Photoshop CS4 System Requirements

[Bill W]

Greetings,

I note that Adobe lists the processor requirements for Photoshop CS4 (Mac) to be PowerePC G5 or multicore Intel. Is anyone running CS4 on a "lesser" system, such as a G4?

Thanks.

-Bill-

 

[almaink]

I have it installed on a backup system Quicksilver Dual G4 running Tiger here at work. It's no speed demon, but it runs...

 

[WharfRat]

I have it installed on a backup system Quicksilver Dual G4 running Tiger here at work. It's no speed demon, but it runs...

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That is something ...
since the minimum requirements are supposed to be G5 or Intel
I tried to install CS4 on my G4 Powerbook
and it did not give me a chance
Is your Photoshop CS4 a Photoshop virgin install or PS upgrade only
and not the suite?

MSD

 

[jonkovach]

I have it installed on a PowerPC G5... It bogs down my entire computer when it's open and not even doing anything. Not sure if that is normal, but if it is, I don't know if I'd WANT to run it on anything lesser than a G5...

 

[WharfRat]

It bogs down my entire computer when it's open and not even doing anything. Not sure if that is normal, but if it is, I don't know if I'd WANT to run it on anything lesser than a G5...
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After this thread began -
I wiped my old Powerbook G4
and reloaded a new copy of Leopard.
The entire CS4 suite runs fine.
Photoshop is actually pretty snappy (with large RAW files).
Dreamweaver is great.
InDy and Illy are a bit poky getting going
but ... once running zip right along.
Acrobat 9 is fine - with PitStop

MSD

 

[Eddie3000]

I have it installed on a PowerPC G5... It bogs down my entire computer when it's open and not even doing anything. Not sure if that is normal, but if it is, I don't know if I'd WANT to run it on anything lesser than a G5...

Running it on a G5 2Ghz Dual. Runs better (quicker, launches faster) than CS3. Weird!!

 

[eyetech]

I have it installed on a backup system Quicksilver Dual G4 running Tiger here at work. It's no speed demon, but it runs...

Ditto. We have 2 x G4 1.25mhz DP mirror door, 2gb ram (that's as much as they'll take), 2 drives. It ain't G5 quick but it ain't a slouch

Also we have a HP 2.80ghz P4 with 1.5gb ram as our Epson 7800 print server also with CS4 and it runs ok on that - not as quick as the Mac tho' - go figure.

 

[jonkovach]

Let me rephrase... it runs great. It is faster than CS3, hands down.
But when I'm not using it, and it is sitting idle, it is hogging a lot of my CPU processing.... does that make sense? Not RAM, but CPU.
Jon

 

[Eddie3000]

Let me rephrase... it runs great. It is faster than CS3, hands down.
But when I'm not using it, and it is sitting idle, it is hogging a lot of my CPU processing.... does that make sense? Not RAM, but CPU.
Jon

Yeah, I understand. But not happening to me. Takes up very little CPU process space. Illustrator and Pagemaker 13 hardly register. Dreamweaver takes up the most, but not that much. The one that I thought would be the CPU hog, Photoshop, is the one taking the least!

What I have been getting, if I'm using Illustrator and Photoshop at the same time on biggish projects, is they get RAM happy!! Time to buy some more, I think. Figures!!

 

[jonkovach]

Yeah, I don't see much CPU process space taken by Illy or Indd.... but Photoshop, wow... I was shocked. Got me...
Just saw this in the preferences - they have a slider now to allocate more or less RAM to Photoshop - not sure if this will help you or not. Not sure if this is a new feature or not, either.

 

[Eddie3000]

Just saw this in the preferences - they have a slider now to allocate more or less RAM to Photoshop - not sure if this will help you or not. Not sure if this is a new feature or not, either.

It's been around since version 7 (when it was ported to OSX). Don't think that will help. I have mine set to the max recommended. I have my cache turned up to 8, though. But these things are for when you're actually working in Photoshop - shouldn't make a damn bit of difference if it's idling!?!