Photoshop CS4 is a disaster

Fred, yes, I saw that other post.

BTW, I have no Nik plugin's installed.

There are probably multiple causes, as well as people describing different things (blind men, elephant), and people with different tolerances for "slow".

It'll take a while to work it all out. But we want to rule out the known problems so we can move on and find the rest.

That's hardly conclusive proof of the root of the problem!

People have had slow-downs with other or no AV running, and others have had no slow-downs with AV running.

About 20 secs here - was 3-4 secs until I added the few plugins I have, and in light of comments elsewhere I'll blame the Nik one - DFine 2.0 - for that. As it appears to have no other effect on the running of CS4, and is a useful way to quickly reduce noise, I'll suffer the loading slowdown gladly.

What's the hurry at startup, anyway?

Nick, Chris hinted that iVan hit the mark blaming AV in another thread

http://www.adobeforums.com/webx/.59b71909/30

(Post #32)

20 seconds isn't a problem for me, I was used to it with CS3. In the grand scheme of things, start-up time is not one of my burning priorities.

Now, I have another report to make: I ordered a new machine from Costco on Black Friday, and it finally arrived today. Pretty good specs for the price; Intel Core Duo Quad 9300, 4 GB RAM, 1 TB hard drive, Vista Home Premium 64 bit installed, for $600. My thought was that I would replace my surfing machine, which was getting a bit long in the tooth, with this new one.

I fired the new one up, had a look around, uninstalled the Norton trial that came with it, and installed CS4. Bingo! Everything works quickly and as advertised. And, the GPU (GeForce 7050) is built in to the MB. All of the GPU acceleration stuff seems to be working fine, no lagging on text typing, etc.

This doesn't get me any closer to figuring out my problems on my work machine with CS4, but it's nice to see CS4 run the way it's supposed to.

What I may end up doing is using some of the components from the new machine to build a new work machine, but that's somewhere down the road, after (or if) Adobe gives us any solutions/updates.

I'm about 2 seconds here.

Pull the internet connection disable all A/V and try that way.

I'm on 32 bit XP Pro with a sinle Core AMD Athlon 64

Takes about 20 seconds over here. I'm guessing that has something to do with the other lagging problems I'm seeing after it opens.

2 to 3 sec here alos, on 32 bit OS and anormal HD both CS3 and 4.

2 to 3 second load time here too. The raptor just spits then bits out like there is no tomorrow.