Photoshop Going Wacky.

[l3mon]

Yesterday, Photoshop CS4 started acting weird and I decided that instead of trying to fix it for hours on end I would just buy CS5 because it was time to upgrade anyway. The problems persist though, I'll just list the things that are wrong. First off, I have to click File->New (or Ctrl+N) 3 or 4 times to bring up the new document menu. When I hit create, the new document menu disappears like normal but no new document is created. I tried that a few times but failed to create a new file each time. After a few attempts, I was able to open a file by dragging it into photoshop. When drawing with the brush I noticed some odd behavior. Sometimes It would makes the stroke as I held down the mouse like normal, but when I released the stroke would disappear. Other times it would not appear at all, and once I was able to make a stroke. I have no conceivable idea what's wrong with photoshop. I hadn't been playing with the settings and I like the stickied topic suggested, I deleted the preferences and purged, restarted photoshop, nothing worked. I'm banging my head on my desk here If anyone has any idea, I would greatly appreciate.

[TheBlueAsset]

do you have any problems with other programs?, is it just photoshop?, also if everything fails the easier solution is to format your hard drive and start with a clean copy of windows ( assuming your not on a mac )

[l3mon]

Not it's just photoshop... Damn I really don't want to reformat.

[TheBlueAsset]

are you in windows?, try running as administrator and see if it helps

[l3mon]

Yeah win7x64, and I've tried the x86 and x64 versions of Photoshop as well as running as admin. No luck.

[Steve]

Just to be clear, PS4 was giving you a problem, you upgraded to CS5, and you have the same problems in both versions?
You said you reset preference and went to Edit|Purge|All, both steps right?

Try updating the video card driver that can cause various problems.

Are all the other programs running OK