Photoshop CS4 is a disaster

My system (which I built) works fine:

Asus P5K Premium Mobo
Intel P35 chipset
Intel Q6600 (2.4GHZ, 800Mhz, 2x6MB, Quad Core)
8GB DDR2 800 Mushkin 4-3-3-10 RAM
BFG nVidia 8600GT OC 512 Mb
Four 500GB (7,200 rpm) SATA II
DC power supply 850 Watt
Windows Vista Ultimate (64-bit)
Two Dell Ultrasharps ( 1920 x 1200, 1680 x 1050)
Two LG DVD/CD drives.

Running Adobe Master Collection (full load), Quark 6.5 (for compatibility), CorelDraw X3, Pagemaker 7 (for compatibility), Office Professional 2007 (full load) & Maya 4.5. I also run SystemSuite 9 for maintainence. Don't do games on this machine.

I have noticed a lag if you scrub a slider really fast, the slider does not keep up with the mouse pointer, but if you click in the slider where you want to go, the update is immediate. So the answer is 'don't scrub the slider quickly'.

If I use the liquify filter with a 150px brush and run it over the canvas really quickly eventually eventually the brush will not respond while it updates. The question is: How often do you need to to that?

If I use the flick-pan, there is a minor stutter if I look really hard, but it is not enough to make a complaint.

If you are having major lags I apologize, for the whiners out there who think that the whole program will run like glass not matter what you throw at it: GROW UP!

Still immensely satisfied.

As stated in another thread, I had lag problems too (panning and rotating), but the lag dissapeared when I went to PS preferences, Performance, leave "Enable OpenGL Drawing" on, but under Advanced Settings turn off eeverything.

And yes, I maintain a separate pc for PS and such, no cr*p comes near that one.

Rob

Most people that have problems have nvidia cards, because the majority of PS users simply seems to use nvidia.

It is interesting that looking at the people having problems I see two
reoccuring themes here.

1. AMD processors.
2. Nvidia graphics cards.

Having been burnt by AMD once before I now always go Intel...

Robert, you've been hammering on this for what—about 3 years? Maybe you should give it a rest.

I am indeed talking to ATI about this. Trouble is that I've had issues with this card since day one and never managed to get it resolved while my warranty was valid. I'm just being patient and negotiating as best I can.

I can still benefit from many of the features while I'm resolving my graphics issues with ATI. My laptop has an nVidia card (8600M GT) and while this is one of the cards Adobe tested, there's the problem with the cursor. No updated drivers available either, I'm a bit stuck with that one! I haven't tried to turn on the GPU features on that.

Thank you Chris.

Joanne

>We are slowly gathering information and reproducing some of the problems. Some are still drivers, a few might be bugs, and a few look like issues with XP and window ordering.

Thank you, Chris. Finally, an admission that there might be bugs. As I have said before, I'm more than willing to help you work on this. But, I do Have The Most Recent Drivers. (Caps are in response to what you said to me.)

I installed CS4 the day it arrived. Everything has worked as advertised. What am I doing wrong?

Intel 5400 chipset
Intel Xeon E5410 (2.33GHZ, 1333Mhz, 2x6MB, Quad Core)
8GB DDR2 667 Quad Channel Memory 667MHz
512MB PCIe x16 nVidia Quadro FX 3700
160GB (7,200 rpm) SATA
Two 500GB (7,200 rpm) SATA
DC power supply 875 Watt
Windows Vista Business (64-bit)

Hmm, restarts and whole system freezes are bad - usually hardware, firmware or driver issues. You definitely need to talk to ATI about that.

CS4 is far from a disaster. I have some graphics issues with both desktop and laptop, but even without the GPU features active, CS4 is a definite improvement over previous versions. We all have an infinite combination of motherboards, graphics cards and such like, such that it really is impossible for the software to run without a hitch on every machine.

The software has only been shipping for about three weeks, it's early days. Okay, quite a few people are posting to this forum, but there are probably a big majority of users who have had minimal problems and who are reaping the benefits.

My graphics card meets the minimum requirements for Open GL and Shader, but the computer restarted if I switched on the GPU features. I have updated the driver and it now freezes up if I use the lasso tool, but no restart. I suspect there's some other requirement for this to work. My PC is only 20 months old and reasonably well spec'd. Asus PB5 motherboard with the P965 chipset, an ATI Radeon 1950 XTX graphics card with 512MB graphics memory and 3GB normal ddr2 RAM, Core Duo E7500 processor.

I'm sure some fixes will come and an update released to improve things.

Joanne

Nick - one more time: if your card and driver work correctly, you shouldn't have to turn it off.

We are slowly gathering information and reproducing some of the problems. Some are still drivers, a few might be bugs, and a few look like issues with XP and window ordering.