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Hi all:
I’ve been trying out CS4 while waiting for it to come in at the University computer store.
At work on my new Dell Optiplex 755 with 4gig of memory, it flies! At home with my old Gateway and HP laptop, not so good. The openGL stuff doesn’t work on either one. The video card in the Gateway is an ATI 550 with 250meg of memory and the latest drivers I could find. It claims to have openGL 2.0 but it doesn’t work.I found a bit of software on the web that checks to see if your video is suitable for a video game. It claims that my system has openGL 2.0 and should work with the published spec’s for CS4 but it doesn’t work. This all reminds me of the early days of personal computing with the compatibility wars were manufactures fought over who was most compatible and if the software didn’t run it was the hardware’s fault not theirs.
My suggestion is for Adobe to make a video test tool that users could use to validate their video hardware and software. I would like to buy a new laptop for use with CS4. But it is hard to tell looking at the spec’s for laptops if they will work. If I had this tool on a thumb drive it would be easy to check.
All in all I’ve spent more time with software and hardware problems affecting Photoshop than I’ve spent on any other programs. As an engineer I use some powerful and complex software, and none of it is as fussy as Photoshop is.
John Passaneau
Physics Electronics Shop
Penn State University
I’ve been trying out CS4 while waiting for it to come in at the University computer store.
At work on my new Dell Optiplex 755 with 4gig of memory, it flies! At home with my old Gateway and HP laptop, not so good. The openGL stuff doesn’t work on either one. The video card in the Gateway is an ATI 550 with 250meg of memory and the latest drivers I could find. It claims to have openGL 2.0 but it doesn’t work.I found a bit of software on the web that checks to see if your video is suitable for a video game. It claims that my system has openGL 2.0 and should work with the published spec’s for CS4 but it doesn’t work. This all reminds me of the early days of personal computing with the compatibility wars were manufactures fought over who was most compatible and if the software didn’t run it was the hardware’s fault not theirs.
My suggestion is for Adobe to make a video test tool that users could use to validate their video hardware and software. I would like to buy a new laptop for use with CS4. But it is hard to tell looking at the spec’s for laptops if they will work. If I had this tool on a thumb drive it would be easy to check.
All in all I’ve spent more time with software and hardware problems affecting Photoshop than I’ve spent on any other programs. As an engineer I use some powerful and complex software, and none of it is as fussy as Photoshop is.
John Passaneau
Physics Electronics Shop
Penn State University
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