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.

[_Russell_Proulx_]

I was trying to be diplomatic ;-)

[hhansard]

RP,

Get you...

I remember getting "the let's do this for the team" speach when I was a Systems Engineer in the 80's. We were "requested" to work (a minimum of) 10 hr days, 6 days a week on a rotating 3-shift basis for one year to "make the schedule". You can imagine the burn-out and resulting quality. I personally logged 450 hrs of OT that year. And quit after the project was in the bag (well, almost in the bag...)

H

[robertbj145]

The reality is that CS4 should not have shipped until now....
No not even now. Im back to CS2 until things stop crashing the program.

[Gast]

I am sure there were people at Adobe saying that too!

[Gast]

The share holders and wall street could care less as long as it makes money.

[Gast]

800 and counting

[Gast]

>The rise of the "suits" from thereon guaranteed the fall in quality for the end user.

sounds like the basis for

Terminator CS: The Rise of the Suits

ok. i had to reach for that one. sorry. :)

>The reality is that CS4 should not have shipped until now.... No not even now. Im back to CS2 until things stop crashing the program.

have you started your own thread on this?

[_James_M__W__]

Just to report back briefly after some testing.

The problems only occur in 32bit while 64bit PS working wonderfully. This would be great except that 98% of all the plugins used are not 64bit compatible. Both the patch dot release and 182.02 driver release are installed.

[Chris Cox]

James - ok, you need to report that to your GPU maker so they can narrow down the cause of the problem in their drivers.

[_James_M__W__]

@Chris,
Thank you. I will persue that with my manufacturer and report back if they have any good news.

[klsteven-vBdprK]

Chris,
I`d also like to contact nvidia about driver related bugs, but I cannot find any mail adress. Only one that seems to be related to Vista specific problems. Can`t you give us an email adress? Why don`t you put a thread on top of the PS forum with a nvidia mail adress?

[Gast]

http://www.nvidia.com/page/contact_information.html

[Gast]

http://www.nvidia.com/object/vistaqualityassurance.html

[Gast]

for future reference, i just went to nvidia's home page and typed: "contact" into the search box. :)

[Gast]

>i just went to nvidia's home page and typed: "contact" into the search box.

that's just crazy talk.

[Gast]

lol!

[Hudechrome-sd9sPI]

Don't you have too put "Carl Sagan" after Contact?

[hhansard]

LH,

Only if nVidia exists at the end of a worm hole...

Or maybe relocates to Pensacola...

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[_JoshP_]

The new 11.0.1 patch works great. It fixed all the brush lag problems for me. Everything runs smooth and fast now. Brush strokes are instant.

Thanks Adobe!