My workstation is a dual - dual core 2.33GHz with 3GB ram. I tried the reg keys posted by the Adobe engineer with no luck
Please advise. Thanks in advance.
I probably need to go back to CS3 until this issue is resolved. Very frustrating...
<http://img401.imageshack.us/img401/6075/58231107dn8.jpg>
<http://forums.nvidia.com/index.php?showtopic=83098>
Any help would really be appreciated.
Thanks!
<http://kb.adobe.com/selfservice/viewContent.do?externalId=kb405711>
Good Luck,
David
Just installed the CS4 trial, and having the same problem with a GTX 295 and the latest NVidia drivers.
Unfortunately, CS3 sees the GPU fine and offers it to me for 3D use. CS4 does not. I've tried both the x64 and x32 bit versions with the same result.
Thanks for the KB URL David, but it doesn't really help. Most worrying is that the problem has appeared in CS4.
PS itself runs exceptionally quickly, and CS4, without GPU support, is still significantly quicker than CS3 at handling 3D layers.
Mylenium
<http://www.adobe.com/go/kb406921>
To fix performance issues, install the 11.0.1 update (and the latest drivers for your graphics card).
<http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/detail.jsp?ftpID=4292>
Dell XPS 730 H2C
Vista 32-bit Ultimate (waiting for Windows 7 before going for 64-bit)
4GB RAm (2.5 addressible due to dual sli GTX 280s)
Creative Suite 4 Master Collection
Microsoft Office 2007
Omnipage 16
Flex Builder 3
Really surprised you're encountering GPU/PS problems with the 295. Really surprised.
Thanks Fred for the XPx64 link - I can find no similar articles about Vista though, so I'm still unclear whether the lack of OpenGL support is down to 64-bit issues or anything else.
<http://kb.adobe.com/selfservice/viewContent.do?externalId=kb404898#vista64> suggests that there should be no such problems with Vista64.
Unfortunately there are reports of the Adobe Updater also working incorrectly with Vista x64, so I think I may just enjoy the phenomenal speed of the demo for a few days and wait 'til CS5.
The only problem I am having is with CS4 spotting the video card. The image at: <http://www.loveyourpix.com/images/preferences.png> compares CS3's preferences (top, video card spotted) and CS4's (64-bit) preferences on the same machine. The KB article Fred pointed at had this classic line:
"If the card is too old to understand the commands, or you are running Photoshop CS4 on Windows XP 64-bit Edition, Photoshop doesn't talk to the display card, and turns off all OpenGL features."
Strange that a conversation started in CS3 extended should be stopped in CS4.
Like I wrote before, on the whole CS4 performs at a very impressive rate, and even without the OpenGL support 3D handling is still much better than CS3's on the same machine.
WRT drivers and video card settings, the card is using the prepackaged Photoshop CS4 and CS4x64 settings as defined in the NVIDIA control panel. (My main reason for trying the demo was actually because of Bridge - Bridge CS3 does not support quad core processors and Version Cue scripts in Bridge fail to run).