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I’m currently using PS 6 and am seriously considering taking an the upgrade route to CS Premium since I’m also currently using GoLive 5 and Acrobat 5; there seems to be both financial and features incentives that will benefit my work flow by upgrading at the reasonable price of £650 or so. I passed over an upgrade to PS 7 since I was waiting for the more feature-rich CS to appear.
I’m about 15 days into using the Photoshop CS trial and have darn near tore out my hair in frustration over the fact that it’s seemingly buggy and unresponsive in certain situations when compared to the trial version of PS 7 – or even to functions in PS 6.
I do a lot of work for the web that involves repurposing images taken on a 2.0MP digital camera – the file from the camera sizes are in the 250KB region, so we’re not talking major problems… but no matter what, CS slows to a crawl when working on them. FYI 75% of system memory is allocated to PS, and the pagefile is set at 1GB.
The heal and clone stamp tools are unresponsive, resizing and zooming takes forever and even brush strokes take an age to appear. The only way I’ve found to correct this behaviour is to immediatley save the image as a .psd file from the outset – but I don’t think this should be necessary.
My PC is of reasonable specifications and has never had issues running either PS 6 or PS 7 trial, and I fully expected it to cope adequatley with CS; specs will follow at the end of the post. I’ve even been considering moving to 2GB of PC3200 DDR and 2 x 74GB 10K rpm S-ATA drives to boost performance, but don’t want to shell out an additional £700 + if the issues are not directly related to hardware.
What I really need to know is how many of you out there are experiencing similar issues (it seems like quite a few from browsing the posts here) and if Adobe are tackling these problems. I don’t want to shell out £650 for the upgrade only to be hamstrung when I’ve got a lot of work on the go. I’m no newbie to either PS or PC’s since I’ve been using the former for four years and building the latter for six… but I’ll be damned if I can figure out what’s causing these problems.
Specs:
Windows XP Pro with all updates applied
Intel P4 2.4GHz / 533MHz FSB
MSI 848P Neo-LS Motherboard (Intel 848P Chipset)
2 x 512MB PC2700 DDR @ 333MHz
80GB 7200 RPM HDD with 8MB cache (System / Apps / Pagefile) P-Master 40GB 7200 RPM HDD with 2MB cache (Other Apps / Scratch Disk 1) P-Slave 20GB 5400 RPM FireWire HDD (Backup Drive / Scratch Disk 2) DVD ± RW/RAM Drive (Optical Backup) S-Master
16 x DVD Drive (Optical Media) S-Slave
1 x Zip750 USB 2.0 (Magnetic Backup)
nVidia GeForce FX5900 Ultra / 256MB, driver version 53.03 Onboard Realtek AC97 compliant audio
Onboard Realtek 10/100 NIC
Generic 3-Port FireWire PCI card
Wacom Intuos2 Platinum A5, driver 4.77-11
I’m about 15 days into using the Photoshop CS trial and have darn near tore out my hair in frustration over the fact that it’s seemingly buggy and unresponsive in certain situations when compared to the trial version of PS 7 – or even to functions in PS 6.
I do a lot of work for the web that involves repurposing images taken on a 2.0MP digital camera – the file from the camera sizes are in the 250KB region, so we’re not talking major problems… but no matter what, CS slows to a crawl when working on them. FYI 75% of system memory is allocated to PS, and the pagefile is set at 1GB.
The heal and clone stamp tools are unresponsive, resizing and zooming takes forever and even brush strokes take an age to appear. The only way I’ve found to correct this behaviour is to immediatley save the image as a .psd file from the outset – but I don’t think this should be necessary.
My PC is of reasonable specifications and has never had issues running either PS 6 or PS 7 trial, and I fully expected it to cope adequatley with CS; specs will follow at the end of the post. I’ve even been considering moving to 2GB of PC3200 DDR and 2 x 74GB 10K rpm S-ATA drives to boost performance, but don’t want to shell out an additional £700 + if the issues are not directly related to hardware.
What I really need to know is how many of you out there are experiencing similar issues (it seems like quite a few from browsing the posts here) and if Adobe are tackling these problems. I don’t want to shell out £650 for the upgrade only to be hamstrung when I’ve got a lot of work on the go. I’m no newbie to either PS or PC’s since I’ve been using the former for four years and building the latter for six… but I’ll be damned if I can figure out what’s causing these problems.
Specs:
Windows XP Pro with all updates applied
Intel P4 2.4GHz / 533MHz FSB
MSI 848P Neo-LS Motherboard (Intel 848P Chipset)
2 x 512MB PC2700 DDR @ 333MHz
80GB 7200 RPM HDD with 8MB cache (System / Apps / Pagefile) P-Master 40GB 7200 RPM HDD with 2MB cache (Other Apps / Scratch Disk 1) P-Slave 20GB 5400 RPM FireWire HDD (Backup Drive / Scratch Disk 2) DVD ± RW/RAM Drive (Optical Backup) S-Master
16 x DVD Drive (Optical Media) S-Slave
1 x Zip750 USB 2.0 (Magnetic Backup)
nVidia GeForce FX5900 Ultra / 256MB, driver version 53.03 Onboard Realtek AC97 compliant audio
Onboard Realtek 10/100 NIC
Generic 3-Port FireWire PCI card
Wacom Intuos2 Platinum A5, driver 4.77-11
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