Tips-Speed up loading brushes in PaintShopPro XI

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graphicseditor

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I am shopping for a new computer to replace my Dell 4600. I use Paint Shop Pro quite a bit, but I find it takes a long time to switch my tools like custom brushes, erasers, dodge, etc. My current processor is a Pentium 4 running at 2.8G. I thought that adding RAM might help, so I installed 3 Gigabytes, but it still takes a long time to load new tools. (It also takes a long time to apply changes like the mesh warp, however the added memory seems to have helped a little there.)
My question is - which would probably have a bigger impact on reducing the time it takes to load Paint Shop Pro's tools on my new computer , ....buying a processor (like the Intel Core 2 Duo) with the fastest clock speed I can afford ...or buying a new processor with the most L2 Cache I can afford ....or even increasing my RAM to 4 Gig? (I may increase the memory anyway since I work with very large image files).
 
3g is a mass amount of ram for what youre doing... gamers dont need 3gb even.

when was the last time you cleaned off you computer?
 
If you mean defragging - it was a couple of weeks ago - but this has been an ongoing problem for a couple of months - even going back to when I was using version X. A Paint Shop Pro Veteran recently told me that this program really hogs memory - and for someone like me who works on very large image files, 3G RAM is not overkill. I believe that because the program used to crash all the time on me until I upgraded my memory - and like I said, it also helped speed up some of the program processing - like applying mesh warps - it just didn't make loading different brushes any faster
 
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