Waiting cursor while painting

[sundaymonday]

Hello,

I have been trying to figure this out for a while. There doesn't seem to any mention of this on the internet (that I can find). I will try my best to explain what is happening.

When I paint in photoshop the cursor will randomly turn into the waiting symbol, It will never stop 'waiting' but I'm still able to paint. I can't change the brush, or click on anything else, like its crashed. I always have to force quit the app to stop it.

I have tried stripping back my preferences to no openGL, running in 32 bit mode etc but it still crashes.

SYSTEM
PhotoShop CS 5
Lion 10.7.2
macPro 3.1
10 GB Memory
ATI Radeon HD 5770

Picture below shows how simple the task was to cause it to hang. The scribble lines is what I was able to do while it was spinning.



Thanks
J

[Steve]

Hi J,

If it's a memory issue you're making it worse by running in 32bit mode.
In 32bit PS can only access 2.1GB on a Mac.
In 64bit it will access as much RAM as you can fit in your computer.
I assume you've tried it both ways and still have a problem.

Make sure your video driver is up to date and try resetting the preferences file.

Start Photoshop and immediately hold down Ctrl+Alt+Shift (Windows)
or Command+Option+Shift (Mac OS X).

Then, click Yes to the message, "Delete the Adobe Photoshop Settings file?"