I´m getting a huge amount of hard faults while loading Photoshop - Is that normal?

Freemun

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Hi everyone,

I have an SSD hard drive and 4GB of physical memory. Photoshop used to load very, very quickly - however, when my partner installed all her brushes and fonts and god knows what else, the program now takes nearly 5 minutes to load.

CPU usage isn´t particularly high, however, I´m noticing a sustained amount of hard faults throughout most of the time the program is loading.

Does that suggest my 4GB is not enough memory, or that my memory is failing?
 

Freemun

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I agree - we've always planned to upgrade it. However, if the amount of memory is the main reason Photoshop is opening that slowly, I'll prioritize it a bit for her since she's an art student and uses Photoshop pretty much every day. 5 Minutes load time is a bit of an embarrassment.

Out of interest, how much memory would you recommend for stable Photoshop usage? The website recommends 1GB, which isn't very helpful.