Has anyone had issues with Photoshop CS4 being sluggish? I'm working on a pretty high end Alienware core 2 duo machine with XP and 4 gigs of ram (I know XP doesn't use all of it). CS3 was nice and zippy. CS4however, is sluggish in all manners, from simply moving a window (as you drag the window its very jerky), to moving a selection with nudge on a small 1000x1000 pixel image. Are there any options for speeding it up? I had 2 GBytes of ram available for it and one would think not much would be needed for a 1000x1000 image. Painting brush strokes is so slow, the system lags my strokes by so much that feedback is poor.
I got so frustrated trying to prepare a simple graphic for a publication that I went back to CS3.
On my laptop, I have to wait seconds for things to happen, but didn't with CS3.
The install of CS3 was 2004 files and 296 MBytes, and CS4 3953 files, 542 MBytes. I guess it's nice that there is more stuff, but not at the cost of poor response.
Roger







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