cs 6 crashing

Hi,
I am curious. I have Photoshop CS6 the version that is installed from CD to computer.

It seems to be buggy. It seems that after about 10 min it just stops working,

It makes no difference whether in raw converter or photo editor. layers no layers, makes no difference

just stops. Got any Ideas?

CS4 installed on the same computer runs fine no issues Windows Vista.

Vista is not on the supported list. I don't know why since the older XP is included.

oh.

Something else to consider.

https://support.micros​oft.com …dows-vista-end-of-support

How's your general computer health? How much RAM, and how much free hard drive space?

Computer is ok, 90 gig free space, 4gig memory. I like the first answer as most likely.

I had trouble as soon as I installed and used it. Wanted it mostly for the raw converter, (more features).

I have so much installed, filters plug-ins calibration software etc hate to mess with new computer/OS.

CS 4 still runs fine, oh well.

Thanks for the input.

No, 90GB free space is barely ok, and 4GB of RAM is definitely not ok. I think if you look it up, 8GB is the minimum recommended RAM for CS6.

As soon as you mentioned Vista I though uh-oh. When you said 4Gb, I was thinking no way. I don't know for sure, but I can't imagine cs6 working well with only 4Gb of RAM.

I use cs6 with W7, 16+Gb RAM, very few problems, I would not bother upgrading your OS with that much RAM either. W7 will take 2-3Gb of that before you even start up anything else.

ejenner wrote in post #18784042
As soon as you mentioned Vista I though uh-oh. When you said 4Gb, I was thinking no way. I don't know for sure, but I can't imaging cs6 working well with only 4Gb of RAM.

I use cs6 with W7, 16+Gb RAM, very few problems, I would not bother upgrading your OS with that much RAM either. W7 will take 2-3Gb of that before you even start up anything else.

I'm using an eight year old Mac with an i5 processor and 4gb of ram and Photoshop CC works perfectly well.

john crossley wrote in post #18784164
I'm using an eight year old Mac with an i5 processor and 4gb of ram and Photoshop CC works perfectly well.

Well maybe that was before Microsoft and Apple cluttered up their OS with crap. IDK, I regularly get cs6 using over 8Gb. With the OS, CaptureOne and other stuff running, 16GB is a very minimum. I guess it also depends how you use Photoshop and your file sizes (I only have ~20MP cameras).

Right now I have the OS (Windows 7) and Firefox up and I'm on 3.8Gb.

In any case Vista is likely the real culprit here. It was a real disaster and a lot of software companies had a lot of issues with it, which is probably why it is not on the list of supposed OS for cs6.