

Serial number: 91550146063418215532

Feature::Dummy Feature: OFF

Application folder: C:\Program Files\Adobe\Photoshop Elements 2018\

Temporary file path: C:\Users\UserID\AppData\Local\Temp\

Photoshop Elements scratch has async I/O enabled

Scratch volume(s):

Startup, 300.1G, 262.1G free

Required Plug-ins folder: C:\Program Files\Adobe\Photoshop Elements 2018\Required\Plug-Ins\

Primary Plug-ins folder: C:\Program Files\Adobe\Photoshop Elements 2018\Plug-Ins\

Additional Plug-ins folder: not set

Installed components:

ACE.dll ACE 2017/04/18-17:59:35 79.581797 79.581797

AdbePM.dll PatchMatch 0000/00/00-00:00:00 1. 1.

AdobeLinguistic.dll Adobe Linguisitc Library 10.0.0

AdobeOLS.dll Adobe Online Services 5.0

AdobeOwl.dll Adobe Owl 5.2.9

AdobePDFL.dll PDFL 2017/01/06-01:09:52 79.211776 79.211776

AdobePIP.dll Adobe Product Improvement Program 7.4.1.63.45453

AdobeXMP.dll Adobe XMP Core 2017/03/02-16:59:38 79.160302 79.160302

AdobeXMPFiles.dll Adobe XMP Files 2017/03/02-16:59:38 79.160302 79.160302

adobe_caps.dll Adobe CAPS 10,0,0,8

AGM.dll AGM 2017/04/18-17:59:35 79.581797 79.581797

ahclient.dll AdobeHelp Dynamic Link Library 2.2.0.1

amtlib.dll AMTLib (64 Bit) 10.0.0.214 BuildVersion: 10.0; BuildDate: Tue Jun 13 2017 8:28:8) 1.000000

ARE.dll ARE 2017/04/18-17:59:35 79.581797 79.581797

AutoSelection.dll Adobe Photoshop Editor 16.0

AXE8SharedExpat.dll AXE8SharedExpat 2017/02/24-17:53:28 79.580410 79.580410

AXEDOMCore.dll AXEDOMCore 2017/02/24-17:53:28 79.580410 79.580410

Bib.dll BIB 2017/04/18-17:59:35 79.581797 79.581797

BIBUtils.dll BIBUtils 2017/04/18-17:59:35 79.581797 79.581797

boost_date_time.dll photoshopdva 8.0.0

boost_signals.dll photoshopdva 8.0.0

boost_system.dll photoshopdva 8.0.0

boost_threads.dll photoshopdva 8.0.0

cast_api.dll Cast 1.0

cg.dll NVIDIA Cg Runtime 3.0.00007

cgGL.dll NVIDIA Cg Runtime 3.0.00007

CITThreading.dll Adobe CITThreading 2.1.0.1 2.1.0.1

CoolType.dll CoolType 2017/04/18-17:59:35 79.581797 79.581797

dvaaudiodevice.dll photoshopdva 8.0.0

dvacore.dll photoshopdva 8.0.0

dvamarshal.dll photoshopdva 8.0.0

dvamediatypes.dll photoshopdva 8.0.0

dvametadata.dll photoshopdva 8.0.0

dvametadataapi.dll photoshopdva 8.0.0

dvametadataui.dll photoshopdva 8.0.0

dvaplayer.dll photoshopdva 8.0.0

dvatransport.dll photoshopdva 8.0.0

dvaui.dll photoshopdva 8.0.0

dvaunittesting.dll photoshopdva 8.0.0

dynamiclink.dll photoshopdva 8.0.0

ems.dll Elements Organizer 16.0

ExtendScript.dll ExtendScript 2016/01/26-16:09:33 80.1060872 80.1060872

Eyeopener.dll Adobe Photoshop Editor 16.0

FaceDetector.dll FaceDetector 0000/00/00-00:00:00 2.0.1.1 2.0.1.1

icucnv40.dll International Components for Unicode 2014/10/31-16:52:45 Build gtlib_6.0.21339

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JP2KLib.dll JP2KLib 2017/03/17-01:07:02 79.265847 79.265847

libeay32.dll The OpenSSL Toolkit 1.0.1p

libifcoremd.dll Intel(r) Visual Fortran Compiler 10.0 (Update A)

libiomp5md.dll Intel(R) OpenMP* Runtime Library 5.0

libmmd.dll Intel(r) C Compiler, Intel(r) C++ Compiler, Intel(r) Fortran Compiler 12.0

LogSession.dll LogSession 7.4.1.63.45453

mediacoreif.dll photoshopdva 8.0.0

mona.dll Adobe Photoshop Editor 16.0

MPS.dll MPS 2017/03/21-04:44:30 79.581008 79.581008

pdfsettings.dll Adobe PDFSettings 1.04

Photoshop.dll Adobe Photoshop Elements Editor 16.0

platform.DLL Adobe Help System 1, 0, 0, 1

Plugin.dll Adobe Photoshop Editor 16.1

PSArt.dll Adobe Photoshop Elements Editor 16.0

PSViews.dll Adobe Photoshop Elements Editor 16.0

ScCore.dll ScCore 2016/01/26-16:09:33 80.1060872 80.1060872

seledit.dll Seledit 1.0

ssleay32.dll The OpenSSL Toolkit 1.0.1p

svml_dispmd.dll Intel(r) C Compiler, Intel(r) C++ Compiler, Intel(r) Fortran Compiler 12.0

tbb.dll Intel(R) Threading Building Blocks for Windows 4, 4, 2016, 0412

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VulcanControl.dll Vulcan Application Control Library 5.2.0.35

VulcanMessage5.dll Vulcan Message Library 5.2.0.35

WRServices.dll WRServices Thu Jan 07 2016 04:50:10 Build 0.21960 0.21960

Required plug-ins:

Accented Edges 16.1

Adjust Facial Features 16.0

Angled Strokes 16.1

Auto Divide 12.0.1

Auto Shake Reduction 16.0

Average 16.1 (2015.1 x001 x003)

Bas Relief 16.1

BMP 16.0

Camera Raw 10.0

Camera Raw Filter 10.0

Chalk & Charcoal 16.1

Charcoal 16.1

Chrome 16.1

Clouds 16.1 (2015.1 x001 x003)

Color Halftone 16.0

Colored Pencil 16.1

Comic 13.0

CompuServe GIF 16.0

Conté Crayon 16.1

Correct Camera Distortion 16.0

Craquelure 16.1

Crop and Straighten Photos Filter 16.0

Crosshatch 16.1

Crystallize 16.0

Cutout 16.1

Dark Strokes 16.1

Difference Clouds 16.1 (2015.1 x001 x003)

Diffuse Glow 16.1

Displace 16.0

Dry Brush 16.1

Extrude 16.0

FastCore Routines 16.1 (2015.1 x001 x003)

Fibers 16.0

Film Grain 16.1

Filter Gallery 16.1

Fresco 16.1

Glass 16.1

Glowing Edges 16.1

Grain 16.1

Graphic Novel 13.0

Graphic Pen 16.1

Halftone Pattern 16.1

Ink Outlines 16.1

Lens Blur 16.1

Lens Flare 16.0

Liquify 16.0

Matlab Operation 16.1 (2015.1 x001 x003)

Mezzotint 16.0

MMXCore Routines 16.1 (2015.1 x001 x003)

Mosaic Tiles 16.1

Multiprocessor Support 16.1 (2015.1 x001 x003)

Neon Glow 16.1

Note Paper 16.1

Ocean Ripple 16.1

OnEdge 1, 0, 0, 1

Paint Daubs 16.1

Palette Knife 16.1

Patchwork 16.1

Pen and Ink 13.0

Photocopy 16.1

Picture Package Filter 16.1 (2015.1 x001 x003)

Pinch 16.0

Pixar 16.1 (2015.1 x001 x003)

Plaster 16.1

Plastic Wrap 16.1

PNG 16.0

Pointillize 16.0

Polar Coordinates 16.0

Poster Edges 16.1

Radial Blur 16.0

Read Watermark 4.0

Reticulation 16.1

Ripple 16.0

Rough Pastels 16.1

Save for Web 16.0

ScriptingSupport 16.1

Shake Reduction 16.0

Shear 16.0

Smart Blur 16.0

Smudge Stick 16.1

Solarize 16.1 (2015.1 x001 x003)

Spatter 16.1

Spherize 16.0

Sponge 16.1

Sprayed Strokes 16.1

Stained Glass 16.1

Stamp 16.1

Straighten and Crop Image 12.0.1

Straighten Image 12.0.1

Sumi-e 16.1

Texturizer 16.1

Tiles 16.0

Torn Edges 16.1

Twirl 16.0

Underpainting 16.1

Water Paper 16.1

Watercolor 16.1

Wave 16.0

WIA Support 16.1 (2015.1 x001 x003)

Wind 16.0

ZigZag 16.0

Optional and third party plug-ins: NONE

Plug-ins that failed to load: NONE

Installed TWAIN devices: NONE

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Report · May 24, 2018

Thanks! This helped for my PSE 15.

Regards

Rutger

The Netherlands

Report · May 24, 2018

Wow.......You deserve a medal Man !!!!!!!!

Thanks so much.......(and that dosn't say the half of it !!!!!!!)

Len M

Report · May 26, 2018

ssprengel Duizendmaal dank.......Het loopt weer geweldig.... Wat ben ik blij

Report · May 26, 2018

Merci infiniment !

Ca fonctionne parfaitement et votre explication était très claire.

Au passage, je ne remercie pas Adobe qui laisse les utilisateurs dans la panade!

JP

Report · May 26, 2018

The fix information is from Adobe, although it has something to do with Windows 10 changes after the software was released:

Invalid Numeric Entry - An integer between 96 and 8 is required

Report · May 26, 2018

Thank you! I made this fix in this afternoon (in France) 4 hours ago. I

read it in the forum.

You are right, it came with the last upgrade of Windows 10.

I would have liked to tell it but I didn't saw any place to say that

this last upgrade was a pain in the ... because of a number of problems

generated with applications.

Thank you a lot!

Jean-Pierre

Le 26/05/2018 à 19:33, ssprengel a écrit :

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Report · May 27, 2018

Ceci dit, il est vrai que le dernier update Windows est en cause. Mais comme Adobe a nos mails à tous, il serait de bon ton de nous prévenir du genre : "il y a un bug, soyez patients on travaille dessus".

Bon, on n'en mourra pas !

Report · May 27, 2018

Absolutely correct! Adobe should have notified all WIN 10 Photoshop customers that there was a potential problem, and when they had a solution all WIN 10 Photoshop customers should have been notified of it.

Report · Sep 16, 2018

I now have the same problem with Ram in Elements 14 and the above instructions haven't fixed the problem, when I had this problem some time ago it worked fine.

Ant help appreciated.

Thanks.

Carol

Report · Sep 16, 2018

This is what I get:

"Could not import the clipboard as there is not enough memory (Ram)"

This happened after I reset preferences on exiting programme as the Background/Foreground box wasn't changing when I tried to create

an oval vignette.

Thanks for looking.

Carol

Report · May 27, 2018

Thank you so much! I HATE Windows updates!! Your clear and concise explanation gave me the confidence to mess around in the Registry, and PSE14 is working again. I thought I'd lost it after getting the memory error message.

Kevin

Report · May 27, 2018

Thank you guys so much, this fixed all the errors and now Elements even opens probably 5-10x faster.

Report · May 29, 2018

hélas cela ne marche pas ! il serait temps que Adobe et microsoft trouve une solution raisonnable à ce probleme !

Report · May 29, 2018

lourdaisj34038006 wrote
hélas cela ne marche pas ! il serait temps que Adobe et microsoft trouve une solution raisonnable à ce probleme !

Cela ne marche pas pour vous. ok, compris.

Petit rappel:

- la solution détaillée par ssprengel est toujours là dans cette discussion, mais elle est noyée par le flot de nouveaux commentaires.

- elle fonctionne dans la plupart des réponses

- rien ne prouve qu'elle ait été correctement appliquée dans tous les autres cas.

- il y a des cas où cela n'a pas marché, et où le contrôle de l'ordinateur à été pris par Adobe (et même par Microsoft); Il s'est avéré qu'il y avait en plus d'autres problèmes qui ont pu être résolus.

- Les problèmes signalés sont divers et ne sont apparus qu'après la mise à jour de Windows... sauf que le problème de mémoire lui-même existait depuis des mois sur quelques ordinateurs avec des configs musclées (différentes versions d'Elements).

- D'après mes observations sur d'autres forums, il semble que la majorité des utilisateurs d'Elements n'aient pas ce problème, comme moi (mémoire 8GB).

- Les symptômes et messages d'erreur sont différents même si la cause supposée de la taille de RAM est commune ainsi que la solution du registre.

- Les problèmes avec le format jpeg peut être confondu avec un autre bug plus ancien.

- Le problème de mémoire existe aussi sur Photoshop, la solution est la même.

- Différentes versions d'Elements sont touchées, avec il me semble des symptômes un peu différents.

- Un autre bug ennuyeux est apparu en même temps avec la mise à jour de Windows (les fenêtres flottantes réduite à la dimension timbre poste). Rien à voir et pas de vraie solution à part désactiver cette préférence d'interface.

Il me semble donc que pour être utiles à la collectivité, les utilisateurs qui ont encore des problèmes devraient spécifier des informations permettant de savoir pourquoi leur cas est différent des autres utilisateurs comme moi.

- taille de RAM

- Informations système (menu Aide)

- type de disque (SSD?)

- configuration des disque de travail (scratchdisks)

- etc.

Report · May 29, 2018

Thank you so much !!! Your tutorial is perfect you save my life 😉 !

Christian M

Report · May 29, 2018

ssprengel that's brilliant it worked on photoshop elements 15. Came back home on 27th May had the integer problem that a number of between 50 and 8 was required. Also green bars kept coming up on every stage I done like image size and crop etc etc. anyway followed your tutorial and now sorted today the 29th May

Report · May 30, 2018

Very usefull, even an amateur like me could do it. Thanks a lot. And like somebody else on the forum said: Elements is faster now.

Report · Jun 01, 2018

Hi, when I go into HKEY_CURRENT_USER I have a list of things but not photoshop elements. Where do I look for it??? as It is on my desktop screen...…….Think I'm going to struggle with this as I'm not computer savy.

Report · Jun 01, 2018

benl59806898 wrote
Hi, when I go into HKEY_CURRENT_USER I have a list of things but not photoshop elements. Where do I look for it??? as It is on my desktop screen...…….Think I'm going to struggle with this as I'm not computer savy.

Is it a Microsoft Store version?

Otherwise, Photoshop Elements is under:

- Software

- Adobe.

Report · Jun 19, 2018

I am suffering from the same issue described here. However, my version of Elements 2018 is from the Microsoft store. I suspect that this is why I don't have an entry in the registry under: hkey current user > software > adobe.

Is anyone aware of a fix for this version? I have the same symptoms described elsewhere in the thread, i.e. the out of memory (RAM) message and the other message about an integer is required between 50 and 8 is required when trying to open the performance section of the preferences menu.

I'm happy with the process for adding values to the registry, just not sure where to apply it in my case, which is frustrating as it seems to be a known issue with a fix for other instances.

Report · Jun 19, 2018

ianr48427823 wrote
I am suffering from the same issue described here. However, my version of Elements 2018 is from the Microsoft store. I suspect that this is why I don't have an entry in the registry under: hkey current user > software > adobe.

There is a note about this in the help doc:

Error: An integer between 50 and 8 is required | Elements | Windows 10

Note:

If you have installed Photoshop Elements from Windows App Store, then you will not have the above-mentioned folder structure. You must create the specified folder structure within HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\

folder in your registry. The Photoshop Elements version number depends on the product’s version installed on your system. For example, for 2018 the folder name should be 16.0, for version 15 the folder name should be 15.0, and for version 14 the folder name should be 14.0.

Report · Jun 20, 2018

That worked a treat, thanks for the advice.

Ian

Report · Jun 01, 2018

This is again what worked for me:

The registry fix that worked for me:

Be very, very careful using Regedit.

Ensure PhotoShopElements 2018 (or 14.1 for me) (and all other applications) is closed when using regedit.

Run regedit (in Win 10: Click on the search circle. Type regedit – then select Regedit Run Command)

go to: hkey current user > software > adobe

in that list find photoshop elements and click on the version number (14 for me)

Double click on OverridePhysicalMemoryMB

change Base to decimal and then enter enter 8000 (eg 8000 MB for 8 GB RAM) (Maybe if you don’t have this much RAM set to 4000)

Click ok and close regedit

Hope that helps

Report · Jun 03, 2018

Merci pour moi ça a fonctionné super bien à première vue tout remarche

Report · Jun 10, 2018

Thank you this helped me out a lot.

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