RAW seems to fry internet connection?????

So, last night, I downloaded the update for 3.7 raw that I needed to open my xti photos in photoshop. Every single time I open a RAW file in photoshop, my wireless internet connection disables and the only way for me to get it back is to reboot my pc. I got the download directly from photoshop.

Has this happened to anyone else? I am using a laptop with a wireless card that gets a signal from a router.

Sounds like somethijng is stealing all of your machine's cycles. You want to look at the Task Manager to see what process is eating all of the machine's time. Of course, it could also be insufficient RAM memory - either way, Task Manager (Ctrl-Alt-Del) will show you what is happening to memory as well.

How do I check how much ram I have? I have 40 gb free storage space. I don't know what's going on. It never happened before I downloaded the photoshop update. And, I am only opening 1 file at a time.

Right-click on My Computer and choose Properties. In the lower right corner of the screen that comes up, it should say what kind of processor you have and how much RAM you have loaded. Post up the numbers you have there, it could very well be that Photoshop is maxing out your system resources like Robert said. Seems odd that it would affect your wireless connections, but thats computers for you

I think your computer's schizophrenic! The cause and effect together make no sense to me.

Following Tim's thought, I reconsidered my previous post and it all made sense to me. I don't think it's schizophrenic (although it may be), I think your compy is just a very deep thinker....so deep a thinker that it withdraws into itself and shuts off all avenues of outside communication when contemplating your RAW files, thereby eliminating distractions (which interfere with it's thought process). Many prolific thinker's are like this, so I wouldn't be too worried :p

Is Abode trying to look for, and download, product updates? Look in the bottom right hand corner in the task bar for a small white rectangle. If you move your mouse pointer over this, it may says a percentage (37% etc). If that appears, then Adobe could be hunting for updates for all products you have installed, even Acrobat Reader! Just an idea, maybe that is not the reason...

You could install a firewall that selectively allows/blocks internet traffic, as such an application can identify if any other apps are trying to poll the internet for whatever reason, thus stealing bandwidth...

Alicia,

is it PS or PSE you are using? My PSE went thru a phase of completely locking up my PC and driving CPU to 100% and the core temp to 75C!

I had to ruthlessly remove every adobe file on my system and re-install!

I am using PS CS2. WHen I open a JPG in photoshop, my internet connection remains in tact. When I open a RAW file, it locks my internet up and tells me I have no available routers. So, I have to reboot.

512 MB of RAM. Is that bad? This is a brand new (6 month old ) laptop and it's an Alienware. It was made for high performance gaming. So, I don't get it.

My computer is equipped with 512 MB of RAM and that is more than adequate for anything that I do in PSCS2 with RAW or anything else - so, that cannot be the problem.

Have you done as I suggested and looked into machine time usage with Task Manager?

Yes, and the only thing that is running is the program itself and any internet pages I am on.

This is too strange, call tech support.

btw Alienware are generally fast, but 512MB can't be called high performance. Get it up to 1GB if you want better performance, or 2GB if you want really good performance.

It just happened again. This time it happened when I downloaded the pics from the memory card reader to the pc!

italianfemmy wrote in post #3456572
It just happened again. This time it happened when I downloaded the pics from the memory card reader to the pc!

I'm not sure I understand exactly what the outcome of the situation is -

Are you able to open up RAW images and edit them (even though your getting booted off the internet)?

Are the only times you get booted off the internet is opening RAW and transfering images from the card reader to HD (is the card reader internal the the laptop)?

What Operating system are you using?

Do you know if you have your operating system set to allocate most of it's resources to running programs or processing background tasks?

When you have CS2 open & running how long until you try to open up a raw image and you get booted off the internet.

Do you know how much ram you have alocated in CS2 to run the program - you can adjust this setting in the preferences in CS2 - alot of people think the more ram they allocate to run PS the better it is - when IMPO I think the setting should be between 50 - 70% of your total RAM.

The RAW's that your opening are then on your HD or are you trying to access them from the card in the card reader.

Here is my theory - the RAW files are triggering a file in CS2 which is needed to open them. They also may be triggering the drivers from Canon that enable your particular model camera's CS2 files. There is a rather simple way to test this. Go to Microsoft's website and download the free RAW viewer here: http://www.microsoft.c​om …66FD4A3286&disp​laylang=en

If that viewer opens your RAW files with no problem, then it is definetly Adobe or Canon. If you wish to test the Canon drivers, get the original CDs and reinstall the drivers right over the existing one.. no uninstall needed. For Adobe, you will have to uninstall it and reinstall it. Try the test with the MS viewer first.