Date: 2009aug11 Product: Adobe Premiere Warning: This is about Windows XP which is past end of life Q. What are the best memory settings for Adobe Premiere CS3 on XP? A. The Adobe knowledgebase has a big article here: http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/329/329147.html But comes down to this:

Minimum Paging file size: <your system memory> + 12 MB Maximum Paging file size: <your system memory> * 2

Even with that it still crashes for me so I do the following to make it crash less often:

- Get lots of memory! - Obviously, stop all other applications - Make a custom batch script to stop all unnecessary services - eg:

net stop snmp net stop apache2 ...

- Run your custom script before running Premiere - Unmount Samba shares - Render things as you go - If an action (eg Export via Adobe Media Encoder) is going to take a long time make sure the screen safer doesn't kick in.