Last updated on October 4th, 2020
The Photoshop CC 2018/2017 error in Preferences “An integer between 96 and 8 is required. Closest value inserted” commonly appears on systems running Windows 10 with less that 2GB RAM.
The “integer between 96 and 8 is required” error in Photoshop, appears when you try to access the Performance preferences (Edit > Preferences > Performance), after updating Windows 10.
This tutorial contains instructions to resolve the following errors in Photoshop CC 2018 & 2017 in Windows 10:
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An integer between 96 and 8 is required. Closest value inserted
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Could not complete your request because of a problem parsing the JPEG data
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Could not complete your request because there is not enough memory (RAM)
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There was an error opening your printer. Printing functions will not be available until you have selected a printer & reopened any document
How to FIX: Photoshop CC 2018-2017 error “An integer between 96 and 8 is required” in Windows 10.
1. Close
Photoshop.
2. Open
the Registry Editor. To do that:
1. Simultaneously press the
Win
+
R
keys to open the run command box.
2. Type
regedit
and press
Enter
to open Registry Editor.
3.
Navigate to the following registry key according to your Photoshop version: *
-
Photoshop CC 2018:
HKEY_CURRENT_USERSOFTWAREAdobePhotoshop120.0 -
Photoshop CC 2017:
HKEY_CURRENT_USERSOFTWAREAdobePhotoshop110.0
4.
Select the “120.0” key if your have Photoshop 2018, or the “110.0” for Photoshop 2017).
5.
At the right pane create a new DWORD value with name “OverridePhysicalMemoryMB”. To do that:
a. Right click at an empty space and choose
New
>
DWORD (32-bit) Value
b. Give the name
OverridePhysicalMemoryMB
and press
Enter
.
6.
Double click at the newly created value and modify the Value Data as follows:
a. Choose
Decimal
.b. In the
Value Data
field, modify the value from 0 to a numeric value in Megabytes according the installed RAM on your system. (1GB = 1024MB). For example, if you have 4GB RAM type 4096, for 8 GB type 8192, for 16GB type 16384, etc..c. When done, click
OK
.
7. Close
the Registry Editor and open Photoshop.
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