New MacBook Air Photoshop CC Problems

I recently bought a 2014 Macbook Air. I own a Mac Pro which I generally use for Adobe CC, but I wanted something I could do light work on portably. As soon as I started working on Photoshop things were going crazy. The images started distorting, backgrounds would show my computer background instead of the default white background on photoshop, and the paint brush tools were pixelated. I don't know what is going on, and any help would be appreciated, as I have never had these kind of problems on my mac pro.

Go through the GPU troubleshooting steps in this document.
Photoshop CC and CC 2014 GPU FAQ
My thought is that the GPU shares the main memory and I'm thinking 4 GB is very sparse. Can you at least bump it up to 8 or 16 GB?
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