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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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      Anonymous
      November 24, 2008
      True!
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      Anonymous
      November 24, 2008
      > If Adobe is depending on folks to build their own machines and re-install the operating system to get CS4 to work, they have lost touch with reality.

      Several people have installed CS4 successfully on a shop-bought system (Dell in my case) and everything works fine straight out of the box.
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      _Mark_John_Murphy_
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      November 24, 2008
      If Adobe is depending on folks to build their own machines and re-install the operating system to get CS4 to work, they have lost touch with reality. Only a tiny percentage of the user base know about building machines or even want to think about re-installing the operating system. That is way to disruptive to even contemplate.

      I want to spend my time creating in photoshop. Make me a version that runs on the "common" hardware currently available from Dell, HP, whoever. You can make another version for the 10 people who give a crap about building their own machines and messing around with operating systems. There is discussion here now about maybe the software installed on Dell, etc. machines when shipped is the problem? Pulleeeeeeze. Get real. Wake me when Cs4 is fixed.
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      ArrrBee
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      November 24, 2008
      When I went from CS3 to CS4 I couldn't install CS4 because of a profile
      being locked. Even with technical supports help we couldn't get the file
      rights/permissions to unlock the file. The only way I could get CS4 to
      install was to backup my data (easy since most is on a secondary drive)
      format, reinstall Windows and then install CS4. This worked fine. It is a
      lot of work and yah it does miff me a bit but I look at the bright side of
      it and that is it fushed Windows system and now everything is nice and clean
      and tidy. I like to compare to have a stopped drain, you can use liquid
      plumber to get the water flowing again, but using a drain snake really
      cleans it out and removes any nasty build up. Since when you install and
      uninstall stuff you never really get rid of all of it, doing this from time
      to time isn't a bad idea. But, having to do this to get a program installed
      is a bit of a miff.

      Yes, I did remove CS3 before hand, that was one of the first things I did
      and one of the first things technical support asked about. In the end it was
      all down to one profile file that just wouldn't let itself be overwritten
      and there was nothing that could be done to get to let itself be
      overwritten. I have had this happen with two files on my desktop, they were
      zero byte files but I couldn't delete the icons for them.

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      Walter Elias
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      November 24, 2008
      I have a professional work station I built myself, with the help of an uber-geek friend. Not a single unnecessary piece of junk was installed, and I regularly disable and uninstall junk such as all those annoyances that come with so many programs which continually scan for updates.

      I also have a self-built computer filled with junk installed by my teenage son.

      CS4 lag problems on both of my systems. Ironically, it's worse on the "clean" workstation.

      No Dell or other pre-built computers. Though my view of Dell (which my wife has) is that they come installed relatively cleanly. The only thing to get rid of is the trial version of an AV program.
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      Anonymous
      November 23, 2008
      >If you buy from the small business side (which I highly recommend) you
      can buy machines no junk at all on them.

      that's what i was gonna say. and the prices are usually better on comparable systems vs. the consumer (home user) side.
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      Anonymous
      November 23, 2008
      That's where I got mine.
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      Anonymous
      November 23, 2008
      Nope. The only thing from them is a small partition with the recovery files on it.

      Edit: Larry you obviously haven't bought a Dell Workstation lately. I even had to buy my AV program!
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      Hudechrome-sd9sPI
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      November 23, 2008
      Dell (and others, most likely) will not allow a spec by the buyer that stops with only the OS. They insist on their particular AV, for instance. I can understand that for the general public, but for the computer capable, that's not acceptable. If they insist on shipping with a/v, then there should be allowance for the buyers preference. As is true for anything else.

      With Dell, wouldn't it be true that to re-install (now from a partition, not a disk), you would simply be re-installing all their preferences for add-ons?
      BobLevine
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      BobLevineCommunity Expert
      Community Expert
      November 23, 2008
      Dell ships all of its machines with an operating system disk, not a
      recovery disk. You can do a clean install of the operating system sans junk.

      If you buy from the small business side (which I highly recommend) you
      can buy machines no junk at all on them.

      Bob
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      Anonymous
      November 23, 2008
      JJ: You mean that Dell did not install any of their 'own software' anywhere on the system? Highly unlikely.
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      _mlkgrant_
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      November 23, 2008
      I just wanted to put my 2 cents in. I haven't noticed any lag between CS3 and CS4, though I am a newBE in using CS anything, I use CS4 Web Premium. I've followed some tutorials on lynda.com and all worked as advertized. I do this in a dual monitor mode using the 780i SLI motherboard with a Q6600 quad core processor, and 4 GB RAM. My graphics card is the ATI Radeon HD4870 X2 2GB memory. My 32" HDTV is connected via DVI to HDMI, and I use that monitor for watching training videos, and preform task on my 22" SyncMaster 2253bw set at 1680 x 1050 @ 60Hz. Of course, I haven't enough experience with Photoshop's more advanced features yet to say anything about those, but the rotate image works even with large TIFF or JPEG file formats for me. My system's only 2 months old as of today, (happy birthday) almost time to upgrade... :)
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