Using Photoshop S2 and Vista Problems.

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nancy_true
Jun 11, 2007
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I upgraded to Vista and now having some problems with CS2.

My system is a Pentium 4, 3.06 Ghz, with 2014 MB ram, 32 bit, Video card is NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200. I’m running the home version of vista.

My problems: 1st, When viewing a photo in photoshop there, at times, is a line of real small ( maybe 1/16 of an inch ) line running through the photo. This does not show up in the printing the photo. Also, if you run the cursor over the line is disappeares. Any ideas of what might be causing this?

By the way I have taken this up with Microsoft but they have no idea why it’s doing this.

The second odd behavior that it’s doing now. When using the quick mask option, I can not get the opacity of the selected obect to be 100%, even though that is what the setting is set at. If I use the select tool and move an object the opacity is 100%. Any ideas. Any help will be greatly appreciate.

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dave_milbut
Jun 11, 2007
from one of the ps engineers, way back:

Chris Cox – 01:17pm Feb 7, 2003 Pacific (#7 of 15)

If you zoom in and they go away, it’s probably the video card.

If you zoom in and out and they change, it’s probably bad RAM.

If the image looks fine, you save it, then reload it and it’s corrupted – then it’s probably the hard disk.
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babaloo
Jun 11, 2007
I have had some comparable experiences with CS3 under Vista, more in the nature of occasionally unstable windowing and unstable drop down box behavior, also with an NVidia card.
The NVidia Vista drivers are a constant work in progress and frequently updated so check their web site. Vista is being touted as a gaming platform, gaming taxes the computer and video systems far more than Photoshop, but to date is unusable as a high end gaming platform because both Vista performance and the NVidia drivers are simply not ready for prime time. If you can view your images without the small lines through them correctly in XP you are risking ruining them by viewing them in Vista as any rewrite may be corrupted. So if you can dual boot into XP and can see the images correctly back them up immediately to CD or DVD. As noted above images with lines or pixelation blocks may be corrupted on the hard drive. I am not arbitrarily knocking Microsoft but Vista is not ready for critical use by anyone, particularly for high end graphics. It is slow, unstable, has a bug that reportedly knocks calibration data out of the video card whenever those constant warning messages come up, and is incompatible with a variety of common software/hardware configurations and productivity, especially multimedia, programs.
I dislike Apple but I cannot believe they are not seizing on the Vista debacle to release their x86 OS to general use (well obviously they would instantly lose their monopoly on overpriced/underpowered hardware).

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