Photoshop CS4 is a disaster

[_ProArtist_]

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.

[Guest]

>3,499 each.

bloody insane.

[Fred_Nirque]

Will be $34.99 in a couple of years, tho'.

[_obviologist_]

so I hate to be a nay-sayer to all of you complaining about CS 4's speed, but I have it loaded on 2 machines. one is a macbook with 2 gig of ram and a dual core 2.3 ghz processor and the other is a mac pro with 2 2.66 ghz dual core processors and 3 gig of ram, and on both machines CS4 runs like the dream that CS2 and CS3 never was.

I have tested the start up and shut down times of all three versions of CS and 4 outperforms the others by 10-12 second and the processing of the images I am working on is great.

I am most happy with bridge and adobe camera raw, the new features added there are so fantastic i nearly wet myself.

[Guest]

Yup. Another happy bunny here!

[dtemplems]

It seems to be a little slower even though I have 4 Gigs of RAM. Does anyone know how to get rid of the "welcome" screen with all of the Adobe CS4 team members?

Don

[Guest]

> Does anyone know how to get rid of the "welcome" screen with all of the Adobe CS4 team members?

What's that then?

Care to post a screen shot?

[dtemplems]

When you start CS4 or CS3 the blue box with all of the CS4 team member appears. I was wondering if one could cancel it.

[Guest]

Don: It has no effect on startup, it just keeps you occupied while the rest of the app loads.

[dtemplems]

Yes, I know it has no effect. However, I would like to get rid of it.

[Guest]

That is the Splash screen and apart from the names of the team it gives a running indication of what's loading.

If PS freezes or hangs while loading, you know what it was doing at the time.

You can't get rid of it.

[Guest]

Yep, and I hope that's all I see!

[dtemplems]

OK. You guys must be using a mainframe to run CS4. I thought CS3 was pretty fast but CS4 drags.

[Guest]

< 2 seconds to load.

[Guest]

2 to 3 second load time here too. The raptor just spits then bits out like there is no tomorrow.

[Hudechrome-sd9sPI]

2 to 3 sec here alos, on 32 bit OS and anormal HD both CS3 and 4.

[Guest]

Takes about 20 seconds over here. I'm guessing that has something to do with the other lagging problems I'm seeing after it opens.

[Hudechrome-sd9sPI]

Pull the internet connection disable all A/V and try that way.

I'm on 32 bit XP Pro with a sinle Core AMD Athlon 64

[Guest]

I'm about 2 seconds here.

[Guest]

20 seconds isn't a problem for me, I was used to it with CS3. In the grand scheme of things, start-up time is not one of my burning priorities.

Now, I have another report to make: I ordered a new machine from Costco on Black Friday, and it finally arrived today. Pretty good specs for the price; Intel Core Duo Quad 9300, 4 GB RAM, 1 TB hard drive, Vista Home Premium 64 bit installed, for $600. My thought was that I would replace my surfing machine, which was getting a bit long in the tooth, with this new one.

I fired the new one up, had a look around, uninstalled the Norton trial that came with it, and installed CS4. Bingo! Everything works quickly and as advertised. And, the GPU (GeForce 7050) is built in to the MB. All of the GPU acceleration stuff seems to be working fine, no lagging on text typing, etc.

This doesn't get me any closer to figuring out my problems on my work machine with CS4, but it's nice to see CS4 run the way it's supposed to.

What I may end up doing is using some of the components from the new machine to build a new work machine, but that's somewhere down the road, after (or if) Adobe gives us any solutions/updates.

[Fred_Nirque]

About 20 secs here - was 3-4 secs until I added the few plugins I have, and in light of comments elsewhere I'll blame the Nik one - DFine 2.0 - for that. As it appears to have no other effect on the running of CS4, and is a useful way to quickly reduce noise, I'll suffer the loading slowdown gladly.

What's the hurry at startup, anyway?

Nick, Chris hinted that iVan hit the mark blaming AV in another thread

http://www.adobeforums.com/webx/.59b71909/30

(Post #32)

[Guest]

That's hardly conclusive proof of the root of the problem!

People have had slow-downs with other or no AV running, and others have had no slow-downs with AV running.

[Chris Cox]

There are probably multiple causes, as well as people describing different things (blind men, elephant), and people with different tolerances for "slow".

It'll take a while to work it all out. But we want to rule out the known problems so we can move on and find the rest.

[Guest]

Fred, yes, I saw that other post.

BTW, I have no Nik plugin's installed.

[_Adam_Jerugim_]

Another call for volunteers:

If you are experiencing a performance lag using CS4 (especially with OGL features disabled) and are interested in helping test a change that may mitigate the issue, please email me directly: travlin_adam at yahoo dot com

Sorry for the long absence on my part - I have been following this and other threads and we're still on the case.

-Adam

[Hudechrome-sd9sPI]

A heads up about slow start.

I am doing a series of tests across multiple platforms and OS. I have a utility that takes over a minute on Vista Ultimate 64. On Vista 32 bit, it opens in about 2 seconds.

here is confirmation of these times with different folks.

It may be the OS