PSE 3.0 & Win98SE?

Ron G wrote:

I ordered PSE 3.0 from Amazon without reading the fine print about it only running on XP. I wanted to upgrade from 1.0 on a Win98SE P4 with loads of RAM. Called Adobe and customer service person was very rude when I asked if she could tell me why it 3.0 would not run on 98SE. Sent me over to technical support where, on my phone nickel, I was told I had to spend about $40 to get an answer to my question. Anybody have any advice before I send it back? I know it is a memory intensive program. I have XP Home on a laptop but have read there are glitches galore with Home. Hmmm.

Keep PSE and toss Win98se. 98 is a crash a day (minimum) OS Don’t believe everything you read, XP is solid.
Why don’t you install PSE on your laptop and see by yourself?

Stephan

Adobe personal have covered this several times after Photoshop CS was released. Adobe made the move of dropping support for older OSes because they were poorly constructed, they crashed a lot, were not up to date and most importantly limited them in what they could do as far as program features. Windows XP is much more robust, less crash prone, more modern and can handle the hard stresses that high end programs like Photoshop put on it.

Now I am sure you are thinking "I am talking about Photoshop Elements 3 not the full Photoshop". True but doesn’t matter. Photoshop Elements 3 uses the Photoshop CS engine which means it have almost the same requirements for a stable OS as Photoshop CS.

You will also find that more and more programs are going to require at least Windows 2000 and I figure soon they won’t even go back that far. I suggest you just upgrade to XP and don’t fight it. Make sure you download all of the security patches, etc. for it.

John

"Ron G" wrote in message

I ordered PSE 3.0 from Amazon without reading the fine print about it only running on XP. I wanted to upgrade from 1.0 on a Win98SE P4 with loads of RAM. Called Adobe and customer service person was very rude when I asked if she could tell me why it 3.0 would not run on 98SE. Sent me over to technical support where, on my phone nickel, I was told I had to spend about $40 to get an answer to my question. Anybody have any advice before I send it back? I know it is a memory intensive program. I have XP Home on a laptop but have read there are glitches galore with Home. Hmmm.

Ron G wrote:

I ordered PSE 3.0 from Amazon without reading the fine print about it only running on XP. I wanted to upgrade from 1.0 on a Win98SE P4 with loads of RAM. Called Adobe and customer service person was very rude when I asked if she could tell me why it 3.0 would not run on 98SE. Sent me over to technical support where, on my phone nickel, I was told I had to spend about $40 to get an answer to my question. Anybody have any advice before I send it back? I know it is a memory intensive program. I have XP Home on a laptop but have read there are glitches galore with Home. Hmmm.

There are a sprinkling of OS calls that are not supported in W98, and the ICC engine calls are different.

While it is possible to support both OS’s in one program – Curvemeister supports back to Win95, for example – it is cumbersome for developers to keep track of older OS calls in a program the size of PhotoShop. Add to that testing and support for an OS that only a few customers use and it starts to look attractive to just walk away.

Besides, CS cut off all the Mac 9.x, and even pre OSX 10.2.4 customers. The fact that Win2K works is surprising, let alone 98.

All that said, you’re probably going to be fighting an increasing tide of other programs that require a newer OS. I would not hesitate to recommend that you upgrade your system to XP or at least Win2K.
—

Mike Russell
www.curvemeister.com
www.geigy.2y.net

I appreciate the recommendations about upgrading to XP, which I do like on the laptop (actually a small VAIO subnote) in terms of crashes, boot time and overall stability, etc.(though it’s a bugger on my home net sometimes). However, over the years I have developed a very stable relationship with SE on my two desktop pc’s, and have a backlog of equipment and software that may or may not be compatible with XP according to the guys who built my computers — and right now I would like to avoid the investment in two XP’s in favor of other software I need. In any case, I probably haven’t had more than a crash a month or so (and I’m a heavy user) and certainly Elements 1.0 runs smoothly and quickly on my systems. I know 3.0 has a couple of features I would like,and was hoping I could get it running more or less smoothly on one of my existing systems, the subnote being a bit small (unless I connect it to a monitor) to justify the investment at the moment. Doubtless I will upgrade, but when that happens I will go for CS.

Thanks.

John Doe wrote:

Adobe personal have covered this several times after Photoshop CS was released. Adobe made the move of dropping support for older OSes because they were poorly constructed, they crashed a lot, were not up to date and most importantly limited them in what they could do as far as program features. Windows XP is much more robust, less crash prone, more modern and can handle the hard stresses that high end programs like Photoshop put on it.

Now I am sure you are thinking "I am talking about Photoshop Elements 3 not the full Photoshop". True but doesn’t matter. Photoshop Elements 3 uses the Photoshop CS engine which means it have almost the same requirements for a stable OS as Photoshop CS.

You will also find that more and more programs are going to require at least Windows 2000 and I figure soon they won’t even go back that far. I suggest you just upgrade to XP and don’t fight it. Make sure you download all of the security patches, etc. for it.

John

"Ron G" wrote in message

I ordered PSE 3.0 from Amazon without reading the fine print about it only running on XP. I wanted to upgrade from 1.0 on a Win98SE P4 with loads of RAM. Called Adobe and customer service person was very rude when I asked if she could tell me why it 3.0 would not run on 98SE. Sent me over to technical support where, on my phone nickel, I was told I had to spend about $40 to get an answer to my question. Anybody have any advice before I send it back? I know it is a memory intensive program. I have XP Home on a laptop but have read there are glitches galore with Home. Hmmm.