My System:
NVIDIA GEFORCE 8600M GS
AMD Turion 62 X2 TL-56 2CPUs ~1,8Ghz
2046MB Ram
Windows Vista Ultimate
Start by reading the other threads on this.
Bob
My System:
That's what I meant.
Anyway, CS4 is a pretty demanding piece of software to be running on a notebook. Only the latest and greatest (and pricy) ones will run this type of software as smoothly as a desktop.
Also, 64-bit software is pretty much overkill for notebooks right now. A lot of your 2GB RAM is eaten by your OS alone which doesn't leave much for apps like PS. If you can, get another 2GB for your notebook. That should help some. Also, make sure you have plenty of disk space available for scratch and, if possible, get hard drives at 7200 RPM or better.
Also check the notebook power settings to make sure they aren't hindering it's performance. And the usual preferences within PS itself.
As far as notebooks go, yours is pretty good. The 64-bit OS was probably unnecessary, though, unless you needed it for other apps.
I´ve tried every possible checking and unchecking of what preferences
have to offer but to no avail.
My GeForce drivers are the very, very, latest and Vista home is automatically up to date.
I keep my system neat and tidy with registry aids, defrags etc.
Needles to say that PS CS 1 ran smoothly.
Specs are:
Acer Aspire 9920 (20" screen monster), 4GB RAM, 500 GB Drive,
GeForce 8600M GT w. 512 MB
Lost.
Erbs
I spent over 2 hrs reading it through and through, but in short they're working on the problem and they were able to replicate it on some systems.
There were some suggestions on keeping your card up to date, cranking the zoom cache between 6 and 8 (solved the problem on at least one guy's machine, but for the most part it's just a minor improvement, it certainly didn't make CS4 usable for me), and turning on the "Enable OpenGL" checkbox on, but turning everything off in the advanced settings below (that helped a few more guys as well, but not everyone - myself included). I contacted nvidia today, and if I hear anything I'll post it to the thread I mentioned.
One person suggested a simple comparison test that few of us did with similar results. create a blank white document with US paper preset. Get a 100px, 100% hard brush at 25% spacing and run it quickly side to side, top to bottom and see how much lag there is. Mine was about 6 sec behind by the time I got to the bottom (CS3 has no lag whatsoever, for example).
At least two people noted that the size of the window makes a dif. If you resize your Photoshop so it takes a small fraction of the screen, the program runs lightning fast. Bu who wants to work that way?
Anyway, patience is the name of the game. However, Adobe has been accepting returns without a say-so from what I hear - I'm running a trial version, so I can't vouch for that though.
When I first put Photoshop CS4 on my system and I had the Nik software
filters Photoshop CS4 was virtually unusable.
Once I had disabled the filters Photoshop was usable.
NIK
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