CS4 bug: brush cursor display is incomplete

I was considering an upgrade from CS2 to CS4 and have just happened across this thread. I'm not very computer savvy and don't understand a lot of what is being said here.

I just ran down the specs on my system which are:

Gigabyte GA-8I955X Royal Intel 955X Chipset motherboard
Intel Pentium D 820 Smithfield 2 x 1MB L2 Dual Core, EM64T
Corsair 1GB 240-Pin DDR2 533
XFX Geforce 6600 256MB DDR PCI Express Video Card

With this system, is there a chance that I would run into the cursor problem that is being discussed here?

I had the issue of the truncated brush happening using Geforce Go 7900 GTX XP sp3.

every post i have come across just says update drivers. the latest driver from nvidia for my card is 175.32 this driver didnt solve the problem.

I installed driver 180.48 and modified inf from laptopvideo2go.com and this driver solved the truncated brush problem

hope this can help someone.

I have this issue using the GTX-260 card on both XP Pro and XP 64. I also had the issue it with the nvidia 7300 cards.

I had similar issues with my FX3450. I had to completely uninstall the existing drivers, then boot into safe mode and install the new video drivers to get everything to take.

My system reported that I was running the current drivers, but clearly, there was something getting overlooked.

Don't know if this will help you or not.

Mark

I am not on a mobile pc, nor am I on a Geforce card. I use desktop with a Quadro FX 1500 and I am still having issues even WITH the latest drivers. in 178.46 nvidia states that the cursor truncating issue in photoshop cs4 is resolved, yet I still get the issue. I am just wondering is anyone going to fix this issue any time soon? or if there is a fix i am unaware of can someone direct me to it.

thanks in advance.

i You can't please all the people all of the time!

I'm sure glad you don't do anything for the aeronautics industry! :D

I do much with gray scale retouch. What do you tell your client when you cannot deliver a clean image on time because of the brush deficiency?

I am going to uninstall CS4. It's a no-brainer for me.

I have CS4 on 2 machines, one with an ATI card and the other with an Nvidia card, both experience that incomplete cursor as well as damn near unbearable cursor lag when using any brush based tool. So, IMHO, It may not JUST be the drivers, I'm running the latest drivers on both, still having the 2 issues listed above.

For those that do a lot of grayscale photo retouching, the new cursor is a significant backward step compared to that in CS3.

XORing into the background generated a much more visible cursor on mid grayscales than this 'enhancement'.

Surely it cannot be impossible to offer a choice in Preferences between the new, troublesome cursor and the old, stable and excellent one.

That change of cursor tone is by design. People pleaded for a more visible cursor. It only disappears over one particular shade of grey, which is unavoidable. If you lose it, briefly press the space bar or toggle with the Caps Lock.

You can't please all the people all of the time!

It's also happening on the healing.

I've seen the preview bit. Maybe it's ok, maybe not. First, I have to see where the brush is at.