Probably true, so they shouldn't claim to support Vista with driver upgrades then. Just drop support and be done with it. By the way, performance of the card was quite acceptable with some of the driver versions (the older ones especially), it just wasn't ever stable. The newest drivers were both sluggish and unstable.
On the original topic of this thread, I found something else Adobe dropped in CS4: It used to be possible to duplicate an image by right-clicking on the window title bar. That no longer works. Now we have to go to the Image menu and choose Duplicate. I don't know who got it up their behind that people all want tabbed displays, and that any other way of using the system will be made more difficult.
Well, I am posting this a bit later than I had hoped too, but it turns out that my CS4 upgrade didn't actually arrive until last Friday. The first shipment from the supplier that was supposed to to be the CS4 Web Premium upgrade actually turned out to be a full copy of Elements (go figure!), but at an invoice price for Web Premium! It took a few days to sort that one out and I've had limited time to 'play' with CS4 since installing it on Saturday.
I was however very happy and pleased with the install. It went very smoothly with no problems. I was surprised (and pleased) that a lot (not all) of my settings from CS3 were actually recognized during the install and imported directly into CS4. This is certainly a first for me, as with previous upgrades I have always had to reconfigure Photoshop and Bridge after the new install. All was not completely consistent however: Photoshop did not import my custom workspace for dual monitors, but it did import all of my actions (but not scripts), my color settings and the majority of my preferences. Bridge imported all of my keywords, my custom workspace and my metadata templates. Believe me, this is very welcome as in the past it has been a PITA to recreate all the settings from a previous version. Due to limited time this weekend, this is about as far as I've gotten, but I'll post more as I actually get into processing some images.
Also, just another word about Vista 64. I mentioned in an earlier post that I had installed Vista 64 on a test machine and was impressed. Once the new hardware arrived and I built the new machine which is the final home for CS4, I transfered the hard drives from the test machine to the new machine. Vista 64 booted the first time! Amazing!! My first PC was the original IBM with two 5 1/4 floppy drives and about 32 (or 64) K of memory. I've been building my own machines ever since and never have I made such drastic hardware changes (different MB, different memory, different processors) and had a machine boot the first time. I fully expected to have to reinstall the OS this time and was really amazed that I didn't need to. Another plus for Vista in my book!.
I did a clean install of CS4 on a new OS install so I can't comment on whether actions came over or not, but, overall, I'm happy with the upgrade. The UI is a little different but I guess that's progress.... I found I really didn't care for the tabbed windows and quickly turned that off.
I haven't had a real chance to give it a major workout, but I'm impressed with the quick load time. It loads very quickly on the laptop with its single 5400rpm drive, CS3 took a lot longer. Interestingly enough, I don't see nearly the speed improvement in loading on the desktop, using two Raptors in RAID 0.
I do like the fact that it loaded both 32 and 64-bit versions on Vista 64-bit, took me a while and a minor panic attack to figure out my plugins were 32-bit and I had to run that version to use them.
On a side note, I have to agree with Noel on his Vista/nVidea issue... Spending K$ for a piece of professional gear and then finding out two years later the company won't support a two-year-old OS would hack me off too! I was very pleasantly surprised to find 64-bit Vista drivers for my HP LaserJet 8000n, a printer that's been out of production for several years. Kudos to HP!
Anyway, I'm relatively new to Photoshop having used Elements up until last January when I finally bought CS3. So I guess I haven't been around it long enough to find the UI changes objectionable. Seems like the same old program with a slightly different look and some nice new features. The 64-bit version works fine on Vista and it seems to be a bit snappier and more responsive, even on the laptop.
Bill
White Balance so easy, even our 5 year old can do it.- Melissa Strickland
This is a very interesting thread, I wanted to ask
"was there any reason for me to load PS CS4 over CS3?"
I had just today (new years eave in Sydney) received my copy of CS4 but I'm still happy with CS3 in my new machine.
It does seem like I need to go 64bit Vista though judging from some of the remarks here...
I'm still using 32bit XP which even the doods whom made my latest hot rod recommended I stick with for now.
It all works very well and very fast.
Bill.
White Balance so easy, even our 5 year old can do it.- Melissa Strickland
Now we have to go to the Image menu and choose Duplicate. I don't know who got it up their behind that people all want tabbed displays, and that any other way of using the system will be made more difficult.
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