Photoshop CS6 bizarre behavior in Win8

Question

Don't yam that the OS is a beta: it isn't. CS6 worked stably with the consumer preview version but seems unusable with what will be the final version of Win8 (like possibly October).
Win8 has its issuess but at least it isn't the senile Mac OSancient.
I don't want to hear about video drivers: Adobe knows what the driver models are for Nvidia and ATI and it is Adobe's problem to create a stable product that conforms to the known parameters of what are mature driver platforms. I have several versions of ATI drivers archived and none of them make any difference.
I have the same issues regardless of the settings for GPU acceleration or whether the GPU is used at all, in both 32 and 64 bit versions.
Changing the GPU settings, closing and reopening the program does nothing.
I experience constant flickering in the desktop background color from blank (checkerbox) to black when implementing essentially any image manipulation. I can find no work-around for this.
The biggest issue is that it is nearly impossible to use the perspective crop tool as the image completely goes black when the mouse button is released. There is a frustrating work-around: If without moving the mouse I left click again the image reappears. Move the crop line and release the mouse button the image disappears. Click again on the left mouse button and move a few pixels and the image reappears.
Try it, you'll hate it.

Answer 1

http://www.slimwareutilities.com/slimdrivers.php
Laptop makers often do not update drivers because it may cause them support issues even though the parts in their machines are all generic, including any ATI mobile video card. Intel in particular updates chipset drivers that most laptop users are unaware of and which generally enhance performance. This utility will scan your laptop and point you to updated drivers. If you are uncertain about installing that driver create a restore point before installing and you can revert to wherever you were easily via safe mode. Remember these are generic drivers for the generic parts in your machine regardless of whose label is on the box. Mobile video drivers are not updated as frequently as desktop drivers and it is a sad fact that ATI is less aggressive than Nvidia in updating video drivers in general and Adobe, as this long thread demonstrates, is entirely indifferent to the needs of its customers as it has no competitors for Photoshop.