Photoshop CS4 keeps crashing!

[jdsevier]

Yep I tried that too. Only thing running is the Finder and Photoshop CS4

Im researching right now and it appears the ATI Radeon HD 2600 (stock video card) is not very popular with Snow Leopard or OpenGL in CS4.

Thanks

[cc4digital]

Thank you, thank you. It worked.
What was happening:
Photoshop cs4 and cs5 would crash after about 10 minutes after being opened. No error message was given.
After reading this forum- it worked. What I did-->(my graphic card is GeForce6600, see end for more exact details)

1. I purchased what JLBerry recommend-- If figured it was $10.00 bucks it could not hurt, unless there was a virus. It legit software.
2. 2nd I went and downloaded new display driver from Nvidia
3. 3rd Ran the software. Actually, under help at the bottom are the step you need to take. I didn't see them until after I ran the program, but it still worked.
4. Uninstalled it from control panel.
5. restarted. screen resolution drops to something like 640x480 on start-up.
6. Ran the nvida driver update software.
7. restarted.
8. Screen started back in hi res.
9. Loaded photoshop cs5
10. It been running for 3 hours now with no crashes. What a relief. This was a really suckie error.
11. Hope this help someone, because I feel your pain.

GeForce 6600
GPU NV43
Device ID 10DE-0141
Revision A3
Subvendor ASUStek Computer Inc (1043)
Current Performance Level Level 1
Current GPU Clock 300 MHz
Current Memory Clock 500 MHz
Technology 110 nm
Die Size 150 nmІ
Transistors 143 M
Release Date 2004
DirectX Support 9.0c
DirectX Shader Model 3.0
OpenGL Support 2.0
Bus Interface PCI Express x16
GPU Clock 300 MHz
Memory Clock 500 MHz
Driver nv4_disp.dll
Driver version 6.14.12.6658
ForceWare version 266.58
BIOS Version 5.43.02.61.00
ROPs 4
Shaders Vertex 8/Pixel 8
Memory Type DDR2
Memory 256 MB
Bus Width 128 Bit
Pixel Fillrate 1.2 GPixels/s
Texture Fillrate 2.4 GTexels/s
Bandwidth 16.0 GB/s

[Digital4Hue]

This might not be the answer to your problem, but I found that buying a "gameing" computer, all of the graphics software that I throw at it works great. I have an IBuypower, but I see alot of gaming computers pretty cheap on craigslist with decent graphics cards.