Photoshop CS6 freezes in Windows 8

i run windows 8 and photoshop cs6 on two different computers. one computer runs it fine but on the other computer Photoshop freezes whenever I try to sav an image. Please Help

I can only tell you this:  I have Photoshop fully updated to 13.0.1 and it works just fine in Windows 8.  But I don't have the full Creative Suite as you do.
I really suspect there's something else gone wrong on your particular system, perhaps having to do with the display driver or something in particular you installed coincident with the installation of the Adobe updates.
On a hunch, does Photoshop get any better behaved if you do the following?
1.  Go into Edit - Preferences - Performance.
2.  Uncheck [  ] Use Graphics Processor.
3.  OK out, then close and restart Photoshop.
I mention this because there are some known display driver problems with Windows 8, especially with ATI video cards/interfaces.
Best of luck in getting to the bottom of this.
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