768Mb Graphic Card, not enough memory?

[Manninagh]

Hi Folks,
My PC is built on an Asus P5N32-E Sli Plus mother board, Intel quad Q6700 @ 2.66GHz processor and an NVidia Geforce 8800 GTX 768MB graphics card, running Win7.

I have recently been adding some simple 3D text on top of a few photos. The problem I’m having is that Photoshop crashes if I try to go above three words of text with a texture added.
It reports that there is not enough memory on the graphic card. As my mother board will take two graphic cards, I’m thinking of putting another of the same in.

So would the whole of the combined 1536MB of memory be available to Photoshop and hopefully cure my problem?

Any advice would be appreciated.

 

[arad85]

Latest Nvidia drivers? I wouldn't bother with 2x graphics cards - PS doesn't support acceleration across two cards. I've run PS fine on a 512M card. I'd be looking elsewhere (or putting a 1G+card in)

 

[neil_g]

what that guy above said, first off try the latest drivers. also see if there are any updates for photoshop.

what version of PS is it also?

 

[WinstonSmith]

What RAM does your machine have, are you running a 64 bit OS, and what are your photoshop settings with regards to how much memory it can use?

 

[Manninagh]

Thank you for the responses,
I have just last week upgraded to Windows 7 32 Bit, and have 4 Gb of Ram.
In PS I have 1600Mb of Ram set as available. I have 3 Hard drives withover 1Tg of useable space between them, and have them enabled for PS's use.

I think my problem was that after installing Win 7 I updated all my Drivers via Windows Update. This morning I went direct to NVidia and uploaded the latest driver, that seems to have done the trick.

I have only tried making a simple 3D text layer as before and it didn't crash.
As I'm new to 3D, what would make for a good test for the graphics in PS.

Thanks again.

 

[neil_g]

always best to get drivers from manufacturers rather than microsoft (where possible)

 

[Manninagh]

Thank you for the responses,
I have just last week upgraded to Windows 7 32 Bit, and have 4 Gb of Ram.
In PS I have 1600Mb of Ram set as available. I have 3 Hard drives withover 1Tg of useable space between them, and have them enabled for PS's use.

I think my problem was that after installing Win 7 I updated all my Drivers via Windows Update. This morning I went direct to NVidia and uploaded the latest driver, that seems to have done the trick.

I have only tried making a simple 3D text layer as before and it didn't crash.
As I'm new to 3D, what would make a good test for the Graphics card using PS.

Thanks again.