PS3 slow???

[MEMPER]

So I just downloaded PS3 and it runs slow. I mean everything. It takes a moment even to open Edit/Image size. If I do a more complex operation like freetransform or right click while using the paintbrush to grab a different brush I get the ol' swirly hypnosis pinwheel thingy.
My PS2 however runs just fine.
Is there any way I can make PS3 more responsive?
Is it a memory issue? If so, can I add more memory?(when it comes to this basic side of computers Im lost:\ )
Im currently running a laptop G4 with OSX 10.4.8

Thanks,
mem

[thesaint]

Well, I downloaded the original beta and it runs fine... But I think it is slower indeed. I installed in my work and it is a mega-ultra-fucking machine for me :D Its a G5 2.8 dual with 2Gb ram

[RobHughes]

Hum, Am I just stupid but wasn't PS 3 like sometime back in the '80s?

Rob

(i thought I was being some kind of purist useing it for my digital portraits)

[Digital Transfer]

They meant PSCS3 (Photoshop Creative Suite 3)

[deckomankey83]

So I just downloaded PS3 and it runs slow. I mean everything. It takes a moment even to open Edit/Image size. If I do a more complex operation like freetransform or right click while using the paintbrush to grab a different brush I get the ol' swirly hypnosis pinwheel thingy.
My PS2 however runs just fine.
Is there any way I can make PS3 more responsive?
Is it a memory issue? If so, can I add more memory?(when it comes to this basic side of computers Im lost:\ )
Im currently running a laptop G4 with OSX 10.4.8

Thanks,
mem

if photoshop CS 2 runs fine and the beta of CS 3 runs slow, its probably because its not finished software yet.

i would not upgrade memory because of this, my advise would be to carry on using photoshop CS 2 until the retail version of CS 3 comes out; then CS 3 should run at the same speeds as photoshop CS 2. if not then maybe a upgrade of RAM might be a good idea.

[ability-normal]

PS3 is optimized for intel hardware for macs. I previously was running cs 2 on my macbook and it ran pretty slow compared to the ps2 on my pc desktop. But now that I have ps3. it runs super smooth on my laptop. even smoother than ps2 did on my desktop. So it is likely that it is your G4 hardware that is the issue.

[Leukeh]

I've been asking around in different forums, and for most people it has been working better than CS2. The whole suite. They say it's much more refined and performs better than previous versions... so maybe it's not Photoshop that's the problem? Not sure, I haven't tested it myself...

[Fredbt]

This is the reason I haven't upgraded Photoshop yet, but will when the final version of CS3 has been out for a little while. I had a G4 PPC tower and a G4 PPC PowerBook. (Both bought in 1999). In the past several months I've bought an Intel Mac Pro and an Intel MacBook Pro. Now with two Intel Macs, I expect to run Photoshop faster than ever before.

Several applications that I've had for a long time actually run way slower on the new Intel units than they did on the Power PC Macs because they run in Rosetta. I am waiting patiently until I can run universal binary applications on the newer Intel Macs. That's when I'm hoping for greatly improved speed.

Already, I see great speed increases in the few applications I have that are universal binary, and this new Intel PowerBook Pro boots up in almost no time at all. My old G4 PowerBook takes forever to boot up. I'm very, very happy about that.

[Dile_]

hm, what the heck? CS3 is the fastest version so far together with PS7.. I don't know about 4 and down, but PS 5.5 was slow, ps 6 was slow, 7 was fast, cs1 was slow, cs2 was really slow, and cs3 is uberfast :)

~Dile

[Basil]

i'm running it on my non-intel powerbook and it performs just fine. it's at least as fast as CS2 and the interface is much improved. you might try allocating extra memory to it under photoshop/preferences/performance.