Cs4 brush lag - problem solved

I downloaded the evaluation version of Photoshop CS4. Like many others, I found it unusable. The main problem was an enormous lag in using the brush: when painting, I had to wait for several seconds to see the result.
I tried all suggestions: update drivers for graphics adapter, update DirectX, hacking the registry, deactivating antivirus software.... No matter what I did, with or without OpenGl drawing activated: the brush was terribly slow, unusable really...
So I gave up and went back to CS3: works like a charm, no problem. A shame though, and regretting some nice CS4 features.
Wanted to give it 1 more try, and this time looked at some BIOS stuff. Tried a few things with no luck UNTIL ..... enabling palette snooping. That did it: CS4 flies, no more lag..... feels even a bit faster than CS3.
Asus M2V motherboard with Athlon 64 X2 3800 and AMI BIOS, NVIDIA GeForce 7600GT graphics adapter, Windows XP pro with SP3, 2 GB of RAM
Hope this will help others !
Happy New Year, Gelukkig Nieuwjaar, Bonne Année,
Rudolph Wijburg (Dutch, living in France)

I Feel everyones pain!!!!
After using Photoshop CS4 since it's release with virtually no issues and really enjoying the new features I started Photoshop this morning and experienced all of the issues in this thread!
Extremely slow and lagging brushes.
Jittery Zoom tool operation.
Text - very slow! I could type a 5 letter word and sit back in my chair and wait for it to catch up!
etc. etc.
If this would have been like this when I installed I would have immediately reverted back to CS3, completely unacceptable!
Turns out Microsoft update installed a new set of NVIDIA drivers!
I went to the NVIDIA site and downloaded the latest drivers, installed them and now everything is good again.
Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU Q6600 @ 2.40GHz (2400 MHz)
Operating System: Windows Vista (TM) Ultimate, 32-bit (Service Pack 1)
DirectX version: 10.0
GPU processor: GeForce 8500 GT
Driver version: 181.22
Total available graphics memory: 1790 MB
Dedicated video memory: 512 MB
System video memory: 0 MB
Shared system memory: 1278 MB
Video BIOS version: 60.86.48.00.16

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