Quadro FX 3450 + CS4 – Incompatible?

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Christopher_Heath
Feb 16, 2009
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Hello all, first time post here.

I’ve recently installed Photoshop CS4 along with the production premium package on my workstation, a Dell Precision 690 (XP 64 bit).

The video card in this workstation is listed under the device manager as a 3450/4000 SDI – I installed the graphics driver for the Quadro FX 3450 dated January ’09, and I’m still unable to use openGL features in photoshop. (Graphics hardware acceleration is unavailable)

I read that the 3450 is not on the supported/tested list of video cards released for CS4.

Any ideas on a fix for this? Tomorrow if I have no answers or options I’ll just re-install CS2. CS4 is about 5x slower than CS2 at the moment, drawing on-screen with large files chugs along in square chunks, where it would display perfectly smooth in CS2, with only very minor hangs when zooming large (100mb+) files.

Anyone got anything?

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David_E_Crawford
Feb 17, 2009
PS CS4 is not supported in XP 64 bit.
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Mylenium
Feb 17, 2009
Or more down to the point: OpenGL is not supported when running the 64bit version of CS4 on XP64, but it may work perfectly in the 32bit version. If it doesn’t, either the card is utterly incompatible (unlikely) or you need to install a new driver/ tweak some settings.

Mylenium

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