update video drivers? not sure if this one’s been fixed though. i’ve seen it mentioned a couple of times.
I turned off a whole load of features in my nVidia control panel and the problem I had with top menus after using full screen mode magically disappeared. I don’t know which one did the trick and I’m not sure whether I can be bothered to find out. Solutions to CS4 problems just get more and more exotic.
On the whole, despite new video drivers, new tablet drivers, XPPro SP3 upgrade, latest DirectX and removal of 3rd party plugins I still find CS4 clunky and slow in comparison to CS3. Up until LR2 (another disaster on my machine but I’m not alone) and CS4 I had always praised Adobe for producing exceptionally stable, bug free software out of the box. These two releases are now just about the worst software releases I have ever encountered. We just shouldn’t have to muck about with all these tortuous or drastic ( clean installs of the operating system ) experiments just to get these relatively undemanding applications to work.
relatively undemanding applications
that’s the only thing i disagree with. photoshop taxes your system like just about nothing else. there’s a reason it’s used as a benchmark for many of the big name manufacturers…
I think it is only used in benchmarks for easily measured discrete operations like rotation of large images where processing speed is the indicator. I still don’t understand why Adobe felt it necessary to involve the GPU, given the capabilities of modern multi core CPUs,
unless it is for features like filters we have yet to see in this release. I begin to think that the CS4 DVD should have come with a graphics card in the box.
I still don’t understand why Adobe felt it necessary to involve the GPU,
no, me neither. maybe i’ll "get it" once i get it though. 😉
I begin to think that the CS4 DVD should have come with a graphics card in the box.
for the price of the "extended" edition, i agree. 🙂
I’m with Dave on this one. Once I get CS4 (which should be soon) I’ll either curse the GPU involvement or wonder why all the fuss. Since I do not have a high-end graphics card I’m keeping my fingers crossed.
I still don’t understand why Adobe felt it necessary to involve the GPU, given the capabilities of modern multi core CPUs
The appearance of pixel bender may be a clue to why Adobe is involving the GPU of the graphics card. Certainly the demo filters work very quickly and I suspect there is much, much more to come…
Anthony.
Hi Wolf,
Take care, get the trial first!
I spent my $200 too soon.
I’ve a low-end graphics set-up, Dell dimension 2400 with on board 64Mb video and RAM at the maximum of 1GB, for this board.
No chance of GPU or much else!
Nice to sit and look at screen but don’t try to do anything else.
I still have to do my work on CS3 as I need it every day.
I really can’t see that a new video card could help as most of the big boys are using 4-5Gb RAM and at least three HDD’s as well.
Hoping that the clever guys can do something to make it useable in the future, but I’m really not expecting very much.
Surely I can’t be the only one in the world with a good basic set-up and want to continue using Photoshop.
Regards to all.
John
