Photoshop CS4 is a disaster

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I'm sorry; I really don't understand the previous post.

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Maybe the PS people can talk to the AE people about OGL and maybe, OMG, it could work!

Hugh-

That looks like an amazingly helpful post!! I'm excited to try the routes you suggest. I will let you know if they resolve any of the issues that I'm struggling with on my machine.

thanks!!
-MC

Couple of things:

There is an interesting thread related to graphics card settings the absolutely cleared-up my all my speed, windowing and drawing issues. With the settings that I posted a while a go in this thread, I now run CS4 significantly faster than CS3. The link is:

Wolf Eilers, "CS4 and nvidia 180.48 driver - disable PhysX GPU acceleration" #8, 6 Dec 2008 11:32 am

These settings only modify how the video sub-system interacts with the requesting program and not OGL. The example settings are for nVidia, but apply across all venders that produce high-end cards. Note: these settings are usually only applicable to high-end cards designed for 3D applications, so you may not be able to modify your settings.

A looong time ago, I wrote graphics drivers, so I could give an analogy as to what is happening, but I realize that folks are interested in solving the problem, and not techno-babble. Give it a try.

Adobe is aware of this issue and is working on it.

My OGL is still NG. I am running OGL 2.1.2, which is fairly recent I believe 2007 considering OGL has been around for about 17 years. Adobe includes an OGL compatibility tester with AE. AE, PP, etc are all OK. I have been trading e-mails with PS engineering on test data, so they are aware of the issues and working on it. Considering this is the first time PS engineering has included OGL code, it is not surprising that there are a few glitches.

Folks in this thread should really check-out about 6 or 7 other threads on speed issues. I have seen several suggestions that have not appeared here. You should also check-out threads on photo.net, digitaldarkroom, etc. There are some very sharp folks on the web that do not visit the Adobe forums and have posted work-arounds.

Hope it helps,

H

"The latter seem to regard the former as whining morons who are obviously doing all sorts of things wrong."

That is absolutely incorrect. Many have offered suggestions to those having problems. Note that the original poster, ProArtist, asked that I run a test for him on Dec. 29. I did the test, as requested, and to date, Jan. 6th, haven't received a reply.

I ended my reply to ProArtist: Good luck. I don't like to hear that someone is having problems with Photoshop. Much like seeing a homeless person and thinking "There but for the grace of God...."

I don't see how this indicates not caring or not trying to help.

Q

I must say that when I installed the CS4 Design Premium suite a couple of weeks ago, I was pleased to note that I didn't have any of the OpenGL problems. However, now I've finished the 'playing with the new toy' phase and started to do real work I find many of the same problems listed in earlier posts, i.e. lags using the brush and clone tools, pen tool lags and text lags. These alone break this version for me as far as work goes and now will revert to using CS2 full-time.

I have tried as many of the fixes that have worked for other posters, but obviously this hasn't helped me.

Specs are:

Core 2 Duo 2.66ghz
4GB ram
2 internal HD's
Nvidia 8600GT
Vista Home Premium

I'm sad to say that I probably will never trust another major version upgrade from Adobe again until it has been thoroughly tested in the marketplace for some months.

Surely given the volume of the problems now surfacing Adobe must of been aware of this before shipment (I now they can't test all combinations of hardware/software) and therefore, were they forced into shipping a defective product by the marketing & finance departments?

I just had to add this post, to speak up for the silent minority/(majority)? of users having these problems.

making this post like couple months after i initially made a post in this thread, is there a fix yet?

core 2 duo 2.4ghz
3gb ram
512mb 9600GT
win xp 32bit
newest drivers

played with settings, GPU on, upped cache, etc

still lags. my biggest complaint is when i try to type texts i would type like a sentence and it would appear like 10seconds later

any idaes?

gosh all I want to do is read the help file to see if I missed something in CS4.

But it doesn't work, something on Adobe's site keeps trying to do an unauthorized action across my firewall so the whole thing just hangs.

I'd like to know what that is too. But really all I want to do is look at my help file !

Why does it have to go to Adobe.com just so I can look at my help file ?