Photoshop CS4 is a disaster

>I run Adobe ColdFusion Enterprise

I'm sorry.

Actually Buko, I disagree. I run an advertising agency and know a number of people that are having problems and just aren't posting (including myself). It shouldn't take an outside group of this magnitude to waste our time responding to every post that comes through. We paid a decent price for this software and it is Adobe's responsibility to get it right. I agree with a number of people (including a number of my associates) -- this is just shotty code - plain and simple. If Adobe would like to pay us for our time to beta test, then by all means, we would consider it. But when you are going to charge $1,500 per license for a suite and then expect to launch a less-than-sufficient product, then no offense, but it's on them.

I am part of a number of beta communities for open-source software and provide a great deal of support for free. But let's face it, Adobe is not open-source (at least the last time I checked my credit card statement).

The fact of the matter is -- Adobe missed the boat when it came to building CS4 with all of its users in mind. I run Adobe ColdFusion Enterprise - an $8,000 product. We use ColdFusion to host most of our websites for a number of high-profile clients. If all of a sudden (even though we had a top-of-the-line Dell server), ColdFusion would not work because we did not meet a right video driver, I would be outraged.

Because Photoshop is a graphic-intensive program, we have generally given Adobe the benefit of the doubt and assume that they will fix their mistake in short order. But to expect that every single user that is having a problem is going to post on here is ridiculous. I made my case earlier in this thread - I do not need to waste hours a day on this.

There is an old saying - 1% of people participate while the other 99% of people absorb and do not participate. This is just reality. My point is - if 1% of your users are actually stating on a forum that there is a problem, then the actual number of people that are having the problem is probably MUCH greater. They are simply waiting in the queues for a solution.

There is a problem. Adobe needs to come up with a solution.

Ray

Funny that!

Well the people who are regulars do not seem to being having problems.

>based on the amount of whine about performance I point my finger on Adobe.

the 2 or 3 guys whining on this forum is not a good example of a bad product. If Photoshop was performing poorly for everyone this forum would be full of complaints. like every thread would be a complaint.

So logic suggests its your computer.

The FSB question can be answered with the new Intel i7 processor with the Nehalem chipset.

David,

Thanks for your tips. The RAM is not a bottleneck, if you see some comparisons of "high end" superfast memorys you will see the actual difference in performance is almost non-existent. And it all comes down to used FSB.

I actually already updated the DirectX to the latest versions and installed new .Net-framework. After that I updated to catalyst 8.11.

Results: no performance improvement on phothoshop, still very laggy.

Everything else works so perfectly so the only thing that comes to mind is that Photoshop CS4 is poorly coded or the hardware requirements are ridiculous. Of course there might be something wrong on my system, but based on the amount of whine about performance I point my finger on Adobe.

I am positive they do not update. Just knowledge from research to help my friends computer issues and building systems and such that they need updated too.

Yes Vista has 10.0. . However, you need a video card that can run 10.0. Plus whatever software that can take advantage of 10.0.

Vista still needs directx 9.0 to run your directx 9.0 software. People on here have said updating has helped with their issues with CS4. Also opengl drivers are only updated by card manufacturers.

.Net 2.0, according to ATI, is the "least" version to correctly run CCC. I was using .Net 3.0 and CCC had worked better. When my hard drive crashed a while ago I just downloaded the .Net 3.5 update and was done with it. Didn't notice any difference.

David,
how do I know, wether I need a DirectX or .net update? I thought DirectX 10 (which comes with Vista) is the latest DirectX version.
Are you sure that both of them don`t update if I do a Windows update?

When you finished your system did you download the .net update and directx update? Neither will auto download and both are really needed to run correctly with your computer. The .net and directx are needed for your CCC to run correctly too.

Also there are 8.11 drivers that may help.

Your ram specs seem to be a little slow too that could cause a bottle neck compaired to the rest of your hardware. Might think about upgrading to the max speed that your motherboard can use. Ram is so darn cheap now.

Did you defrag after you finished your install?

Look on the internet. There are lots of sites that give free information to help speed up vista too. I did and it made a world of difference.