PS CS4 after the patch...problems remain....

Question

Some Months ago, Photoshop CS4 was useless for me due to many problems that occured on my system (and as far as i can see, many other user's systems).
Meanwhile i installed the Patch to Version 11.0.1 and updated to new NVIDIA-driver Version 182.03.
I gave PS CS4 another try and realized, that some of the problems are gone. The OpenGL Features stay activated, rotating and smooth zooming are available and work fast and stable, graphic glitches and wrong menu-drawing are gone. That is most of the time...
Some problems remain:
- My long trusted wacom driver Version 493-3 (the only driver i had no problems with) does not grant me pressure-sensitivity in Photoshop CS4. It works well with CS3, but in CS4 theres no pressure at all. So switched to ne newest driver version. But even the newest Wacom-Driver does not work properly. If I close photoshop and reopen it, some pressure sensitivity of the brushes is gone. Sometimes ALL pressure sensitive functions are gone. Sometimes it helps reloading my brushes, sometimes this has no effect at all. Driver Version is 610-6 in combination with an Intuos3 Tablet.
- I have many cases where Photoshop just disappeared. It closed without warning or error-message.
- the OpenGL Features STILL deactivate out of nowhere. This happens mostly with layer-intensive documents and in combination with taskswitches. I only realise this when zooming becomes jumpy and the smoothness is suddenly gone. Then the rotate feature is greyed out. Strange thing is, all openGL features are still marked as active in the preferences. There's no warning or error message, the features simply vanished for this particular document. (It stays active for other open documents at the same time)
I am completely helpless here. For me it is AGAIN back to CS3. Working with Photoshop CS4 is really not possible with the above mentioned things happening all the time.
I use the most recent drivers available. My system is still fresh and nothing of this ever happened with Photoshop CS3.

Answer 1

I also still have many OpenGL problems (Geforce 8600GT/512MB latest driver, Intel Q6600, Vista 32 Ultimate, PS CS 11.01)
- OGL sometimes just stops working without any message (like Pickman said)
- 66,66% view eats up about 60% CPU usage (just for viewing the picture, nothing else)
- GPU accelerated HDR view produces strong shadow banding
- when drawing a path, the hand tool via spacebar is sometimes not available and sometimes it is, but flick-panning is not working
- when in 66,66% view sometimes tiles of the image only show a flickering checkerboard (again, I`m not moving the image)
-UV-scaling of textures does not work with raytracing (I can definately reproduce this again and again)
- zoom tool is sometimes not working as it should and only resetting preferences helps (imagine a huge skyscraper (great hight, small width). YOu set your zooming rectangle exactely around the edges of the skyscaper and PS of course should zoom in so that the whole building can be seen. But instead it zooms in that the width of the building fills the entire screen. Resetting prferences helps.....for some days. Then it starts again)
- When making changes to a 3D model it happens from time to time that if you go back one step in the history panel the whole 3D model dissapears! Go forward one step again and it reappears.
And then this strange behaviour:
-Create a new document
-create a new layer
-go to "3D-new form from layer" (winebottle for example)
-zoom to 50%
-go to the 3D panel and change surrounding light or diffuse light -while having the color picker of one of those dialogs open (in order to change light color) change zoom view to 66%.
Then the whole 3D model disappears! Zoom to 50% and it`s back again!
I can reproduce this every time!
I really love those GPU features and they were one of the reasons for me to upgrade, but there are still bugs all over the place. I worked very much with 3D in the last couple of days and there really are annoying bugs every couple of minutes.
All in all, PS CS4 11.01 is MUCH better than 11.0, but still very buggy.