MP 8Core gets slow with Illustrator...

[the vj]

Ok, I have my MP 8 cores 10GB ram.

I open After Effects, Cinema 4D and when I open Illsutrator the computer gets really slow. I mean, I have itunes and photoshop open and it take like 5 seconds or more to open Safari. The dock does not open, is like if I was using all teh computer resouces but I can not really isolate where. I believe is Illustrator but I mean... I have 10GB of ram!!! and I am not using anything heavy in Illsutrator, probably 3MB at the most files.

Any idea how to check?

I am using CS3, I do not know if is 32bit because it feels like.

 

[Tallest Skil]

No Creative Suite is 64-bit. Your 10GB of RAM is meaningless because the app can only address 3.3GB.

 

[satcomer]

Download either YASU or Onyx and running all the cleaning routines. Let the program reboot your Mac then immediately manually reboot to completely rebuild your startup/shutdown cache. This should speed up your Mac and doing this kind of maintenance every 3 months should keep your Mac running almost like new (barring any hardware problems).