Digital BW, The Print

Here's a great tip for anybody who has ever experienced frequent
freezing of the screen when using photoshop.

Find and remove the plugin: AltiVecCore. It's a plugin that comes with photoshop.

It is the cause of most of photoshop crashes. Got this advice on a
photoshop list. I removed it over a month ago and have not had a crash
since. I used to have them 3 or more times a day, doing nothing more
than retouching with the clone tool. Move the mouse one time too many,
and it crashed the program.

Jerry

Thank YOU for the tip, Jerry!

    After I finish printing my next exhibit I'll re-install PS and try that...

    ...HOWEVER, over the years, every Adobe application I've ever tried to 
use has locked my PCs (CtrlAltDel didn't work; I had to re-boot). After 
spending weeks on Adobe work-arounds and losing a harddrive to repeated 
re-booting I finally substituted PaintShopPro and GhostScript for the most 
necessary programs.

    Recently a neighbor told me that a driver used by my ISP 
(Netcom/Mindspring/Earthlink) conflicts with Adobe Reader and that since 
changing ISP HER lockup problem has disappeared.

    More recently, since the merger of Netcom/Mindspring & Earthlink, 
PaintShopPro has also developed a mild lockup problem (which I can 
sometimes CtrlAltDelete out of).

     This is not the forum for troubleshooting software-conflicts, but if 
anyone else has OVERCOME similar aggravations with their graphic programs, 
I'd like to hear from you at PatAT@....

    Thanks!

    Pat Thompson

At 11:43 AM 7/28/2002 -0500, you wrote:

>Here's a great tip for anybody who has ever experienced frequent
>freezing of the screen when using photoshop.
>
>Find and remove the plugin: AltiVecCore. It's a plugin that comes with 
>photoshop.
>
>It is the cause of most of photoshop crashes. Got this advice on a
>photoshop list. I removed it over a month ago and have not had a crash
>since. I used to have them 3 or more times a day, doing nothing more
>than retouching with the clone tool. Move the mouse one time too many,
>and it crashed the program.
>
>Jerry
>
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--removing altivec core?

Is this a tip for PC users? Altivec is part of the instruction set on the G4
PowerPC processor. I'd be curious if it does anything on a PC? Removing it
on a G4 Mac should slow down quite a few filters...

I've never had crashing problems with any version of PS on a Mac, except
when I tried to run some third party PS plugins with not much memory and big
images. The worst ones were always things that wanted to talk to hardware.
Running any version of M$ Internet Explorer at the same time was an
additional way of guaranteeing a lock up :-))

bye for now   

Keith Cooper

Monday, July 29, 2002, 4:53:49 PM, Keith Cooper wrote:

KC> --removing altivec core?

KC> Is this a tip for PC users? Altivec is part of the instruction set on the G4
KC> PowerPC processor. I'd be curious if it does anything on a PC? Removing it
KC> on a G4 Mac should slow down quite a few filters...

KC> I've never had crashing problems with any version of PS on a Mac, except
KC> when I tried to run some third party PS plugins with not much memory and big
KC> images. The worst ones were always things that wanted to talk to hardware.
KC> Running any version of M$ Internet Explorer at the same time was an
KC> additional way of guaranteeing a lock up :-))

KC> bye for now   

KC> Keith Cooper


Although I rarely have PS crashing problems on my PC (especially since
upgrading to XP) I looked for that plug-in file and could not find it
anywhere.

Best regards,
 Richard  

mailto:richard@...

Keith, I'm on a mac, so don't know if this plugin affect's pc computers.

I have a huge amount of memory dedicated to photoshop, 800 mg.

I haven't noticed any slowing down of filters, but maybe I haven't used
the filters it slows down. The computer would freeze an average of 45
minutes after working in photoshop. It hasn't froze since I removed the
plugin. It always froze as I was doing retouching with the clone stamp
and moving the mouse. After cloning many times, such as removing dust,
the screen froze, always when I was moving the mouse. SO I had to save
VERY often, just to be safe. The only time the computer ever froze was
in photoshop. Not only 7, but in 5.5, 6.01 too.

Jerry

Keith Cooper wrote:

> 
> --removing altivec core?
> 
> Is this a tip for PC users? Altivec is part of the instruction set on the G4
> PowerPC processor. I'd be curious if it does anything on a PC? Removing it
> on a G4 Mac should slow down quite a few filters...
> 
> I've never had crashing problems with any version of PS on a Mac, except
> when I tried to run some third party PS plugins with not much memory and big
> images. The worst ones were always things that wanted to talk to hardware.
> Running any version of M$ Internet Explorer at the same time was an
> additional way of guaranteeing a lock up :-))
> 
> bye for now
> 
> Keith Cooper
> 
> 
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Jerry, thanks for the tip.  Do you know what this plugin is for?

STEPHEN    JENNINGS
    P h o t o g r a p h e r
       Cambridge, MA
sgjennin@...

> Subject: [Digital BW] Great Tip if you have been experiencing photoshop
> crashes.
> 
> Here's a great tip for anybody who has ever experienced frequent
> freezing of the screen when using photoshop.
> 
> Find and remove the plugin: AltiVecCore. It's a plugin that comes with
> photoshop.
> 
> It is the cause of most of photoshop crashes. Got this advice on a
> photoshop list. I removed it over a month ago and have not had a crash
> since. I used to have them 3 or more times a day, doing nothing more
> than retouching with the clone tool. Move the mouse one time too many,
> and it crashed the program.
> 
> Jerry