Windows 7 Display Problems CS5

[Dave McKeen]

Haalllp!! I have been using Photoshop CS3 until recently upgrading to CS5. Things were about as normal as things can be with a PC until I installed CS5. Since then I have been experiencing display problems while in Photoshop. My system configuration is below my signature.

Artifacts began showing up as two small rectangles of pixels from something I had been working on a little earlier. Examples attached. Zooms (except for 'scrubby' zooms) have become jittery and jumpy. Draws with a large brush take what seems ten times as long as I've been accustomed to.

I updated the 8800GT display adapter driver to the latest, Version 197.45. I have been into Computer>Properties>Advanced>Visual Effects and unchecked all the boxes. The radio button "Adjust for best performance" is selected. In Display Properties>Settings>Advanced>Troubleshoot I lowered Hardware Acceleration two notches.

No improvement.

I purchased the Zotac GeForce 9800GT, installed it and updated the driver to Release 256 family 257.21_desktop_winxp_32bit_english_whql.exe. No improvement. Things got worse. After switching to the new GPU, panning/scrolling in ACDSee Photo Manager 10 became jerky and jumpy. Zooms in Photoshop CS5 seemed worse. Dragging a window is so jumpy it's unnerving. Resizing windows by dragging a corner now shows a dotted outline only, where before I could watch the window frame resize in real time.
I figured maybe it's something in the BIOS. The PQ5 is very overclockable, but I don't do overclocking. I left everything at default. That's a lot of things! I then tried a couple of adjustments in AI Tweaker in the BIOS. I changed "AI Overclock Tuner" from Auto to Manual and changed "Clock Skew" from Auto to Manual, but made no manual adjustments in either.

No improvement.

I've experimented with turning "Enable Open GL Drawing" on and off in Photoshop CS5 Preferences>Performance and don't see any difference. I am at a loss. I do tons of retouching in Photoshop and working with the display behaving like this is very fatiguing.

Any suggestions?

Thanks - Dave









ASUS P5Q Deluxe LGA775, P45/ICH10R
Intel Core 2 Quad Q9300 LGA775 (Stock heatsink)
Mushkin 4GB Ascent (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR2 1066 P/N 996619
Corsair CMPSU-750TX 750W PSU
ASUS EN8800GT/HTDP/512M GeForce 8800GT GPU == ORIGINAL GPU ==
Zotac 288-2N115-000ZT GeForce 9800GT 512MB DDR3 256B == NEW GPU ==
HDD (C) WD740ADFD SATA1 74GB HD 10K RPM 16MB for OS
HDD (D) Hitachi Deskstar 7K1000 SATA2 1Tb for Data
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Lite-On ATAPI iHAS124 A DVD±R DVD SATA DVD Drive
MS Windows XP Professional SP3 32 bit
Monitor NEC MultiSync LCD2190 UXi

 

[Dave McKeen]

TorrentG, Yes, I installed the latest update for the plugin that's crashing Photoshop. And i do have Open GL turned on in Photoshop CS5. Love that "scrubby zoom"!

zvit, the plugin is Portraiture by Imagenomic. Cannot be without it!

I believe my system is hosed. Also Photoshop CS5 may not be optimized for Windows XP. (Duh?) Instead of further troubleshooting I'm going to concentrate on bringing my Windows 7 64-bit on line. This is the system on which I had to reinstall Windows. However I have been working with Photoshop CS5 on it (with the plugin) and it appears to be solid. If I run into problems I'll start a new thread.

Thanks VERY MUCH for the input!

- Dave

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ASUS P7P55 Deluxe
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Corsair CMX8GX3M4A1600C9 (4 stiicks x 2GB)
ZOTAC ZT-98GES3M-FSL GeForce 9800 GT 512MB 256-bit GDDR3 PCI Express 2.0 x16
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CF Reader FireWire Sandisk Extreme Pro ExpressCard Adapter
CF Card Sandisk Extreme IV 4GB 45MB/s UDMA
Monitor NEC LCD2190 UXi LCD 'twist' tech.
Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit