Hello!, I'm planning to move to 64bits because my needs for more RAM... Could you tell me how is the performance of photoshop CS4 under W7 compared to Windows XP?...
My system is a i7 920 + 3gb of ram (I will upgrade to 6 Gb)
Best regards!
It's in one word excellent.
Cannot compare to other OS's though, I only ran it at Win7 64bit.
Moving to 6gb might not make it faster, but you could open bigger and/or more photos, especially if you plan to edit RAW files.
If you have a good graphicscard you can enabled hardware, but to be honest I didn't notice any difference, and even found it to be a bit unstable with it enabled.
If you still have to buy Photoshop, I would go for the 64bit version, to profit most from your 64bit OS.
Greetz and good luck
The 64Bit version of Photoshop CS4 took approximately 2.1 seconds to start up on my E6600 with 8GB DDR2. Slightly less than that on my new Q9550, but then I need to do a fresh install to RTM anyway, so that probably explains why it hasn't speeded up as much as I expected.
@squonksc:
My CS4 Master Collection did a system profile at install, and then installed both the 32-bit and 64-bit versions of Photoshop.
The startup time of a program is elementary, especially when we are talking in terms of 2 or 3 seconds.
The important aspect of a photo editor's performance, is how fast it loads your batch of pictures, how fast it calculates your filters and effects and such, and how many layers you can apply before it becomes sluggish.
Personally, I haven't reached any limit yet with CS4 64bit, and I am kind of a power user when it comes to editing.
Hope this was helpful.
Greetz
Upgrade to the 6 gigs asap. I'm running the same setup i7 920 with 3 gigs, i get this thing stuttering when i get to my regular workload.
I work with 300-800 meg psds all day.
it's a good thing ram is so cheap! go for it, and enjoy your 'shopping!
And that's a good thing.
This might be very interesting for you.
Optimize performance of Photoshop CS4 on Windows XP and Vista
and this
What’s it Going to Take to Run Photoshop CS4? A Real World Guide to the Hardware You’ll Need > RAM
good luck
Running x64 with two gigs of RAM and an average GPU. Photoshop x64 running smoothly and without problems.
Kari
Last edited by Kari; 06 Aug 2009 at 11:30. Reason: Was wrong. I have 4 gigs.
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