CS4 with Quadro FX 1700 512MB (Tested Video Cards?)

[Jason_...@adobeforums.com]

After seeing a topic posted here with tested video cards, I went to the link to confirm my card was indeed supported and it is on the list of tested cards. <http://kb.adobe.com/selfservice/viewContent.do?externalId=kb405711&sliceId=1>

I only installed this card yesterday, replacing my GEForce 9800GT and last night when working with Photoshop certain things were incredibly slow, I was working with the sliders in Selective Color and there was a massive delay when I dragged a slider so much so that is was virtually unusable. So I went into Photoshops preferences and disabled the Open GL Drawing and immediately Photoshop was responsive again.

This begs the question why the performance got so bad with Open Gl turned on with a card that Adobe has tested? Could it be a driver? Could it be a setting on the Driver? I do have the latest driver from PNY, I am running the card under Vista 64.

Any insight would be most welcome.

[El...@adobeforums.com]

Is your driver version 182.08 - the latest release dated 26th Feb? See here <http://www.nvidia.com/object/winvista_x64_182.08.html>

[Jason_...@adobeforums.com]

Thank you Elli, I checked PNY's web site and they only had the older 181.20 driver, thanks for the link I have updated to the new driver, turned Open GL back on and voila, works perfectly now.

Thanks again :)

[El...@adobeforums.com]

You're welcome. :-) I always find it best to check manufacturers web sites for driver releases as they seem to be more actual.

[Jason_...@adobeforums.com]

Yesterday suddenly Photoshop got all sluggish again, I turned off OpenGL and then Photoshop works fine again. Nothing has changed since I last updated the driver, no updates of any sort, anyone have an idea why this could happen?

[chris_...@adobeforums.com]

While the videocard is a very important factor there might be other issues at play...please post your full specs.

How many hard drives do you have?

RAM?

M/board etc?

The small clues may help resolve the problem....

Could be drivers or it could be hardware...let us know..we will be pleased to help.

[Jason_...@adobeforums.com]

Hi Chris

Sorry for my belated reply and thanks for offering to look into this.

Here's my full specs:

Intel DX58SO motherboard
Intel Core i7 965 Extreme (Thermalrite Ultra-120 Extreme Cooler)
Kingston DDR-3 6 GB
4 x Seagate Sata-2 1TB drives
OS: Windows Vista 64
PNY Quadro FX1700

I've tried various drivers on the video card and for only one day I was able to run Photoshop with OpenGL turned on, a day later it went all sluggish again and nothing changed in my system from the one day to the next.

I've also played with settings (application specific) on the video card driver but it does not seem to improve anything either.

Is there a way to completely and utterly remove the video drivers so I can reload them fresh? Vista always seems to hide copies of these things even though you do full uninstalls of them.

[Zeno_...@adobeforums.com]

Install Driver Sweeper <http://downloads.guru3d.com/Driver-Sweeper-beta-2.0.0-download-2186.html>, uninstall the graphics driver using Programs and Features, restart computer, while booting up press and hold F8, you'll get a menu from which select Safe Mode, once in windows(it will look ugly) run Driver Sweeper and clean the nvidia display driver files left

[Jason_...@adobeforums.com]

Thanks Zeno I will give that a try and report back if I have any success.

[Q_P...@adobeforums.com]

Jason,
I use an INVIDIA 9800GT (7.15.11.7556 driver not newest) , Vista 64 & PsCS4. No slowness at all. Only very minor problems and none that slow production. Just to let you know that your 9800GT may not be your problem.
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