[FauxCaster]

I've been happy with Photoshop 7, but I noticed there is a 30-day demo of CS, so I tried it. I've got a g5 2ghz, ati 128mb 9800, 4gb ram and 2 250gb drives (one is a dedicated scratch disk).

The first really annoying thing I noticed about CS is there are very noticable pauses when a large document goes blank (gray checkerboard) to update. Sometimes just switching tools causes a redraw.

I've got 90% ram allocated (though PS only sees 2gb of my 4). So "90%" is really less than 50%. It will still do this with no other apps running.

This is a complete deal breaker. If there is no solution to these annoying redraws, I certainly won't be moving to CS.

Anyone else with plenty of horsepower having petty redraw problems with CS? Anyone found a solution?

I've got 29 days left on the trial.

[MacMan4000]

Originally posted by FauxCaster:
I've been happy with Photoshop 7, but I noticed there is a 30-day demo of CS, so I tried it. I've got a g5 2ghz, ati 128mb 9800, 4gb ram and 2 250gb drives (one is a dedicated scratch disk).

The first really annoying thing I noticed about CS is there are very noticable pauses when a large document goes blank (gray checkerboard) to update. Sometimes just switching tools causes a redraw.

I've got 90% ram allocated (though PS only sees 2gb of my 4). So "90%" is really less than 50%. It will still do this with no other apps running.

This is a complete deal breaker. If there is no solution to these annoying redraws, I certainly won't be moving to CS.

Anyone else with plenty of horsepower having petty redraw problems with CS? Anyone found a solution?

I've got 29 days left on the trial.

I havn't noticed it on my 1ghz eMac with 640mb of ram and a 60 gb hard drive. (not a very fast computer compaired to a g5) Seems to run fine for me. The only delay like that I have noticed was when applying a filter to a massive image. Never had it do that because of switching a tool.

Just the other day I was working onn a 27.5mb photoshop file that is 11 x 17 at 300 ppi and has 41 layers. The only time i noticed a redraw like that was when i made 8 layers visable. it cause all the layers to disappear for a second and redraw.

It dosen't really bother me... but that might be because I am used to useing slow computers at school.

[chris v]

Check at the Adobe Forums. They're pretty active, and people are generally helpful and freindly, so long as you don't go posting thead titles like "OMG Photoshop is teh SUXX0RZ!! F/U ADOBE!!11!!" (for example) Belive it or not, people do.