CS4 Trial: Semi Transparent!?

SD
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Steve_Depi
Dec 26, 2008
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I just installed the CS4 Trial and it’s not displaying properly. Immediately following installation, it worked properly. But, after exiting then later re-launching CS4, it comes up transparent only about 15% visibility (i.e., I can barely see it). I’ve restarted CS4, rebooted the machine, confirmed OpenGL is disabled in CS4 preferences – no dice.

Any ideas?

XP (32bit), Q6600 C2Q, 4gb RAM, ATI Radeon X1950 Pro
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PECourtejoie
Dec 26, 2008
The whole user interface?
Can you post a screenshot?
SD
Steve_Depi
Dec 26, 2008
Yes, the whole interface. Here’s a screenshot, with CS4 selected as the active application and Firefox the inactive application.
< http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3134/3137727643_97db5b9e7b_b. jpg>

I just launched CS2 and now it’s exhibiting similar behaviors, which it never did before. Some shared library must be involved…
DM
dave_milbut
Dec 26, 2008
isn’t that a vista thing?
DM
dave_milbut
Dec 26, 2008
oh, it might also be a video driver thing. check the control panel (nvidia or ati)
SD
Steve_Depi
Dec 26, 2008
I just installed the latest driver from ATI(AMD) website, it’s XP 32 bit system.
DM
dave_milbut
Dec 26, 2008
I just installed the latest driver from ATI

look in the settings for the ati control panel. i think you get there though control panel> display> advanced (could be wrong on the specifics though). it’s been a while since i’ve had ati, but i’m pretty sure i remember something with setting windows transparent.
RK
Rob_Keijzer
Dec 26, 2008
Don’t know about Vista, but isn’t this some sort of "theme" thing?

Rob
SD
Steve_Depi
Dec 26, 2008
Got it. There’s a setting in ATI’s Hydravision Properties on the HydraFX tab – Enable Window fade-in. Disabling that fixed the problem. Thanks for the tip, dave, I was pulling my hair out.
DM
dave_milbut
Dec 26, 2008
Disabling that fixed the problem.

bingo! 🙂 it HAS been a while but i usually remember when i see options like that…

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