Photoshop CS4 is a disaster

What reason does Narked have to suspect a faulty video card? He's having the exact same issues as the rest of us who purchased this clunky turd.

Narked: Could be a faulty card?

Harry, the ATI control panel (Catalyst Control Center) won't get you anywhere. Believe me, I've tried everything. Download their latest driver (9.1) and see if that helps. If not, you'll be told by Adobe to download the latest driver.

Seriously, this is the most f'ed up thing I've ever gone through with PS.

The feature set in CS4 is too addicting to give up: clone stamp palette, arbitrary canvas rotation, 3D object painting, it's all good.

But the UI redraw, and the OGL issues with refreshing the screen, are indeed frustrating. I've played with a ton of settings in the ATI control panel to no avail.

I wouldn't bother. CS4 doesn't work properly on my quadcore. Brand new machine, top card, loads of ram, latest drivers, all "enable openGL drawing" options explored (and I mean all)...

...and still I get menus that degrade (can't even close the app down), flickering, jerky redraws on every move, etc etc.

I'm getting my money back. Anyone got CS3 for sale?

Same performance problems here.

Vista Ultimate 32-bit
Q6600
4GB DDR2
GeForce 8800GTS 512 Zotac AMP Edition (181.22 WHQL drivers)

So, is there a fix for the OpenGL problems yet?

XP-32
4GB RAM
nVidia 9600 GT 512 vRAM
All new drivers

Nick - ok, I'll see what I can do.

Lawrence - yeah. I think it's about convincing management that there are people using the GPU for something other than games and SIGGRAPH papers.

Cripes Chris, if they cannot get serious about a lab finding problems, who can they believe? If your lab is like mine, a sighting doesn't become a bug until it can be replicated, and the more systems that show it the better.

OK, Chris, tell ya what. My email address is nick at nickdeckerphoto dot com. Send me some contact info that gets me to someone other than "please hold, and your call may be recorded for quality-control purposes" and I'll be happy to tell them about my problems. I promise, I won't mention your name, only that ATI/Radeon needs to be aware of the problems I'm having.

I have called them, I have emailed them and I have sent web mails to them via their web site. Not one response, other than an email that said that my vid card was not appropriate for graphics work with programs such as Photoshop (although the card does meet all the system requirements you guys publish).