CS2 on vista...

[Fish]

man.
i bought a new laptop yesterday.
dell inspiron 1501 - vista home premium, 1 gb ram, ati 256mb vid ram, 250 gig hd, etc etc.

pretty basic.

i have cs2 on my desktop. it seems to run realy slow. like very slow, it lags and freezes occassionally. i mean wtff ??


wat's going onnn !!!


i should've bought a phucking macbook pro....

[JamesB]

do a search, I think there was some patch or something needed to make it work . it was discussed here on the forum

James

[Michael Lyons]

not enough memory?

[jhom]

I'm using an Inspiron 640m which I believe is a similar machine. I haven't had any particular problems with Vista and CS2. However, my Neat Image plug-in causes an initial error dialog but clears immediately and then runs fine.

[Breezy]

elements 3 isn't working properly for me with Vista either :(

[dbphotos]

You will definitely need at least 2GB RAM for CS3 and I noticed a difference even with CS2. If you add another GB I bet you'll see a big difference. It is a memory hog.

[darktiger]

CS2 works fine on both of my laptops. One has 1GB and the other have 2GB. Both running vista ultimate.

[bcskeens]

I just bought a laptop as well that has the Core 2 Duo processor 2 gig of RAM and Windows Vista Premium. I found that with CS2 that it processed JPEG's extremely fast, but it would not even open up the RAW files. I decided to purchase windows XP Pro X64, which is the 64 bit version of XP Pro.

Here is the site that I purchased XP Pro X64 Full Version for $67.00 shipped from: www.ebuszone.com
However, I just went there and they do not have it listed on there site, they may have sold out and not restocked.

I do know that zipzoomfly.com has XP Pro X64 here is the link:
http://www.zipzoomfly.com/jsp/Produc...uctCode=604652

However, it is 139.99 there.

CS3 is suppose to work with vista if you just want to hold out and get CS3 and keep using Vista.

[AndrewCCM]

Vista by itself could actually benefit from more than 1GB of RAM.. But throw PS on top of that.. I would say 2GB would be the minimum I would personally run. I am still using a P4-3Ghz XP Pro with 3GB RAM and it runs CS2 exceptionally well. Much faster than my dual processor G5 with 3GB RAM.

[Fish]

ok nvm guys.

i found out this:

you have to run cs2 as administrator.

once i did that. BOOM. works flawlessly. nothing wrong with the specs. works great

i was wrong about vista and my laptop. they work great now i'm satisfied.