Photoshop CS4 is a disaster

There must be a clever link between the introduction of
b suites
and the rise of the
b suits.
But I cannot think of one at the moment.

Anthony.

Software insulin, anyone?

Not perhaps Russell; definitely.

The rot started with the introduction of the suite concept: a marketing idea to increase turnover, which didn't take elementary engineering constraints into consideration. (ie you can't develop totally different products to the same time scale.)

The rise of the "suits" from thereon guaranteed the fall in quality for the end user.

> The reality is that CS4 should not have shipped until now. My hope is that Adobe will learn a lesson from this big mistake and fix such widespread severity 1 problems prior to shipment next time.

Perhaps the suite approach pressures the dev team to push it out the door within a fixed timeframe : ready or not..

FIXED. Our long national nightmare is over. After 4 months, Adobe or Nvidia or some combination of the two have fixed Photoshop CS4 on my two machines (Dell XPS 1330 with Nvidia Geforce 8400M GS & Dell Vostro 400 with Nvidia Geforce 8600 GTS, both running XP32).

The photoshop 11.0.1 fix plus 2009 drivers for both machines have CS4 in a useable state for me. On the 1330 laptop, there are still screen redraw issues with an image appearing in two places on the screen at once as I drag it from one side to the other, but the lagginess, slowness, unuseable-ness is gone.

I did not have to jump through any hoops, turn any switches on and off, de-install / reinstall any software, look for preinstalled bloat on my Dell machines, or uncover any other hardware or software culprits that may have been causing the CS4 performance problem. All I had to do was wait 4 months for Adobe and Nvidia to fix the problem, and they did.

The reality is that CS4 should not have shipped until now. My hope is that Adobe will learn a lesson from this big mistake and fix such widespread severity 1 problems prior to shipment next time. At this point they need to trumpet to the world that "CS4 is available and it really works now," because I know that many gave up and said to heck with this over the past 4 months. I would really like to see my Adobe stock move in a more northerly direction.

James, what mobo?

James - if the Photoshop dot release and latest drivers aren't displaying correct, you need to contact your video card maker and get them details so they can fix the remaining driver bugs.

Using an 8800 GTX (Latest drivers: v182.08) on a brand new Intel i7 920, 6GB DDR3 and Vista x64 this issue is ridiculously painful. Phtoshop starts and runs beautifully except that it doesn't redraw until I move/zoom an image.

Mine is ASUS EAH 4850 1G. After unistalling the "GamerOSD", EVERYTHING GONNA all right. I thought that would help somebody as me.

Running PsCS4 on Vista and Photoshop using 70% of memory. I think you may need more memory. Other than that, I would cut back on the memory dedicated to Photoshop to about 50%.