Photoshop CS4 limits

Hi,
Does anyone know, what are the limits of use of photoshop CS4?
I mean if i have a 8GB memory would cs4 would know how to use it ? Or maybe since it's GPU it's not that relevant and he can use up to 4GB for example?
Second question is regarding the processor, can cs4 use efficiently Quad core or it's a waste and Dual core is enough?
Thanks in advance,
Raz

Regarding the RAM You might read the paragraph headlined »Allocating Memory with 64-bit Processors« here:
http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/404/kb404440.html

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Before you do all this make the anti-virus is turned off. If windows defender is running turn that off too. If Adobe reader is installed renove that. Ensure no other adobe products are running in the background.
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I also have 4GBs installed ram. Right off the top, Windows strips 1 GIG to reserve space for Video Cards and other devices. I lose another .5 MB to the system.
This is a well-known limitation of 32-bit systems and like Jim says, there is little to be done except to upgrade to Vista 64. You can remove devices and stop processes and services, but you'll not ever see . . . at very best . . . 3.5 GBs. (Well, you might by using the /PAE switch, but that is more risk than I'm willing to play with.)
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Operating System: Windows Vista (Ultimate) 32-bit
Version: 6.0 Service Pack 1
System architecture: Intel CPU Family:6, Model:7, Stepping:7 with MMX, SSE Integer, SSE FP, SSE2
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Processor speed: 3666 MHz
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Video Card Renderer: GeForce GTX 280/PCI/SSE2
OpenGL Drawing: Enabled.
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Video Mode: 1920 x 1200 x 4294967296 colors
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Free memory: 1281 MB
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Memory used by Photoshop: 60 %
Image cache levels: 4
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I'm kinda keeping my eyes and ears open about Windows 7. Unless I encounter performance problems, I'd rather wait for the next version. According to rumors, the earliest date would be the end of the year, if not early 2010.

Photoshop CS4 64 bit - Clone Tool does not work (and other tools)

Hello.
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There are more, but this is to just give an example.
Notes:
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All I can say is... Boy am I glad I have an ATI card that just works (and that's including Photoshop CS4/CS5 32/64 bit)!
One thing I'm not sure was mentioned above... Try changing your Advanced OpenGL preferences to "Basic" or even turning off OpenGL to see if it affects the issue. Also try disabling the Show Overlay function in the CLONE SOURCE palette.
Best of luck getting to the bottom of these problems, guys. If they run on too long, consider switching brands.
-Noel

Photoshop CS4 Experience, Problems & Questions

Hi all,
i just installed my Production Suite Premium on the following System (fresh install, clean System, no other versions of Photoshop):
Intel E8500 Dualcore
Nvidia Geforce 9800 GX2 (Driver Version 178.24)
3 GB RAM
Windows XP Professionel SP3
Photoshop has its own Scratchdisk assigned with at least 50 GB free Space.
I know that the 9800 GX2 is considered to be a "Gaming-Card" but as a freelance artist i work for the game-industry on many occasions and I need a decent gaming hardware to test what I am working on. As far as I know, the card meets all requirements for CS4 and Nvidia tells me, that their GPU's are perfect for CS4. (wasn't a problem with any version before, I use Photoshop AND Nvidia-Cards since Photoshop 4)
Here are the things that bug me:
- Photoshop disables the OpenGL Features on random occasions, stating, that it has encountered a problem. This happens either in Two GPU-Mode or One-GPU-Mode.
There's no obvious reason for any errormessage, because IF Open GL is activated it seems to work pretty good, zooming and rotating works quite well and fast. I noticed, that the problem happens either after saving my file or when i open photoshop.
- Photoshop crashed on several occasions mostly concerning heavy transforming of multiple layers. It simply didn't respond anymore in the midst of the transormation-process.
My guess is, that this is also linked to the GPU/Driver. System-Memory is checked, GPU works like a charm in all other applications. CS3 has not once crashed in one year, so i guess it has to do with the changes made in CS4.
Strange thing is, that even with open GL deactivated, the above written problems occur. I would have thought, that with OpenGL dectivated, Photoshop would somehow become kind of CS3 again, but it seems, there had been to much changes to simply disconnect photoshop from it's new OpenGL interface.
Apart from these two Problems, Photoshop CS4 is doing ok. It feels kind of sluggish compared to older versions, but that might also change with some new drivers.
Sad thing is, that the rotate canvas feature and the extended moverange for images, the main reasons why i upgraded to CS4, are only working with
OpenGL activated. I really hope there will be a fix in the near future.
There are other questions concerning PS CS4's usability:
- The Scale-Brush Feature uses alt + right mouse buttons, what seems kind of strange when using a stylus (Even more when using a stylus without buttons like the wacom layout-marker).
I would prefer another combination of keyboard shortcuts plus stylus movement ctrl + alt for example. so far i have not found a way to remap the keys. Am i missing something? Or is this impossible?
- Is there a way to get window behavior back the way it was in CS3? The new way of handling windows is ok, but i liked the old one better. If i disable "floating windows docking" there's no way to maximize a window INSIDE the photoshop workspace. The maximize button on top of every window is right now completely useless because it maximizes the window AND gets rid of all the menus and palettes. I don't see why i want to do that.
That's it. I hope this is useful either for the guys at adobe or for other users. Every new Photoshop-Version has had its problems, i hope that these will just be dealt with like the ones before.
All the best,
Pickman

Photoshop CS4 does cause crashes. I can vouch for that too. When it happens, the first instinct is almost always to assume that something is wrong with the computer and start from there. Comments to this effect are prominent in many threads. It is also Adobe's prevalent approach. So people experiencing these problems will tend not to post on these forums. Statements like 'because there are only a few posts, a significant number of people are not experiencing [these] problems' are therefore unfounded. There simply has not been time yet for people to resolve potential hardware/system problems.
In my case, I started experiencing unexplained crashed with CS3 in July (see below) but it was only when Adobe admitted that they could be partly to blame that I posted my experiences (elsewhere) on this forum.
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The thing is I had been chasing a similar, probably related, problem with CS3 (possibly caused by cloning my system drive, see http://www.adobeforums.com/webx/.59b6bd8d/ ) while Photoshop was still activated, so I have had several months head start over anyone who may now be experiencing similar problems with CS4. As a result, Dell, whose support has been great throughout, have replaced just about every component under the hood of my PC, certainly everything that could be causing a problem. (GPU, CPU, memory, MB, PSU, disk controller, disk cables...). As a result, I am running a virtually brand new computer. Hardware and system problems have been all but eliminated. I have all the latest drivers for everything. It is virtually a brand new computer!
Yet PS/CS4 keeps crashing for no reason that can be established. Adobe have given me lots of homework to do to try to find out what affects it or remedies there are. It is all very tedious, but so far, nothing...
I am coming to the conclusion that there must be something intrinsically wrong with PS/CS4 that makes it incompatible with some systems and software installations, but not necessarily because of any fault with the latter. I have to say that, after initially trying to push me away, Adobe are being very helpful and clearly want (need?) to get to the bottom of this. The trouble is that when the system locks up, it is completely and utterly paralysed, so any diagnostic and error reporting systems are inoperative. This suggests something beneath or beyond Windows, and, if it is not hardware, this points the finger of blame squarely at the activation software, which uses rootkit technology. (Would this be the same on a Mac, I wonder?)
For the record, my system is a Dell Precision 370 desktop with Dell/Phoenix BIOS A08, 3.2GHz Pentium 4 CPU, Intel 925X chipset, 2MB ECC SDRAM, Nvidia Quadro FX3450 graphics, 2x Seagate 146MB Cheetah 5.5k disks (SCSI) in non-RAID configuration. From the limited experience I have had, it seems perfectly capable of running the software (apart from when it crashes, of course.)

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Heya Zeno,
Lol well thats annoying, at the least. Here I was concerned that after you helped me update my drivers etc, that I still had problems. I'll just check that box then to get rid of it. I would think that everyone reads it at least once, the first time they get it, then probably ignore it after that. Besides, why do I need to know a speicific topic in the forums to help me when I know you've got my back? Thanks for letting me know it's nothing serious though, I do appreciate it. Now on to becoming a PS master so I can go learn about InDesign
Matt

Minimal Photoshop CS4 Crashes . . .

I'm running Photoshop CS4 on an '07 Mac Pro with Photoshop GPU execration turned on. I had installed Photoshop CS4 after installing a new internal SATA drive and partitioning the new drive by the limited abilities of the OS 10.4.x Mac Pro OEM install DVD. Photoshop was freezing once in a while when I would do a "Save As" and one time I tried to "save as" a 65 MB PSD file, over itself, on a partition that had 350 MBs of remaining disk space and I received a message saying "operation cannot be performed do to drive error."
I read on the web about how the OS 10.4.x Mac Pro OEM install DVD does not partition drives to true Intel hardware & Serial ATA specs and that if you plan to continue to use Tiger on an Intel based Mac you must have your partitioning only done with a Leopard install DVD and then re-install Tiger after partitioning. I did not have Leopard so I purchased Snow Leopard and used Snow Leopard's Disk Utility to partition my drive for Intel Macs running Tiger, Leopard, and Snow Leopard, according to the selected partition option, and I did not select the option for partitioning the drive for PowerPC Macs.
I reinstalled Tiger, my CS4 apps and ran all of Apple's updates for the OS. I'm not having any drive errors anymore but Photoshop CS4 still freezes, half of the time, when I open a large multilayered Photoshop file and then do a "Save As." Once Photoshop displays the "Save As" window, where I select the destination, Photoshop freezes before I get a chance to hit the "Save" button.
I was running Photoshop CS4 version 11.0.0 while having the freezing problem. Since I have downloaded and installed the Photoshop CS4 11.0.1 Adobe Update, I have not seen the program freeze again yet. I'm also very surprised by how much faster Photoshop launches after this update.
If Photoshop continues to freeze when I do a "Save As," since I installed the 11.0.1 update, I'll share the news in this topic thread.

I'm running Photoshop CS4 on an '07 Mac Pro with Photoshop GPU execration turned on. I had installed Photoshop CS4 after installing a new internal SATA drive and partitioning the new drive by the limited abilities of the OS 10.4.x Mac Pro OEM install DVD. Photoshop was freezing once in a while when I would do a "Save As" and one time I tried to "save as" a 65 MB PSD file, over itself, on a partition that had 350 MBs of remaining disk space and I received a message saying "operation cannot be performed do to drive error."
I read on the web about how the OS 10.4.x Mac Pro OEM install DVD does not partition drives to true Intel hardware & Serial ATA specs and that if you plan to continue to use Tiger on an Intel based Mac you must have your partitioning only done with a Leopard install DVD and then re-install Tiger after partitioning. I did not have Leopard so I purchased Snow Leopard and used Snow Leopard's Disk Utility to partition my drive for Intel Macs running Tiger, Leopard, and Snow Leopard, according to the selected partition option, and I did not select the option for partitioning the drive for PowerPC Macs.
I reinstalled Tiger, my CS4 apps and ran all of Apple's updates for the OS. I'm not having any drive errors anymore but Photoshop CS4 still freezes, half of the time, when I open a large multilayered Photoshop file and then do a "Save As." Once Photoshop displays the "Save As" window, where I select the destination, Photoshop freezes before I get a chance to hit the "Save" button.
I was running Photoshop CS4 version 11.0.0 while having the freezing problem. Since I have downloaded and installed the Photoshop CS4 11.0.1 Adobe Update, I have not seen the program freeze again yet. I'm also very surprised by how much faster Photoshop launches after this update.
If Photoshop continues to freeze when I do a "Save As," since I installed the 11.0.1 update, I'll share the news in this topic thread.

OpenGL problem Photoshop CS4

I'm using Photoshop CS4 (Extended) on a machine running Windows XP (32 bit) SP/3 (with all the relevant updates from Microsoft).
Everything seemed to work fine for the first week or so, then one day Photoshop crashed with an error message related to OpenGL. I don't recall the exact message now, but it had something to do with the OpenGL features of the video card.
I restarted Photoshop, only to have it crash again with the same message. At that point, I checked the Adobe Web Site and came across the document "GPU and OpenGL Features and Limitations in Photoshop CS4" at the URL http://kb.adobe.com/selfservice/viewContent.do?externalId=kb404898.
I am currently using an nVidia 8800 GTS video card (512 MB video memory). After reading the document mentioned above at the Adobe Help site, I updated my video driver to the latest available at nVidia (described on the nVidia web site as Version 182.50, though it shows up on my computer's Device Manager as Version 6.14.11.8250, dated 3/27/2009).
Since installing the new driver, the option to "Enable OpenGL Drawing" under <Edit> <Preferences> <Performance> is completely grayed out.
I would really like to enable OpenGL if it's at all possible. Has anyone else encountered this problem, and is there a way to fix it?
--- D.M.
PS: I did update Photoshop to version 11.0.1, but that made no difference, the OpenGL Drawing option is still grayed out.

Thanks for the replies.
I reset the preferenced by pressing CTRL-ALT-SHIFT while starting Photoshop. This did not help, as the OpenGL option was still grayed out in preferences.
I then rolled back the video driver until I found one that worked. I had been using the latest WHQL certified driver from nVidia, version 182.50, which was not working with Photoshop. The one that finally worked was an older version: 181.22 (which is reported in Device Manager as Version 6.14.11.8122).
This finally un-grayed the OpenGL option, and I am now using Photoshop CS4 with OpenGL enabled. So far I have no errors, but it has only been half an hour since I did this, so it's too early to tell. I don't know how this driver rollback will affect the games I have on my computer. If there are problems with the games, I may have to go back to the newer driver and use Photoshop without OpenGL again.
I doubt that anyone from Adobe reads this forums, but I would like to say that I think CS4 is a very buggy release in terms of OpenGL. It doesn't help for Adobe to say that they are using "standard" OpenGL functions and it's the video card driver at fault. The vast majority of users will have either an nVidia or ATI based card in their computers, and it's Adobe's job to make sure that their program works with those cards. It's not like they have a thousand different hardware types to support, just two.
Also, while I posted this problem in nVidia's forum (and I am sure other Photoshop users must have done the same), it is completely unrealistic to think that nVidia will change anything based on input from Photoshop users. This is a tiny portion of their market, and their attention is already focused on gaming issues. So in the end if this problem is to have a solution, Adobe must adapt to whatever quirks nVidia or ATI cards have, because I can pretty much guarantee that nVidia or ATI won't adapt to Adobe anytime soon.
I hope Adobe fixes this problem soon, because it has spoiled an otherwise great product.
-- D.M.

Motion 4 and 3D objects from Photoshop CS4?

Anyone know if Motion 4 can work with 3D formats supported in Adobe's Photoshop CS4? i.e. U3D, 3DS, OBJ, DAE, KMZ??
Thanks, Rob.

Hmmm...yes and no.
For example Cinema 4D -- produce your 3D object and even animate it if so desired, leave off the lighting as one would want Motion to handle that since it can even if limited. Put the 3D object in Motion and go to town on composition with 3D camera motion and lighting. Motion is not really manipulating the object, but it's treating it as a real 3D object in a real 3D camera space. And for that matter Motion could do reflective surfaces (if updated to do so).
Yes they are different, but they are relative parts of the development of a composition (movie, commercial, or even just a web ad). It's part of the process, a part that is seriously MISSING in FCS 3 and in any Apple's pro applications lineup.
Now I realize Cinema 4D isn't cheap $1000 entry (unless you get Student version) up to $3600 for a full studio bundle. This is obviously a big step up. BUT, Apple don't necessarily have to go as far as Cinema 4D -- a simplified variant say equal to Cinema 4D core product $1000. If you think it justifies a separate product (similar to the now dead Shake) then sell it as such but provide support for it's output in Motion.
Point being, there is a BIG HOLE in the Apple Pro Application lineup. Apple have Aperture, FCS, LS, but nothing in the world of 3D. Heck, even a limited 3D tool is a start, something to fill the void -- like AC3D (support OSX) $80 -- even if somewhat primitive it can be start.
Sure, no full body and even room scanners like the Pro's use, but just to getting something primitive going.
Rob.

Photoshop CS4 not seeing all RAM on Mac?

I just noticed my Photoshop CS4 is not "seeing" all of the RAM I have installed on my MacPro (2x3Ghz), running Snow Leopard 10.6.1.
My "About This Mac" reports (correctly) that I have 6GB of RAM installed.
However, Photoshop's Preferences > Performance window says there is only "3072 MB" available -- or half what I have installed. I know there is system overhead for the OS, but this is with no other applications running.
I know the Windows version of Photoshop is limited to seeing 2GB RAM because it's 32-bit, but I didn't think that limitation applied to the Mac side.
I've run the memtest application on the Mac, and it doesn't report any physical problems with my chips.
Is there anything else I can check or try to get Photoshop to recognize all 6GB of RAM?
Thanks,
Robbie

R. Sinclair wrote:
I know the Windows version of Photoshop is limited to seeing 2GB RAM because it's 32-bit
Surprise... you are running a 32bit app as well. That is why you cannot see more RAM for Photoshop.
(Windows installs a 32- and a 64-bit executable. Mac only installs a 32-bit app)

Photoshop CS4 not autoloading scripts into menu

Hi all,
I've just done a fresh install of CS3 Suite and then CS4 right after. I have two HD's, one is meant for OS and Apps, the other - for data. I keep a folder called "Photoshop Files" in the data HD; that folder contains my actions, scripts, whatever. This is good for if/when I need to reinstall apps or even the OS.
After installation of the Adobe suites, I made symbolic links that point to each necessary folder. ex., "C:\Program Files (x86)\Adobe\Adobe Photoshop CS4\Presets\Actions\myScripts" points to "D:\Files\Photoshop Files\Scripts". Remember these are symbolic links, not just shortcuts.
Everything works OK in Photoshop CS3 - I can find the scripts in the File > Scripts menu. However in Photoshop CS4, I cannot see the scripts. Anyone have an idea of what's going wrong?

http://forums.adobe.com/message/1532697#1532697 :
Re: How much RAM can PS CS4e use in Mac OS 10.5.x?
The answer is more complicated than that, and the amount of RAM that Photoshop can directly access has indeed changed as of CS3. Elementary computing math. Both Panther and Tiger, under which Photoshop CS3 was developed and released, are 32-bit operating systems. The 232 limitation still holds for all 32-bit applications (minus overhead/application footprint 231). Because one bit is reserved, the calculation has to be 231, which works out to2147483648, and that's why up through CS2, the Photoshop limit was around 2 GB as it was for any other applications because of the limitation imposed by the 32-bit OS. In CS3, the Photoshop engineers devised a workaround to circumvent the limitations of the 32-bit OS to let it access about 3 GB. (There's some overhead and rounding off.) So, be thankful for the resourcefulness of the Adobe folks, rather than rant against the forces of nature and mathematics.

Photoshop cs4 Graphic Card Requirements!!

Hello Guyz!! I wanted to learn Photoshop CS4 on my Dell Precision 670 Intel Xeon 2.8 Ghz × 2.8 Ghz With 2Gb of Ram and Graphic Card Radeon X300/X550/X1050 Series of 128 MB n I am using Windows 7 Ultimate!! Now, I can't "Enable OpenGL Drawing" in Photoshop and I guess I will have to change my graphic card to help the cause!! Please Suggest a Graphic Card that should work well throughout my Photoshop Learning Process!! Thanks

LOL, there are 1000's of documents explaining it. You are way over thinking it.
32 bit OS can only handle 4 gigs worth of memory addresses. period. That's not saying all video ram is in use all the time, but that all video ram it is available at all times. In order for it to be available it needs to have an address so the OS can send data to it. That memory addressing is reserved at boot as a hardware requirement. In order to reserve the memory locations for hardware memory it has to use part of its 4 gig limited addressing and specify it as hardware. once its out of addresses... no more memory can BE addresed, its just that simple.
If windows reserves 1 gig of address space for hard ware, it can not address more then 3 gigs of RAM. It is that simple.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/929605/en-us
"If a computer has 4 gigabytes (GB) of random-access memory (RAM) installed, the system memory that is reported in the System Information dialog box in Windows Vista is less than you expect. "
Answer:
"This behavior is the expected result of certain hardware and software factors.
Various devices in a typical computer require memory-mapped access. This is known as memory-mapped I/O (MMIO). For the MMIO space to be available to 32-bit operating systems, the MMIO space must reside within the first 4 GB of address space.
For example, if you have a video card that has 256 MB of onboard memory, that memory must be mapped within the first 4 GB of address space. If 4 GB of system memory is already installed, part of that address space must be reserved by the graphics memory mapping. Graphics memory mapping overwrites a part of the system memory. These conditions reduce the total amount of system memory that is available to the operating system.
The reduction in available system memory depends on the devices that are installed in the computer. However, to avoid potential driver compatibility issues, the 32-bit versions of Windows Vista limit the total available memory to 3.12 GB. See the "More information" section for information about potential driver compatibility issues.
If a computer has many installed devices, the available memory may be reduced to 3 GB or less. However, the maximum memory available in 32-bit versions of Windows Vista is typically 3.12 GB."

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