Photoshop CS4 is a disaster

Mark K, please visit this site: Photoshop Support Center

I am using a dual-core Vista PC with 4mb and an ATI 1950X Pro graphics card with 512mb and Photoshop CS4 works perfectly well, including the GPU features.

So don't worry, be happy...

Anthony.

This is my first time on a forum I apologize in advance for doing anything wrong. I just bought CS4 and was looking for advice on what video card to get and stumbled on this disturbing forum.

My first question would be: am I screwed because I bought a dual core and not a quad core. I do have 4 gigs of ram. I can still return the computer if this simply wont work with CS4's issues.

Second Question: should I return CS4 and somehow get a version of CS3 (I am upgrading from CS2 to CS4)

Third Question: what exactly should I get to have CS4 to run like it should. (money is somewhat of an issue but since this is going to be my profession I realize u must spend to make

I guess I am lost and don't know what to do. Shame because I was so excited about my upgrades. - thanks, mark

i Expert Here: if "Adobe" releases an early patch that would uncovers other issues, users would complain.

Damn right and proper!

I certainly hope that the layoffs at Adobe did not include QA testers, and these folks have the power to hold up revisions if such "other issues" are discovered.

That's what bug reports are for.

Expert Here: if "Adobe" releases an early patch that would uncovers other issues, users would complain.

It took time to replicate the issue, and as I said, there are many parameters involved. Engineers DID requests users with the slowness issues in the San Jose area to let them take a look at their systems.

Be proactive and patient, instead of waving the "I will sue" flag, that is downright counter-productive.

<<Didn't you have to sign a non-disclosure agreement? if yes, re-read it>>

I had my fingers crossed. There is also the thing about false advertising (much slower than previous versions), misleading consumers (it barely works and only part of the time), and outright fraud (they call themselves programmers - not), things for which Adobe needs to vigoursly defend itself. Open betas are required. Suck it Adobe. This is as the heading reads: A DISASTER, Irwin Allen style. I heard any patch for PS won't be until the 2Q or even the 2H of 2009.

Make that, suck it up Adobe.

John Josh:

No Zbrush can not. I dont use Zbrush for photomanip. I sculpt film resolution 3d characters in it.

Zbrush uses a fancy software rendering system that runs off CPU alone and while pushing 16+ millions of polygons its still faster than CS4. I mean CS4 is quite slow at editing a 4 layer, 10 mp image. Especially if you toss an adjustment curve layer in there and try to manip the curve points (feed back is extremely slow compared to the old non layer "adjust curve".

Perhaps its just the texture bandwidth of my gpu but... I would expect better performance from 2D vs 3D.

Didn't you have to sign a non-disclosure agreement? if yes, re-read it.

Reaon, you are correct. I was refering to the splash screen, not the build. I stand quite corrected. In furure posts I will refer to the particular build.

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see the chart on this page and check out hte code name column:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe_Photoshop_release_history