CS4 3d problem

[Jharts77]

I've had CS4 for about 6ish months now, and for quite awhile everything worked fine, then not too long ago, the 3d options stopped working. I've tried adjusting the amount of ram it can use, and switching between RGB 8, 16 and 32 bit. I know that my graphics card is compatible, because I've used the 3d before, but I just can't get it to work anymore.

Anyone else have a similar problem? I looked at the adobe forums for quite awhile earlier and couldn't find anything

[AndrewCCM]

What OS?

I ran into this problem running XP 64bit.

[Jharts77]

Xp 32.

[Rson]

Turn off the OpenGL and see if that makes a difference.

GPU utilization is still new to Adobe. Can I get your system specs? Ram, processor, Scratch, etc?

[Jharts77]

Operating System: Windows XP 32-bit
Physical processor count: 1
Processor speed: 1800 MHz
Video Card: ATI RADEON XPRESS 200M Series
Video Mode: 1024 x 768 x 4294967296 colors
Video Card Driver: ati2dvag.dll
Driver Version: 6.14.10.6587
Built-in memory: 958 MB
Free memory: 175 MB
Memory available to Photoshop: 665 MB
Memory used by Photoshop: 70 %
Scratch volume(s):
C:\, 149.0G, 65.5G free

And openGL is off, so it isn't that.

[Rson]

Is that a laptop? The 200m is a AMD Notebook chipset and not a video card.

You do not have a video card, you have onboard video that is shared from your ram pool of 1gb. So if you have 1gb of ram, 128-256 goes to video, another 512 goes to running windows, that leaves 256-348 for PS. you are at the BARE minimum to run CS4

* OS Required Microsoft Windows XP SP2 or later , Microsoft Windows Vista Business SP1 , Microsoft Windows Vista Ultimate SP1 , Microsoft Windows Vista Enterprise SP1 , Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium SP1
* Software Requirements QuickTime 7.2 or later
* Min Processor Type 1.8 GHz or faster (Windows) , Intel Multicore - 1.8 GHz , PowerPC G5 (Mac)
* Peripheral / Interface Devices DVD-ROM , XGA monitor , Internet connection , OpenGL compatible graphics card
* System Requirements Details Microsoft Windows Vista / XP - RAM 512 MB - HD 1 GB




SO, my guess is that you don't have enough horsepower to render 3d in CS4.

[Jharts77]

That makes sense, I just don't understand why it would have run a couple months ago, but then stopped.