Photoshop CS4 is a disaster

So Photoshop CS4 requires OpenGL 2.0 support even if you have the OpenGL features turned off? Because turning them off has no effect on the performance on any of our machines.

I understand that Adobe can't fix third party problems. My point was that they somehow managed to get CS3 to fly under the same conditions, so it doesn't seem reasonable that many of these suggestions would solve the issue.

Hello

Wow! This is a large topic.
I have just loaded a trial of CS4 extended and compared it to my CS3 ordinary, using the 'Retouchartists' image and action benchmark.

CS3 with 83% of 2Gb of ram did the action in 3m.00s
CS4 with 83% of 2GB of ram did the action in 2m.28s.
All other parameters the same.
Pentium 4 2.53Ghz and Win XPpro SP2
I built the machine in DEC 2002.
I won't be buying CS4 as I don't think it offers a great deal, but it runs pretty damn well.

Mike Engles

D. Rutledge - you need to read the rest of the thread, because many people have found that the primary cause of their CS4 performance problems are drivers or third party software. Adobe can't fix third party drivers or software.

As already noted here and elsewhere: Adobe is working on the problems in the Adobe code.

Adobe has not once blamed third party software for all of the problems. But the majority of the problems have been traced to third party software. So, if you are having problems, doesn't it make sense to fix the ones under your control (or request your vendors fix the ones that they can fix and Adobe can't)?

If all installs within your company have the same problem, your IT environment is still a common factor. You need to work with your IT people to fix that environment - or at least rule it out as a likely cause of the problems you are seeing.

D. Rutledge,
Google: after I read several websites on the T-60 and T-61 do not support opengl 2.0 the CS4 requires. I also question if the thinkpads even support shader 3.0. You can Google the information you need and give it to your IT people then have them call Intel and see if they are updating their card drivers. Good luck.

Question, who here is having problems and also has a 8800 NVIDIA card?
I've seen all types of issues in other CS4 and CS3 products because the 8800 card.

I work for a nationwide NYSE company. At least a dozen of us in our corporate headquarters have upgraded to CS4 from CS3. We're now begging the poor network department to switch us back because Photoshop runs so poorly that we can barely do our jobs! I've tried many suggestions listed here (except for uninstalling my programs...those of us who work in a strictly regulated corporate environment can't install/uninstall virus scanning programs on a whim) and have experienced minimal improvement, if any.

My PC specs are apparently irrelevant, because there isn't a SINGLE INSTALL OF CS4 IN OUR CORPORATION that is working any better. We all have some variety of IBM/Lenovo Thinkpads (T60, T61, etc) or IBM desktop machines. Each of them easily exceeds every requirement of CS4.

Since Photoshop CS3 worked like a dream and Photoshop CS4 can't even display a sentence of text I typed within 10 seconds or let me move a selected rectangle across the screen without stuttering like a 386 trying to run Windows Vista, I hope Adobe has stopped blaming other programs for their problems and are working to fix their own buggy stuff.

Fair enough. Good bargain!

John

Just ordered the suite from Amazon (3 user licence).

Amazon had a promotion for this, if you ordered £30's worth of other items, Kaspersky was half price. The 3 user suite was listed at £17.36 (which was already cheap) and I ended up getting it for £8.68.

Even if the suit doesn't work too well for me, 8 quid isn't too much too loose!

Out of interest I went with the slightly cheaper AV rather than the Internet Suite because the former does include malware and phishing detection and I wasn't bothered about the rest.

I have an instinctive distrust of "Suites". Yes, even Creative ones. ;)

Dave

Thanks for the info - I'll then go with the Kaspersky Internet Security 2009 option, I agree about always uninstalling the previous Kaspersky version before upgrading.