Photoshop CS4 keeps crashing!

[crzygrk]

I have found that CS4 is incompatible with alot of programs running same time..... the more programs you have running the more RAM is used.

I read somewhere that, when there isnt enough RAM to support CS4, it will just close, instead of lagging the computer.

If in preferences you have selected to dedicate PS to 500mb of RAM, When the computer starts needing the 500mb dedicated to photoshop, it will terminate photoshop, it also happens in After effects sometimes. If you have 1gb ram and 500 to PS, that leaves the 500 for windows and other programs, which is nothing. i think windows needs about 300 to run, so your left with 100-200 spare.

I think that 1gb Ram isnt enough, i had recently upgraded to 4gb RAM from 2gb and everything is much smoother.

[hyde]

This is not a solution, when I'm processing a 15 Mp RAW file Photoshop needs 550 Mb. The main problem is that you can't save your work before the crash.

[cs4-me]

Photoshop CS4 shut off by itself every 5 minute or so after I opened the application. Tried reloading CS4 but didn't help. Read some users suggested to update the graphic driver and it seemed to be the solution for my problem. After I uploaded the updated graphic driver from NVIDIA driver site, CS4 was not crashing anymore. I have tested it with the new driver for over one hour and seemed to be stable. Thanks to this Forum.

[TheBeautifulPeople]

What Os are you using? system specs? etc.

[cs4-me]

Machine: Dell Dimension 8400
OS: Window XP
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce 6800
CPU: Intel Pentium 4. 3.4GHz
Physical Memory:1G
Experienced some slowness in refreshing frames, thinking of adding memory as suggested by other user.

[epoclaen]

Maybe this will help someone with a similar issue as mine.

I was running Photoshop CS4 on Windows XP/SP3 using an Nvidia GEForce 7600 GT video card. I was getting errors when starting photoshop telling me that:

"Photoshop encountered a problem with the display driver, and has temporarily disabled GPU enhancements. Check the video card manufacturer's website for the latest software.

GPU enhancements can be enabled in the Performance panel of Preferences."

I tried upgrading the video driver to Nvidia's 191.07 version (from v182.50) and since then both Photoshop and Bridge (I didn't test other Adobe software) were causing my system (not just Photoshop) to crash, particularly when closing the programs or saving a file, giving a variety of STOP error messages at the bluescreen including 0x0000008E, 0x00000019 and 0x0000000A errors with two mentioning nv4_disp.dll and dxdiagn.dll.

Uninstalling PhysX alone (which is included in most recent Nvidia Driver downloads) didn't help but reverting to the previous driver version by downloading a fresh copy from Nvidia's website seems to have rectified the issue so far.

Maybe this will help people troubleshoot their particular issues.

Epoclaen

[iDad]

Good info thank you!

[JLBerry]

Most of these problems are often related to an outdated graphics driver or the wrong removal of the old driver.

The most reliable way to remove the old driver is with a program like drivercleaner.net:

Solve Driver Problems, Fix Crashes - Driver Cleaner

Success guaranteed and I talk from years of experience with this software. Note that I have no relationship with that company.

[Brannigans Law]

As a first time poster and noob to the board I was gonna start a new thread as it seems after reading here that my problem isn't answered, but I thought I'd give it a shot.
I have a brand new system and it has been running for only a few months. As of Friday PS decided to start shutting down after a few seconds of being on. I have spent hours on hold only to get help from people that can't seem to help me. I spoke with three guy from India with Adobe's tech and two EVGA tech guys. They were all completely useless except for the second EVGA guy and in the end he concluded it was a PS issue. I ran OCCT and passed everything. I have uninstalled/installed PS and my NVIDIA drivers several times. Flash and Illustrator work just fine. I spend most of my daytime hours on those two then import to PS for color and final export.

I'm running:
Vista 64
Intel Core i7-920 Quad-Core 2.66GHz
GeForce GTX 285 1GB 512-bit
6GB RAM
ASUS P6T Deluxe V2 LGA 1366 Intel X58 ATX Intel Motherboard

My system should have no problems with openGL being on or off, but for the sake of this issue it has been since disabled. I put the motherboard up because I saw somewhere about the ASUS gaming issue, but I don't have any games installed onto this system yet. I got the latest drivers from NVIDIA. They were actually just released last week, but it still crashed. The crashes do not give me any info. They just say Photoshop is shutting down and then I have to click a tab in the window that only allows me to close PS. It will once maybe every 10 crashes write an error log and says it will send it to Adobe. As you can imagine I'm quite frustrated and I'm almost ready to give up all together. Anyone?

[JLBerry]

I spoke with three guy from India with Adobe's tech and two EVGA tech guys. They were all completely useless except for the second EVGA guy and in the end he concluded it was a PS issue.

I work in the IT for many, many years now and I can guarantee you that it's impossible to claim by just a phone conversation that it's in this case a PS issue, obviously the guy clearly wanted to get rid of you.

Since you use OCCT, does that also mean that your system is overclocked?