PS CS3 crash

Moresco · Tue 29/01/2008 03:12:24

So hey, my PS crashed on me a few times today in XP. It kept happening as I was selecting and deleting pixels on a particular layer. Anyway, first time, it just quit responding...memory usage shot up to 400mb. I couldn't close the program, or even log off or reboot. Second time it crashed, I got a bluescreen ala IRQ conflict, which is weirdness. Third time it just went black and sat there forever. After all that I finally managed to finish my pixel selecting (you know, highlight something, go to Select and pick a color range to highlight and remove) and deleting process, and finally it was done crashing.

Anyone ever experience this in CS3 or another PS version? I googled but found nothing. Also as I reloaded my project it told me it had been damaged. I checked my drives as well, everything is in tip top shape according to surface scan. Anyway the "damaged" document looks fine, so I just resaved it as a backup project. There really needs to be some sort of recovery or autosave feature for PS.

Darth Mandarb · Tue 29/01/2008 03:28:14

I have been experiencing something similar with CS3 ... though I'm on Vista Pro. It just locks up periodically. Usually lasts about 45 seconds to 2 minutes (longest was 2 minutes). It's extremely annoying. I spent a long time on different forums trying to figure out why it happens and the best I could find was that pirated copies of CS3 do this.

Now I'm not saying my copy is pirated ... but that's the only excuse I could find for the weird behavior. It's never frozen permanently or crashed for me. It always comes back ... I just have to wait a bit. No less annoying though.

Moresco · Tue 29/01/2008 06:24:08

Quote from: Darth Mandarb on Tue 29/01/2008 03:28:14
I have been experiencing something similar with CS3 ... though I'm on Vista Pro. It just locks up periodically. Usually lasts about 45 seconds to 2 minutes (longest was 2 minutes). It's extremely annoying. I spent a long time on different forums trying to figure out why it happens and the best I could find was that pirated copies of CS3 do this.

Now I'm not saying my copy is pirated ... but that's the only excuse I could find for the weird behavior. It's never frozen permanently or crashed for me. It always comes back ... I just have to wait a bit. No less annoying though.

Mhm, well it hasn't reappeared just yet, and ran fine for the last year or so, maybe it's related to something else on my system. I'm crossing my fingers...

scotch · Tue 29/01/2008 08:03:20

CS3 locks up my PC all the time, I have the same issue on playing flash videos so it may not be CS3 specifically, but CS2 doesn't trigger it.

Evil · Tue 29/01/2008 08:46:30

I never have this problem with Photoshop CS3, but Illustrator CS3 gives me so much trouble. I think it's partly because it tuns on more memory, and whenever I'm using it I'm using 10 other things, but statistically it's worse.

Layabout · Wed 30/01/2008 01:04:46

PS CS3 was working absolutly lovely until one day last week where it gave me an error on startup and ceased to load up. It continued so i uninstalled it. It also affected my other cs3 programs.

MrColossal · Wed 30/01/2008 01:13:01

I'm thinking of downgrading back to cs2. I can't remember if there was a reason why I upgraded but whatever it is it's not worth the annoying.

No PSD thumbnails in windows is really one of the biggest deal breakers there is.

Moresco · Wed 30/01/2008 04:28:53

Quote from: MrColossal on Wed 30/01/2008 01:13:01
I'm thinking of downgrading back to cs2. I can't remember if there was a reason why I upgraded but whatever it is it's not worth the annoying.

No PSD thumbnails in windows is really one of the biggest deal breakers there is.

Wow dude, I didn't even notice that there weren't any thumbnails for them...that sucks gratuitous amounts of cheese. :/ I'm definitely sad now...yes, I feel sad.

radiowaves · Wed 30/01/2008 15:22:21

Probably here is a lesson to learn: Never use overly complicated and overly updated program for simple pixel selecting which you could probably do in the first PS too...

hedgefield · Wed 30/01/2008 17:58:15

Sometimes when I've been doing a lot of work in PS CS3 for about half an hour or something, my keyboard input screws up. The key shortcuts don't work anymore, and when I try to type special characters like - ; / _ ' ", they are replaced with different characters, as if someone had popped off my keys and switched 'em around...