Photoshop and vista

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rouvin_anne
Feb 9, 2009
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Hi,

I’ve found similar problems with Vista and CS3/4, mine is with Photoshop CS with Vista and I didn’t find the right solution yet :

– With the Vista Aero theme selected, somme Aero effects are disturbing to work on photoshop : moving layers is slowered (like the windows of the explorer), it’s not much but disturbing for work.
– If I select the Vista Basic theme I don’t have this slowing layers issue but then I have the big lag/delay problem when painting with the brush (impossible to work).

– So logically I tried to select the Aero Theme + deactivate some of the bothering Aero options (Enable deskstop composition/animate windows). But when I do so Vista in fact automatically select the Vista Basic Theme, so I have the lag problem with brush again…

It seems a bit odd not to be able to work with protoshop properly on Vista, some of you may have a solution to this ?

Or is it back to XP and that’s it ?

Many thanks in advance,

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chris_farrell
Feb 9, 2009
What system specs do you have?

I don’t think CS is supported under Vista, but, it should work OK. Vista will require more RAM so *that* could reduce the amount for Photoshop and make life a little bit more difficult for it…….

See if there is an update for CS too….that may help.
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rouvin_anne
Feb 9, 2009
Thanks Chris,

Forgot to mention, sorry, it’s a brand new PC : Mother Card Asus P5Q, Intel Processor E8400 Core Duo 3 Ghz, 4 Go Ram, NVidia GeForce 8800 GT, 2xHD 500 Go Sata II 7200T.

This version of CS used to work fine on my old PC with XP.

The point is I’ve read (on this forum) about similar lags problems with CS3 so I wonder in which way it comes from using PS with Vista…
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chris_farrell
Feb 9, 2009
uuummm..it should be OK with those specs.

I would reset Areo back to default for now and try it in XP compatibility mode.

And have a fiddle with the preference. ( don’t forget to close CS and reopen to enable the changes).

Lower the History states to 10 or 15.

Up the ram usage to 80% – you might have tweak this abit

Move the cache up and down to see if that makes a difference.

Place a scratch disk on drive 2.

Also, if it’s a new machine there is usually an initial period when Vista is indexing, prefetching, etc which can slow disk access temporarily.

What size images and brushes are you using?……try the brushes with smoothing and other options disabled and see if that helps.

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