As it turns out I upgraded my OS to Vista Ultimate 64 bit and added RAM giving me a total of 8 GB. I also added a WD Caviar black 640 GB internal hard drive (as a secondary drive to set Photoshop's primary scratch disks to) and upgraded my external drive from a USB drive to an eSATA connection...
I don't know anything about RAID 0 or why anyone would use two drives for Photoshop scratch disks, but what you said about partitioning makes sense. I didn't know that. Why do you have 3 hard disks? Can you elaborate on the benefits of said 3 HDs?
Yeah, seems like I'm going to have to bite...
Yes, I'm using the latest driver.
As far as memory and CPU, well the memory thing I need to upgrade to 64 bit Vista to use even what I have installed (4GB) and that just looks like such a big pain, 'specially since I'd have to pay for a retail version to get the 64 bit version (they won't...
OK, but lately Photoshop has been shutting down on me randomly (making me often loose alot of work) and when I restart it opens with a message that says "Photoshop has encountered an error with your display driver. Please visit your video card manufacturer's website to be sure your driver is up...
Need some advice here from people who know (cause Im still learning).
OK, so Im a freelance graphic designer. Two years ago when I first started into this I went to Best Buy to pick up a good workhorse of a computer. Thanks anyways, Best Buy.
What they sold me was a Gateway GM5446E with...