Photoshop CS4 is a disaster

Nothing ya'll might suggest when i get my new machine? How to test it and report back to the forum?

You know, dontcha,

That once I recieve my new machine and I work through all the complaints/flaws poted here, I might or might not share/post the results.

If there is no interest . . . I'll keep the results to myself.

I guess when you select the cache file for ps cs4, the same drive is auto selected for bridge. I never told bridge to use what drive. But I looked in bridge and it was set to the same drive. No biggie.

I am sure adobe 9 reader has the same reaction. I did not see any option in prefernces though.

Oh well, back to work!!

Thanks Dave,

I also noticed that Adobe reader 9, saves a page of a pdf in a folder on my hard drive where my scratch disk is. I downloaded a pdf form, saved a copy to C drive documents, and printed a copy off the web to fill out and mail in. There was 6 pages to print and only the last page printed is in a file on the scratch disk.

Also what ever file I open in bridge it saves a thumbnail copy of each item in the whole content of the file on my scratch disk.

Also pdf files I have saved on a usb stick, that I left plugged in a usb port, is also on that scratch disk.

Weird how all this gets on the scratch disk used by photoshop.

At least two people in this thread will be happy to hear that after close to 50 hours of testing I finally have a solution for the speed issue.

Erbs and Hugh smile! Youre it.

Trivia: I originally spelled that Herbs and Ugh before I corrected it (Im a bee dit wyslexic). No offence!

Full report here: http://www.adobeforums.com/webx/.59b7373e

As for the chicken, why did it cross Ethiopia in a first place? We might never find out

iVan signing off!

I can "hardly" restrain myself.

My Dell XPS 730 H2C is overdue -- delayed twice. Apparently, there is a problem acquiring Nvidia's GTX 280 card.

By comparing present 730x . . . 730 H2C offerings by Dell cannot be found online anymore, except by virtue of Google cache preservation -- difference between what Dell offered to me as a "limited time only" offer to get rid of their 730-whatever inventory has everything to do with the newer 730x machines which uses the Intel® Core i7-965 Extreme processor. Good for me. Couldn't afford the new machine.

Mine will come with Vista Ultimate 32 and 4 GB DDR3 RAM. Maximum 8 GB DDR3. (Did not have a choice) The 730x bought by others will come with 6 GB Trichannel DDR3 running under Vista xxxxx 64.

The 730 H2C and the 730x H2C are Gamer's machines. I am not a gamer. I don't even own a game. Not one.

What the Dell offerings share in common is an option I've exercised: SLI Dual GTX 280 (total) 1 GB cards with supporting nvidia motherboard.

I'm presently running CS4 MASTER COLLECTION on an XPS 400 with minimum inconvenience . . . IMHO.

When my new machine arrives . . . anything you guys want me to try and report?

Glad you cleared that up dave it needed saying to avoid any misconceptions. There's plenty in the knowledge base for those that want to learn more.

i'd like go off topic for a second to clear something up... sorry.

>When your ram is used up photoshop cs4 puts your files in a scratch disk.

typically that's the definition, however in photoshop, the scratch is used more like "main memory" and real physical RAM is used like we would normally think of as "cache memory", to speed up operations. so everything really goes through the scratch disc, which is why you get that huge scratch file whenever you open ps and start to do any work.

I just have ps cs4 ext. When I click the icon it takes only 3 seconds to be up and running. Pretty darn fast in my opinion. I have a Artisan 800 on USB. Works perfect. No driver conflicts. I am happy.

Although this does not help, I would like to point out that I have a Xerox Phaser 8550 network printer as my default and this does not affect the speed of PSCS4. The only point I can make is that sometimes it is driver issues, the print drivers from Xerox are obviously of a better cut.

By the way, I have the CS4 Master collection installed, if you want slow, start up Premiere, AfterEffects or InDesign, they are definetely slower starting up, but still perform quite well once up and running.