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Q6600 processor, 4GB Ram, Vista 32… and I’m having the same issues as many people with having CS3 loading files (and responding to tools, etc) about 10 TIMES slower than in all other versions of Photoshop.
I’ve seen as a fix for this, that you have to have all offline or network printers turned off. I’ve done this, and it doesn’t help at all. All my printers are local, and even when all are on and working, it still takes 10x longer to do anything in CS3 than it does in CS2 or before.
I even tried to install the "Generic Postscript Printer" driver in Vista, which is only attainable by a work-around.
When I did this, only when I had this set as the DEFAULT printer did it seem to improve on this somewhat. And I mean, somewhat. The mouse scrolling sped up some, and files loaded a little quicker. Still easily 2 to 3 times slower than all other Photsohop versions on my machine.
THIS IS NO FIX!
Who honestly wants to set a pretend ancient printer as their default one, JUST to get Photoshop CS3 to do what it’s supposed to anyway? Adobe really needs to come up with a fix for this… as it stands, CS2 is far superior on my machine, and 5.2 works even FASTER (yes, I still use that version for some things, because it uses simpler methods for text and things).
I have played around with the 3d acceleration on and off, disk cache, swap disks, compatability mode… no matter what I try, the result is the same. The best CS3 can do is to load files 3 to 10 times slower than CS2.
Since Adobe seems to be dragging their feet on fixing what I consider to be a fatal issue… does anyone know of a better fix than pretending your "Generic Postscript Driver" printer is your real one? And then how to speed up CS3 to be on par with CS2?…
CS3 was supposed to be the only version Adobe will make to be "Vista compatable"… and so far… it’s the only one I use that ISN’T. Thanks for any help out there….
I’ve seen as a fix for this, that you have to have all offline or network printers turned off. I’ve done this, and it doesn’t help at all. All my printers are local, and even when all are on and working, it still takes 10x longer to do anything in CS3 than it does in CS2 or before.
I even tried to install the "Generic Postscript Printer" driver in Vista, which is only attainable by a work-around.
When I did this, only when I had this set as the DEFAULT printer did it seem to improve on this somewhat. And I mean, somewhat. The mouse scrolling sped up some, and files loaded a little quicker. Still easily 2 to 3 times slower than all other Photsohop versions on my machine.
THIS IS NO FIX!
Who honestly wants to set a pretend ancient printer as their default one, JUST to get Photoshop CS3 to do what it’s supposed to anyway? Adobe really needs to come up with a fix for this… as it stands, CS2 is far superior on my machine, and 5.2 works even FASTER (yes, I still use that version for some things, because it uses simpler methods for text and things).
I have played around with the 3d acceleration on and off, disk cache, swap disks, compatability mode… no matter what I try, the result is the same. The best CS3 can do is to load files 3 to 10 times slower than CS2.
Since Adobe seems to be dragging their feet on fixing what I consider to be a fatal issue… does anyone know of a better fix than pretending your "Generic Postscript Driver" printer is your real one? And then how to speed up CS3 to be on par with CS2?…
CS3 was supposed to be the only version Adobe will make to be "Vista compatable"… and so far… it’s the only one I use that ISN’T. Thanks for any help out there….
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