Photoshop and HD temperature

OzStarGazer · #1 02-01-2015, 02:33 PM

I have noticed that my HD temperature goes up a lot while using Photoshop, even if I just have 1 image open and am not even processing it.
It is particularly evident now that it is hot because I am constantly warned that the HD temperature is too high while using it, often > 90 degrees... As soon as I close Photoshop the HD temperature goes back to normal.
Does this happen to anybody else?

multiweb (Marc) · #2 02-01-2015, 05:00 PM

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Originally Posted by OzStarGazer

I have noticed that my HD temperature goes up a lot while using Photoshop, even if I just have 1 image open and am not even processing it.
It is particularly evident now that it is hot because I am constantly warned that the HD temperature is too high while using it, often > 90 degrees... As soon as I close Photoshop the HD temperature goes back to normal.
Does this happen to anybody else?

90c are you sure? That's going into meltdown... Maybe the CPU temp goes that high. PS will use the HD as a scratch disk when it needs more RAM. What's your PC available RAM?

OzStarGazer · #3 02-01-2015, 06:06 PM

Hi, yes, thanks it was actually the Core/CPU temperature, but the HD does get really hot too. If I touch its location the metal of the laptop is really hot!

I have 8GB of RAM. It is funny because if I use PaintShop I can have 15 images open and this does not happen.

I tried again right now - just an image in PhotoShop - and SpeedFan is already giving me the message "HDD above normal temperature"...

multiweb (Marc) · #4 02-01-2015, 06:18 PM

Check the scratch disk settings in PS preferences then make sure your HD has enough room as a swap drive. If your CPU overheats chances are that your motherboard uses a GPU or graphic accelerator to speed up the display in PS. So have a look at that as well in preferences again.

doppler (Rick) · #5 02-01-2015, 06:35 PM

Photoshop CS5 is really demanding on resources. It won't open a 100mb Tif file on my old desktop because I don't have enough ram (I have 2 gig)and its the same on my windows 8 laptop (also with 2 gig). CS works fine though on both systems.

OzStarGazer · #6 03-01-2015, 06:19 AM

Thanks, the HD has plenty of free space, over 400 GB... (I had even more before being the NexImage...

) I just unchecked "Use Graphics Processor". The Core temperature is still very high (around 90 degrees), but I don't seem to be getting the message "HDD above normal temperature" right now. Fingers crossed...

ZeroID (Brent) · #7 04-01-2015, 02:10 PM

Check your virtual memory settings. If it is fixed and too low then the HDD is being worked too hard as it shifts data back and forwards to the sysfile area.
Ctl Panel > Systems > Advanced.
Most PC's have it set so the PC manages it automatically but worth checking to see if it's too low. One of our old IT support staff used to set all XP PC's to 666 mbyte which caused havoc with bigger spread sheets.

OzStarGazer · #8 05-01-2015, 02:59 PM

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Originally Posted by ZeroID

Check your virtual memory settings. If it is fixed and too low then the HDD is being worked too hard as it shifts data back and forwards to the sysfile area.
Ctl Panel > Systems > Advanced.
Most PC's have it set so the PC manages it automatically but worth checking to see if it's too low. One of our old IT support staff used to set all XP PC's to 666 mbyte which caused havoc with bigger spread sheets.

Thanks, it is indeed a bit low, lower than the recommended settings, so I am going to change that and see how it goes.
Interesting that it says "automatically manage..." (this is ticked), and then the recommended settings are much higher.