Display quirks

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IRC
Mar 17, 2009
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I’ve noticed a couple of display quirks that may or may not be related…

When I open an image or use the menu a fine line is drawn across the top of the program window. It goes completely across the window through the PS logo, menu, and window controls. Oddly, this only happens when the program is maximized. Mousing over the buttons removes the line, minimizing then maximizing Photoshop removes the line.

When moving images around they stick at first, start moving but then are occasionally jerky. Moving image windows around was always smooth in previous versions. Also, the initial click causes the background to flash through. Continuing to drag the image around the background will randomly flicker through. Releasing the mouse button at the end of the move also flashes the background.

Any ideas what is causing these?

Some system specs..
3.0GHz Pentium D
2GB RAM
NVIDIA GeForce 7800GT 256MB (w/ latest driver installed) XP Pro SP3
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IRC
Mar 17, 2009
Now that I’m playing around with the program I noticed that it’s really hard to move text around. There seems to be a half second or more delay between when you start moving your mouse and the text starts moving.
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Mylenium
Mar 17, 2009
Your machine by no means is halfway up to snuff (no offense), compounded by your graphics card probably not being qualified, too. You’ll have to live with it. I’m pretty much in the same boat with my 4 year old machine here at home, but I never expected anything else…

Mylenium
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IRC
Mar 21, 2009
It meets or exceeds the listed system requirements and the video card is in the family of one of the cards listed on the "List of tested graphics display cards for Photoshop CS4". Other KB articles indicate that cards in the same family should work fine.
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Zeno_Bokor
Mar 21, 2009
The graphics card raw power/feature wise is good enough however the real problem with it is that it’s old which means that nvidia aren’t going to spend a lot of resources on fixing problems with it. If you have third party plug-ins try disabling them, otherwise the only solution would be to disable OpenGL
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IRC
Mar 21, 2009
The line and duplicate minimize, maximize, and close buttons show up regardless if OpenGL is selected or not. I’ll delete any plugins and see if that helps.

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