CS4 bug: brush cursor display is incomplete

Perhaps Ron's point is that even though both Adobe and nVidia have been aware of this problem for months, nVidia still hasn't been able to come up with a fix.

I share his frustration with trying to use crippled functionality. If you had to use it, you would too.

Didn't Photoshop CS4 provide a nag message to ensure that you upgrade to the latest GPU driver. Or did you turn it off before reading it?

Chris:

Would it do any good if the good folks at Adobe echoed your "once again" statement in print -- as a news release to prospective buyers -- alerting them that problems such as incomplete cursors "are a known bug in the Nvidia driver software." Therefore, people buying computers that have Nvidia gpu's may experience problems with Adobe C4 products.

Now I certainly would be proud of Adobe and wouldn't we all be surprised if both Nvidia and computer manufactures got off their behinds and resolved this problem.

You would go along with this wouldn't you Chris? Chris?

Once again: this is a known bug in the Nvidia driver software, the only way to fix it is to update your Nvidia driver.

nVidia 7600 GS here, running 178.46, and unfortunately for me, AllowOldGPUS_ON.reg key did not help.

As with others, my primary monitor is fine, but the monitor I use to run PS4 on is my secondary monitor. :-(

For the record, I have a nVidia Quadro FX 3400/4400 with the updated 178.46 driver and I still have the truncated cursors.

Also, there is the problem of backwards compatibility. I recognize that the problem with truncated cursors likely lies with the video card/software. The real problem, for both card providers and third party providers is the collusion in adapting to each others upgrades leaves out the legacy element and here the legacy only goes back one CS revision. The fact that my card will not support open GL and shuts down those tools that are only possible with Open GL or whatever doesn't bother me in the least. What is unacceptable is the things like cursors, damn fundamental, unfortunately also require the upgrades to work at all correctly.

That's the legacy part.

The first order of business, IMO, is to correct that software in CS4 that disallows those fundamental operations from running correctly as a native condition of Photoshop operations. To that end, those operations requiring the newer cards and corrected drivers could be set as a separate operation as a plug in.

I like standards. There are so many to choose from. :)

When is a standard not a standard?

When there is more than one.

Not to prolong the issue, but to answer your questions, here's what I have:

- A two monitor system (17" laptop plus 24" monitor)
- A fairly powerful Core 2 Duo T9300 (2.5Ghz) processor
- 4 Gig of ram
- Internal 320Gb drive
- A Drobo 4Tb system for main storage (of current projects)
- And so many external drives for backups that I've lost count

You may have a high end desktop, but I don't feel that my laptop is really all that low end. The huge advantage to a laptop? I can pick it up and go whenever I want. I process photos in between weddings. I process photos when traveling. I process whenever / wherever I want.

And the best thing is? I have the full power of my main computer with me at all times. Every software application I use. Every tool I use. Everything I need is right there. I don't have to maintain a separate copy of my files or applications or tools on a second machine.

Is it a good solution for everyone? Probably not. Does it fit my needs? Absolutely.

Does it run Photoshop CS4? (with the Old Gpu Registry settings enabled) ABSOLUTELY! And it does so quite well.