Photoshop CS4 is a disaster

what phys-x plac-ebo on ? huh?

Hugh - i understand what you are saying. i went into my nvidia control panel and went under 3d settings for photoshop cs4. i changed most values to the ones listed in the thread you linked to earlier. none of the features are program dependent and doesn't seem like cs4 is able to change anything

either way, still lags

save for web option freakin SUCKS!!!!!!
the annoying "YES" confirmation is still there and now i CANT EVEN PRESS ESCAPE TO cancel the even more annoying picture preview loading.
???? ?? ????

I use the sony ex1 with XSX card that only cs4 can read but media encoder does not work. I have upgraded from cs2 and would love to go to cs3, I am stuck I guess. What other options beside FCP do I have to read those sxs cards.

thanks,

fred

Hugh

Thanks for the info, but I've now tried everything I can think off including locking the settings for Photoshop, still no luck. I'm now seriously thinking of trying another more powerful graphics card, trouble is all this takes time away from paid work, which I seem to have a stack of at the moment - glad I've still got CS2 to use.

One thing if I turn off OpenGl in preferences the clone stamp and pen lags go away but the brush lag is the same (which is related to brush size and zoom percentage - as others have noted), so perhaps I do have a bottleneck somewhere.

I've downloaded the trial version of Photoshop CS4 Extended on my XP Home system with 2gb of memory, AMD AthlonXP 3200+ @ 2.19 GHz on an ATI Radeon 9250 video card @ 128mb of memory. In short, a pretty dated system and I'm not having a single problem with the performance of CS4 Extended. My guess is there's something wrong with your system.

I am sorry. I did not make something clear in my post on settings:

The important point of my last post about card settings is not the settings themselves, they will be different for every class of card.

The point is that you need to disable PSs ability to alter the configuration of the video sub-system or place values in any of the settings.

There is usually a setting in the driver somewhere to disable an application from altering the cards / drivers settings. That was the key for me. Once I disabled PSs ability to change anything, then performance boost was achieved. I then tweaked with the settings to get what I wanted.

All card Mfgs have forums. You may find folks with optimized settings for PS. The settings do not have to be for CS4, just something recent. The Mfg may also have a FAQ on settings and even provide optimized settings for PS.

Hope this helps,

H

You two must have missed the hidden nvidia setting:

phys-x plac-ebo on

Set that and you'll be ready to go to new heights, with no bounds. I know these things, I am, after all

Expert Here

Disabling the PhysX setting didn't fix anything for me either.

Hugh's advice changing the nvidia settings didn't fix anything for me

Took Hugh's advice and mimicked Wolf Eilers setup. Photoshop is now plenty faster, and I can finally finish a couple projects I was working on and start a few new ones. It still isn't perfect, CS2 was a little faster, but in CS2 the brush lines were less smooth if you drew quick circles than in cs4, so I guess that is a good trade off. The pen tool is still more sluggish than the brush tool on my system, but it is at least usable.

Now I get to fine tune it to see just how fast I can get everything running, and next is seeing if I can get Illustrator to speed up, on my large vector files with jpg background for reference, every time I hide or un-hide the jpg, everything goes white or black for a couple seconds, simply unusable for this type of work, guess I'm stuck with smaller files and free handing stuff for a while in Illustrator.