Creative Software
 Photoshop

You should be able to get refunded without a reason but I don’t know exact laws in your country. But to my knowledge, 30 days after purchasing is the deadline. 14 days preffered.

This is exactly an example why to use trail version before buying and why are trial versions important.

Adobe always release trial versions weeks after their products are launched unfortunately, it is a serious pain in the ass. I won’t be purchasing any of the new CS4 apps until I have tried them first.

As far as I can see, I am not the only person in the world with this problem. The problem only seems to be present on Windows systems, but the brand of GFX does not seem to have an impact - except that older cards have a greater succes ratio. Adobe does not acknowledge this as being their fault, but blame the GFX vendors such as Nvidia or ATI. Of course it isn’t the software team at Adobe who has implemented GPU utilization poorly - it has to be bad driver programming…

I contacted Adobe and they do have a 30 day return policy. I just have to ship the package back to the UK.

Here are some examples of other people having troubles:
http://www.adobeforums.com/webx/.59b6d9d3
http://www.adobeforums.com/webx/.59b6d78b

Something on your system is definitely messing up Photoshop, since your hardware specs are fine.

As it turns out, the shipping costs for shipments from DK to the UK is almost 10% of the package cost (I have the student version), so I’m just gonna keep the damn thing.

Why not try to reinstall your entire OS (make a ghost image of your current installation), and see if it makes any difference? I wouldn’t give up that easily. I’m pretty sure it’s a software conflict.

I’m pretty sure it is too, but when I purchased the PC from Dell, I did not get an OS DVD with it. So right now I don’t have anything to install on it if I do a clean start…

I do have a XP Pro OS lying around somewhere, but I would hate to use that license just for trying out a clean install. I’m kinda saving it for my planned purchase of the new Macbook, as I plan to run BootCamp on it.

Yakken: On HP notebooks, it should be the way that there’s a separate harddrive for clean instalation to boot if you have formatted your C drive. The same should be for every OEM Windows for notebook/PC.

Thanks for your info about the software my friend.

I just got my upgrade (CS4) and it is a bit slow but I only notice it really when I have multiple things opened up at once. Then again, I just reformatted to.

haha, I am sticking with CS3, not becuse of this, but becuase it has everything I need.

*edit
why would you order from the UK? Things are pretty expensive here despite our pound tumbling in the currency markets considerably in the last few weeks.

I have upgraded to CS4 pretty much across the range now ( Flash, Photoshop, After Effects, etc ) and I’m not having any speed issues with them, they run the same as the CS3 versions on my machine ( Windows XP SP2 - 3 GHz CPU - 1 GB RAM ).

The boot-up times are incredibly lengthy though and I’m really not keen on the GUI Adobe have adopted, it still seems as unstable as the CS3 GUI. Why don’t they just stick with the native operating system GUI, surely that would be much quicker and more stable? I don’t care if it means losing the fancy panel docking, that causes half the problems anyway.

i actually like the fancy docking panels…

i opted for CS4 for OSX as opposed to using it on Windows. hopefully i won’t run into as many lag issues as others have noted.

it works far better on OSX than windows.