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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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    Participating Frequently
    November 12, 2008
    Participating Frequently
    November 12, 2008
    http://www.parallels.com/ ?
    November 12, 2008
    there is no 64 bit mac version jm! :)
    Participating Frequently
    November 12, 2008
    http://www.apple.com/macpro/

    :D
    November 12, 2008
    What a cluster.

    If I knew what (if any) video card would work with CS4 on my system, I'd go buy one. Hell, I'd probably even build a new system if I knew exactly what components it takes to run CS4.
    Participating Frequently
    November 12, 2008
    And for me, the Nikon D3 or D700 will run on the current ACR in CS3. That's my upgrade route in the reasonable future.
    November 12, 2008
    > Driver version: 7.15.11.6931

    That's the driver that was there when I took the computer out of the box 7 months ago. I went to Help > System info... to find the version.
    Participating Frequently
    November 12, 2008
    > That's the driver that was there when I took the computer out of the box 7
    > months ago.

    For that card, the nVidia archive shows:

    178.46 November 11, 2008
    178.26 October 15, 2008
    169.96 June 6, 2008
    169.47 April 3, 2008
    169.39 February 22, 2008

    169.31 is not listed

    So it's old, but yet you're not having problems. Coincidence?
    Participating Frequently
    November 12, 2008
    Chris,

    That's good to hear. Perhaps you have better luck getting in touch with the folks at Nvidia, and swing more influence, then some of us do. I know I spent a fair amount of time on hold to get nowhere.

    Paul
    Participating Frequently
    November 12, 2008
    Quite right on the patience Lawrence. I should have known better, but I fell for it like Charlie Brown and the football. I didn't get CS3 until CS4 was almost here. I had gone to counseling and thought I had the problem licked, but it seems I fell off the wagon.

    As you've said, there isn't much in CS4 that I need for my current work either, except that I will be needing ACR 5 when the Canon 5D MkII becomes available. But there again, after Canon's 1dsMkIII problems, I don't think I want to be an early adopter there either.

    Paul
    Chris Cox
    Legend
    November 12, 2008
    Yes, different people are seeing different problems.

    And overall, not that many people are reporting serious problems.

    And just because Adam has reproduced a problem, doesn't assign the blame for the problem (we reproduce lots of OS vendor bugs, and hardware vendor bugs - then send the reports to the vendors to fix).