Photoshop cs4 photomerge causes application crash

Question

When I try to use the photomerge tool from photoshop cs4, under file->automate->photomerge, before the box appears which allows you to select the photos to use, an alert box appears saying that photoshop has stopped working, and then the application force closes. 
I tried uninstalling, and then using the CC cleaner tool, then reinstalling, but I still have the same problem. 
I installed it on a windows 8.1 x86-64 machine with 16GB ram.  Both the 32 bit and 64 bit photoshop applications have the same failure.
Has anyone else experienced this issue?  I haven't been able to find anyone else who has this issue.

Answer 1

I can't find the new thread, and I assume there is no solution yet, so I'm replying here...
I can say that I have an Alienware 18 with switchable graphics - low power, built-in Intel HD-4600, or twin nVidia 770M cards - and when running in the Intel graphics mode, photomerge works every time, but recently (AFAIK) when running the nVidia graphics mode (in single mode at least - I will try dual/SLI later), I can say photomerge crashes every time.
I'm fairly sure my PC used to to do photomerge running in nVidia mode, so it maybe the latest, or recent driver, causing the problem; I'm running drivers contained in "340.52-notebook-win8-win7-64bit-international-whql.exe" on windows 8.1 64-bit.
My suggestion therefore is to try older drivers with nVidia cards, at least to get some data about what works/doesn't work and report it to nVidia. Even though the root cause could be in Abode software (nVidia may have tightened up on some issue that conceivably manifests an Abode bug), I'd bet money Abode no longer care about supporting you if, like me, you are running old CS4, paid for at great cost - they will likely just say buy an upgrade to the latest s/w (which may or may not work)!
Cheers
Steve