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November 5, 2008
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Photoshop CS4 is a disaster

  • November 5, 2008
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I'm am just at a loss of words.

What a mess. It could not be any slower. What were you thinking Adobe?

You ripped apart the code just to add GPU support for what? To provide worse performance?

Make sure you DL the demo first... CS4 is a disaster.

The latest hardware cant even run it smoothly... Dont tell me its graphic drivers.
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      _James_wasneuski_
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      November 25, 2008
      David, Thanks for your reply. Laptopvideo2go is where I got the latest drivers from. I tried the latest and several others, none worked well. I also saw that the 8600m was supposed to have been tested with cs4. I never had any 'issues' with cs2, or any other programs, even with vista, on this laptop. The only issues were with cs4.
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      Anonymous
      November 25, 2008
      James,
      You do know your laptop has well documented GPU issues right? I "used" to own the same laptop as yours. I didn't not have any problems but there are a lot of GPU's that have failed or have rendering problems.

      Nvidia has spoken on the issues and also you can find all sorts of information on the ASUS website forums.

      Here is a website that you can, if you wish, to look into updating drivers on your own. Use at your own risk. Do a system restore first.
      You already may know of this site.

      Hope this helps you out.

      www.laptopvideo2go.com
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      _emil_emil_
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      November 25, 2008
      Hi,
      I started a thread about a problem I'm having with Photoshop CS4 http://www.adobeforums.com/webx/.59b71909/4
      but I was told that this thread here is dedicated to similar issues. So please check the link above and consider my input as part of this thread. I started to read the messages here starting from the last one backwards hoping to find some solution to the problem but it is a long thread with a lot of noise and after going through a number of messages worth several pages, I decided to ask if someone current to all information here can kindly summarize it for me by answering a basic question.
      Is there some suggestions in this thread that were helpful to users with problems like mine or is this thread something that users are hoping to make Adobe take notice and fix this problem?
      I appreciate your help.
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      _ProArtist_Author
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      November 25, 2008
      yeah it did kick in... I cut it down to be more concise and clear because for one, i had a typo "stay away from Cs3"... should have been "CS4" :)

      And i wanted it to be clear that CS3 runs better on Vista than CS4. CS4 may run better on Vista than XP, but its ridiculously slower than CS3.

      I trimmed my rant down.

      On a side note...

      Unsharpen Mask is a lot slower in CS4. CS3 is almost realtime, while CS4 is very slow.
      BobLevine
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      BobLevineCommunity Expert
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      November 25, 2008
      You should further clarify it to say that these are your findings on
      your system.

      CS4 is faster than CS3 on mine.

      Bob
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      _Phos_four_dots_
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      November 25, 2008
      Did you guys see ProArtist's latest reply before he trimmed it down?
      " Vista does not run CS4 better. I dont care what you say. CS4 runs terrible on all OS's due to bugs in the software. CS3 runs faster on Vista than CS4.

      I recommend staying with CS3 unless you really like punishment.

      Adobe is looking into the performance problems with CS4, and so far there is no solutions.

      Stay away from CS3. You've been warned. There is a trial. DL the trial and see for yourself. Make sure you give it a good going over, but if you're like most of us, you will notice right away that CS4 is ridiculously slower than CS3."
      The chill pill must've kicked in.

      ;) XD
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      Anonymous
      November 25, 2008
      JJ: I got one of those copies too. Imagine that.
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      Anonymous
      November 25, 2008
      Funny that, the copy of CS4 I have has no bugs.
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      _ProArtist_Author
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      November 25, 2008
      Vista may run CS4 better than XP... but CS4 runs terrible all together due to bugs.

      CS3 is far faster in all aspects on all windows OS's.
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      _James_wasneuski_
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      November 25, 2008
      I have Vista on my laptop, and it still has problems.
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      Anonymous
      November 25, 2008
      > Then why on earth weren't we told this up front??

      Maybe it's just me, but I thought it was common knowledge. Even if not, still to be expected what with Vista being out well before CS4's release.
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