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Aug 16, 2009
performance of my pc in Photoshop CS4 (nor in Lightroom 2.4 or Photoshop Elements 7) and I suspect that the weakest point is the graphics card. So I ask for advise to get a high performance graphics card. In addition to pictures I do (or wish to to) full HD video with my Canon 5D MkII. My current setup is (2 years old): Asus P5K motherboard with P35 chipset, Q6600 CPU, 2 Samsung SP T166 500GB harddrives and 2 Samsyng SP F1 750GB harddrives both sets in RAID 0 (striped) and the sets have plenty of free space, 8 GB DDR2 RAM, Asus EN8600GT graphics card with 256MB RAM and a Dell 3007WFP display running 2560 x 1600 resolution. When I open more than 4 pictures in Photoshop I get the message: "With the current settings, up to 4 OpenGL documents can be shown at a time. ... This limit depends on the screen resolution, and the RAM available from the graphics card. ..."When I work in Photoshop there are always plenty available RAM and the CPU are not usually on heavy load, and the disk activity is usually low. Therefore I belive that the bottleneck in my system is the graphics card. Any thoughts on this?What graphics card should I buy that will take the workload and my workflow (many pictures at the time and usually in RAW) without me having to wait on the screen to update?Of course I would like to have the best price/performance ratio,
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Feb 12, 2009
Can anyone recommend any good reading material for CS4? I'm not too keen on Scott Kelby (bit too cookbook like although he's a friendly type of guy :-)), nor Martin English (bit too much in depth for me personally).
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Feb 27, 2013
I shoot photos, do Web design and some print design. I have the Spyder 3 Elite system and I'm a bit mystified as to the best color profile settings for Photoshop.Many Web design people recommend staying in
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RGB: sRGB, however I've seen photographers recommend a using....
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May 17, 2012
When I try to use the Oil Paint filter tool I receive an error claiming that an "uknown graphics processor error" had occured. I then checked under my preferences and Photoshop is not using the correct graphics card. Is there a way for me to fix this problem so that I can use photoshop? I have a switchable radeon graphics card in my computer and use catalyst control center to manage it.
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Adobe Photoshop Version: 13.0 (13.0 20120315.r.428 2012/03/15:21:00:00) x64
Operating System: Windows 7 64-bit
Version: 6.1 Service Pack 1
System architecture: Intel CPU Family:6, Model:10, Stepping:7 with MMX, SSE Integer, SSE FP, SSE2, SSE3, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, HyperThreading
Physical processor count: 4
Logical processor count: 8
Processor speed: 2195 MHz
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  Adaptive Wide Angle 13.0
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  Angled Strokes 13.0
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Apr 6, 2003
what is the most adequate graphics card to run Photoshop 7.0 on a daily basis?
I am currently looking to purchase a new computer and I am considering my options.
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Nov 21, 2008
I will be adding a graphics card to my Vista 64 machine which currently has integrated graphics. I normally don't care about 3D performance, so I was looking at the Radeon HD 4550. Please let me know what I should look for in a card if my primary objective is to (1) enable movie playing (HD and blu ray) and (2) speed up Photoshop. The machine has one x16 PCI slot and two x1 slots (it's a Dell Studio).
Current specs are:
Intel Q9400 quad core
8GB RAM (this is the max for the motherboard)
750GB SATA drive
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Jun 19, 2013
I'm working on a graphic image, but I'm using a bit of photography in it. My problem is that the .jpg I get from the Save as, is not large enough. If I had to start all over, should I create a larger document or is it alright to enlarge the image size and the graphical element itself?
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Apr 11, 2013
NVDIA GeForce 6150SE nForce 430. Just updated the driver from NVDIA. When I try to do much of anything (like oil painting) it locks up and says it needs to shut down because the GPU isn't supported. Compaq Presario CG5300F 2G ram 320G HD AMD Sempron LE-1300 2.3 64 bit
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Mar 7, 2013
I am replacing my existing 512MB GeForce 9800 GTX+ is because Photoshops Graphics accelerated features are really unstable with it. They either stop working or worse make Photoshop crash. Processing photos is the main use, I don't use it for gaming or anything.
Operating System
Microsoft Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit SP1
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Aug 26, 2012
Photoshop CS6 makes extensive use of graphic card features such as OpenGL and OpenCL. Prices of graphic cards that have those features range from well under $100 to over $4000 for top of the line Pro cards.If your system is only used for PS then there's no need to invest in features you don't need, such as those needed by video gamers. But you do want the best graphics card performance that PS can make use of.
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Graphics cards to determine at what point additional graphics performance no longer improves PS performance? For example, does the card's clock speed effect PS performance? Does 2G of graphics card RAM offer any improvement over 1G (or 512MB)?
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Apr 18, 2012
I am running Photoshop CS5 Extended and I am currently trying the Beta of CS6. I am currently using my on board graphics card and whilst on the whole have been happy I realize that I am not using the system to the fullest. I am using a PC with a PCI-e slot. What sort of (low budget I am afraid) graphics card should I be looking for.
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Oct 21, 2008
If you had a three year old Nvidia Geforce 6600 video card, would you upgrade and to what? Strictly for PSCS4, no video, no gaming.
I know I need to download driver updates, but I wondered if more of an upgrade would be indicated.
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Feb 15, 2008
With my upcoming upgrades, which video card would you recommend?
Won't be doing any gaming, just the odd streaming or instructional video and PSCS3, and no 3-D graphics.
Specifically, is there any reason to go with up to 1 gig?
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Jun 4, 2009
 Frankly, the tech specs of individual cards leave my head in a spin and I'm not sure where else to go. I've tried a couple of sales lines but they haven't left me feeling confident. I want a fairly high-end card but I don't do video and gaming.
I have run two monitors from a AT! Radeon X800 Pro (I think I got the numbers right) which doesn't permit me to color profile two monitors. Consequently, my main monitor (Lacie Electron Blue) but the other one is always way off. It gets even more alarming if the image on the cheapo monitor looks better than the profiled monitor.
 It does make proofing difficult if I have the thumbnail on the cheapo and a larger image on the profiled monitor especially if you have more than one image that are close in content. I use an Eye 1 device to profile and I would just like to be able to profile both monitors with that device in an easy way.
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Sep 25, 2006
IBM says that a T2500 processor with a mg of RAM and an intel graphics media accelerator will be fine.
Would a dedicated 128 MB AI Mobility Radeon X1400 provide a noticeable increase in speed?
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Aug 6, 2012
I currently use Photoshop CS5 and Lightroom 4.1. I am in the process of having a new computer built just for editing my photography. The board will be an ASUS P9X79 with an intel Core i7-3820 and 16 GB memory. The technician would like a recommendation of the best graphics card for editing still images.
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All of my work is done in RAW from a 5D MII. 21 megapixel.
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Oct 5, 2012
I have an earlier 2008 MacPro with a Radeon HD 2600 XT Card. Adobe says it's supported but all 3D options are grayed out. The menu is grayed out and open GL is grayed.
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Do I need a new card? If so, what cards are Mac users using for good 3D?
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May 7, 2012
I just upgraded to Photoshop CS6. In anticipation of this new version, I upgraded to a new graphics card, ATI Radeon HD 5770, in my first slot. I have my main monitor, which is a Cintiq 21UX, plugged into that card. I still have two older graphics cards, both NVIDIA GeForce 7300 GTs, in slots #2 and 4.Â
I have two Apple monitors connected to the card in slot #4. When I first opened the program I received a message stating "Photoshop detected graphics hardware that is not officially supported". I checked under Preferences-Performance and it is only detecting my NVIDIA GeForce 7300 GT and the "Use Graphics Processor" box is checked.Â
The new Radeon graphics card is not detected. I checked the list of Adobe tested GPUs and, if I read it correctly, it is listed as one of the approved cards. I'm working on a 2 x 3 GHz Dual-Core Intel Xeon Mac running OS Lion version 10.7.3.Â
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Jun 25, 2013
I'm a Creative Cloud user and recently downloaded the new Photoshop CC. I tried to open an existing file and got the following error message, "3D features require a minimum of 512MB of vRAM. Photoshop has detected less than that on your system. Updating the driver of your graphics card may resolve the issue."
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While I'm fairly proficient in Photoshop I'll admit that I'm a bit lost when it comes to my computer. whether I actually need a new graphics card or perhaps my settings are wrong? Here is some information about my computer:
Mac Pro
Processor 2 x 2.8 GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon
Memory 20 GB 667 MHz DDR2 FB-DIMM
Graphics ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT 256 MB
Software Mac OS X Lion 10.7.5 (11G63b)
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Jul 29, 2009
my computer randomly blue screened and has done a few times since. All error codes and recent activity suggested a faulty driver recently installed. The newest thing i have installed was my Intuos 4 new drivers, but i found that removing them made no difference. Looking through my windows event log files, i found that my graphics card drivers had ran into some erros not long ago, so i updated my drivers (NVidia 9800GT (512MB vm)). I had a blue screen today since updating them, directly reffering to my graphics tablet drivers again, but this time the new ones.Also, i have noticed that explorer seems slower now, and programs close fast-ish still, but they close from top to bottom as if something crashed instead, and fourced them to close. I also am getting much more distortion on my desktop than usual, such as remains of windows previously open, or the dashed box that shows when you click and drag on the desktop staying there. A simple refresh gets rid of it, but i don't know if it is linked.
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Jan 21, 2011
I just finished building my first "serious" (i.e., with lots of clips, titles, sound track, etc.) video for YouTube. It runs about 7 minutes.
I used Video Studio 8 to develop the project. I tried rendering it in the .avi format with no compression, and ended up with something that runs slowly and has the audio badly out of synch. The file size, of course, is huge.
What format and settings are recommended for a project that is going to be put on YouTube? (I would like to use 640 x 480 if possible. That's the size used to build the project).
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Jul 26, 2013
My graphics card is dying. To be exact, the fan on my old Radeon 4650 card is making strange noises from time to time and when it does, the temperature on the card goes up. It is time for a replacement.
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After looking at the various cards, I settled on the Sapphire 100356OCL Radeon HD 7790 OC 1GB DDR5 PCI-Express Video Card seen here:[URL]...\
Beside normal display tasks, I have two programs that use Open CL on the graphics card - Photoshop CS5 and WinZip. any Radeon 7790 based card with Photoshop CS5? If so, have you encountered any difficulties with Open CL activated in CS5?
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Apr 26, 2013
I'm having a lot of glitchy problems with Photoshop CS6. I believe it's because of the graphics card. The image keeps disappearing and reappearing as I make adjustments, the Waccom table controls (for sizing brushes) suddenly stops working. When I touch the Waccom pen to tablet the cursor turns into a spinning tarus. I reboot, and it's OK for a little while, then starts acting up again. I've changed the Graphics Processor Settings from Advanced, to Normal, to Basic. Same problem no matter what.
I'm running on Windows 8. Intel i5 processors. The program is loaded on an SSD drive. The scratch disk is 3 TB so it shouldn't be a memory/space issue. The card driver is up to date.
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Jun 25, 2012
I've recently upgraded my Mac Pro's graphics card from an Asus 256MB 8400GS to a 1GB NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470. Everything seems to work fine in CS6 suite apart from a weird anomaly where, dragging the 'Depth of Field' slider on a Photoshop 3D layer, Photoshop crashes. All of the other 3D controls appear to work fine, just the 'Depth of Field' causes the crash.
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I've tried disabling 'Open CL' and using the lowest settings, but I still get the crash. When I reinstalled the less powerful Asus card, I didn't get a crash and could use the slider fine. Would this be an NVIDIA driver issue, or Adobe bug with NVIDIA GTX cards?
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Aug 13, 2012
Running a Intel Mac on 10.74 - CS6
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I have two video cards running three Dell Monitors.
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The ATI 5770 (runs the 24") is on the 16 lane PCI slot and the older Nvidea 8800 GT (running two Dell 19") is on the 8 lane slot.
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But photoshop chooses the slower card on the slower lane.
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Jun 1, 2012
I just got the 64 bit version of CS5 after using the 32 bit version, and at first the OpenGL stuff was working, but then all of a sudden it stopped. The 32 bit version recognizes my graphics card and lets me use OpenGL, but the 64 bit version doesn't.
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I have Windows 7 64 bit and an Intel HD Graphics Family
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Mar 6, 2012
My Radeon 6570 is recognized in the performance menu and "advanced" is selected but when I try to use the "rotate view tool" I get an error telling me "Could not complete your request because it only works with OpenGL enabled document windows."
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Driver Package Version - 8.84-110309a-116134C-Asus
Open GL - Version 6.14.10.10664
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Jun 21, 2012
I have NVIDIA GeForce 520 which does support open CL and is officially tested by Adobe.I have the most updated driver installed from Nvidia.
I have win 7 64bit
I use Photoshop CS6 64bit
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and still in preferences->performance->advanced settings I see "Use OpenCL" grayed out.
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Sep 17, 2012
I have been experiencing constant crashes to the desktop using a fresh install of CS6 while attempting to use the text tool.
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My other problem is that photoshop does not seem to detect my graphics card, it says "Photoshop has detected an error in your display driver" and I cannot access any of the GPU options.
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I have updated to the latest version of Photoshop. I have the latest drivers for my graphics card.
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7950
8gb
1680x1050 + 1024x768
Windows 7 64bit
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Apr 19, 2013
how can I achieve the best of my graphics card. I have a 6490M AMD Radeon, an i3 Sandy Bridge Processor at 2.2GHZ and 8GB of RAM. I am not looking for making Photoshop work the fastest possible. I know what computer I am working with. What I need are the best settings for my graphics card (anti-aliasing, vertical sync etc.) all those settings that you can change from Quality to Performance. How do they influence Photoshop ?
I would also like to know what are the best settings for Photoshop Preferences. Most of my work circles around Web Design (files with many layers and low resolutions).
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Feb 26, 2013
I have never had anything go wrong before, so I do not know what to do about this, but I cannot do any 3D work. I was hoping to learn new skills. I am working on a Mac pro which is about five years old. Do I need to upgarde this card, download something for it? Buy anew card?
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