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OS X 10.8.5 Developer Seed May Fix MacBook Air Photoshop Flickering

donutbagel said:
Which versions of Photoshop, all of them? I have CS6 and am not satisfied with it because it's bloated. I want to go back to CS3 or at least CS5.

Look at the specs for Photoshop CS6!

Multicore Intel processor with 64-bit support
Mac OS X v10.6.8 or v10.7. Adobe Creative Suite 3, 4, 5, CS5.5, and CS6 applications support Mac OS X Mountain Lion (v10.8) when installed on Intel-based systems.**
1 GB of RAM
2 GB of available hard-disk space for installation; additional free space required during installation (cannot install on a volume that uses a case-sensitive file system or on removable flash storage devices)
1024 x 768 display (1280 x 800 recommended) with 16-bit color and 512 MB (1 GB recommended) of VRAM

What did they do, hire some sloppy hackers to code it? This is disgusting. CS3 ran on freaking iMac G4s.

PowerPC G4 or G5 or multicore Intel processor
Mac OS X v10.4.8-10.5 (Leopard)
512 MB of RAM
64 MB of video RAM
2 GB of available hard-disk space (additional free space required during installation)

CS3 would see my machine and feel humble to operate on such a beast.
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Believe it or not, a lot of the software today (CS6) is actually written to take advantage of the current hardware and would have compatibility issues with older hardware.

Have fun editing 12Kb flip phone photos! Some of us actually use the acceleration features that take advantage our latest hardware or OS we're running.
 
MacOG728893 said:
Believe it or not, a lot of the software today (CS6) is actually written to take advantage of the current hardware and would have compatibility issues with older hardware.

Have fun editing 12Kb flip phone photos! Some of us actually use the acceleration features that take advantage our latest hardware or OS we're running.
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Big deal, CS6 is 64-bit and might take advantage of hardware acceleration a little more. It's still way slower. CS3 on my computer is like strapping a 1000HP engine onto a go-kart, minus the danger. I'm running iMac G4 software on a near-the-top 2008 Mac Pro, and its feature set is essentially the same thing as that of CS6. They must have gotten sloppy to bump the minimum specs like that without adding some massive new features. The 1GB VRAM recommendation for CS6 is ridiculous, and GPU is my computer's "bottleneck". It's an ATI 2600, not really something that should be too ancient for CS6. The requirement for CS3 is 64MB of VRAM, which is nothing nowadays.

I tried opening a few layers of the Mavericks wallpaper in full res and editing them. Works fine and uses a lot less RAM than CS6 would. I'm not opening CS6 again until there's some feature that CS3 lacks that I need, which I doubt will ever happen.
 
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strange how the flickering is only Photoshop...

I'm sure the same type of thing is also used in other stuff too, like Illustrator. Yet, the only concentrated on PS, maybe the guy who found the bug only had PS ? *shrugs*

Makes it 'look' like an Adobe issue, not Apples, since your using their product.

There is no proof of this occurring of anything else is there?
 
Why did Apple drop the developer seed thing they had going on with earlier developer / beta versions of Mac OS X Mountain Lion update releases?

With 10.8.5 I've had to manually download the updates from developer.apple.com instead of just installing the Developer / BETA seed and get them directly through the Mac App Store whenever new developer / BETA updates arrive.. That was a much more streamlined way to do it.
 
donutbagel said:
They must have gotten sloppy to bump the minimum specs like that without adding some massive new features.
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It's easier (=faster =cheaper) to produce unoptimized code - 'hardware is so cheap these days'.

"Programming" nowadays is little more than glueing all the libraries together that have been linked in.
 
Neodym said:
It's easier (=faster =cheaper) to produce unoptimized code - 'hardware is so cheap these days'.

"Programming" nowadays is little more than glueing all the libraries together that have been linked in.
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Yeah. I won't feel bad about staying at CS3 since it seems like the future is pretty bad with CC (not just because it's not optimized) :(
 
The nasty flickering on 2013 Haswell Macbook Airs is also a known issue with VMWare Fusion 5, for which there is a (possible) temporary fix. I encountered this issue almost straight away, and fortunately the fix (adding mks.vsync= "1" to the VM's config file) appears to have at least temporarily fixed the problem. See http://communities.vmware.com/thread/448885?start=0&tstart=0.

Tech198 said:
strange how the flickering is only Photoshop...

I'm sure the same type of thing is also used in other stuff too, like Illustrator. Yet, the only concentrated on PS, maybe the guy who found the bug only had PS ? *shrugs*

Makes it 'look' like an Adobe issue, not Apples, since your using their product.

There is no proof of this occurring of anything else is there?
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Flickering also in VMware Fusion

My new 2013 Macbook Air 11" is flickering when using a VMware Fusion Windows 7 instance - never happened in the previous 3 models.
 
I hope that they fixed the screen flickering on my early 2011 15" Macbook Pro. It is since 10.8.3 and i can see it when i view gradients on several websites. It is a software issue, since i have no problems in bootcamp..

Sometimes i really hate OSX... When i do a fresh install for example my SD card reader works untill the next OSX update. It is crazy.
 
Photoshop CS6 brush causing screen flicker

I don't really care who's problem this is. Just want my new Air to work properly when using CS6. Here is hope. Thanks for the heads up.
 
Tech198 said:
strange how the flickering is only Photoshop...

I'm sure the same type of thing is also used in other stuff too, like Illustrator. Yet, the only concentrated on PS, maybe the guy who found the bug only had PS ? *shrugs*

Makes it 'look' like an Adobe issue, not Apples, since your using their product.

There is no proof of this occurring of anything else is there?
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A poster previously said the same thing happens on iPhoto.
 
Dudical said:
It's an ADOBE bug, not an Apple bug. Makes me sick that Apple would have to stoop to Adobe's level and fix THEIR bug.

:apple::apple::apple:
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How do you know it is an Adobe bug? And yeah, why fix a major application, god forbid someone steps up to the plate. Your comment is nonsense.
 
Apple is not ever that concerned about such problems with their machines these days.
All they want is your $$$$$ - absolutely nothing else matters to them. Once they have your $$$$$ you can wait in line if the machine is unstable or not fit for purpose.
They know there are fanboys who would buy a turd if it had an :apple: logo on it and came in a shiny box.
 
I think the real question here is how does this get 40 + posts on this site with no one mentioning that shirt! WOW!
 
Dudical said:
It's an ADOBE bug, not an Apple bug. Makes me sick that Apple would have to stoop to Adobe's level and fix THEIR bug.

:apple::apple::apple:
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I guess knows this because you are a OS X developer working for Apple? Are you the person working on the fix because the evil people at Adobe can't do it themselves? Poor you.
 
markcres said:
Apple is not ever that concerned about such problems with their machines these days.
All they want is your $$$$$ - absolutely nothing else matters to them. Once they have your $$$$$ you can wait in line if the machine is unstable or not fit for purpose.
They know there are fanboys who would buy a turd if it had an :apple: logo on it and came in a shiny box.
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Completely unnecessary.
 
Well if they don't hurry their asses up and release the update, I will be swapping my 13 MBA for a third one since the 14 days on my second MBA will be running out soon. Hopefully third time lucky with getting a Samsung screen too.
 
markcres said:
Apple is not ever that concerned about such problems with their machines these days.
All they want is your $$$$$ - absolutely nothing else matters to them. Once they have your $$$$$ you can wait in line if the machine is unstable or not fit for purpose.
They know there are fanboys who would buy a turd if it had an :apple: logo on it and came in a shiny box.
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You don't know anything about Apple if you're not trolling. And if you are, you're doing a bad job at it. One of my friends got his iphone completely replaced because of a faulty sleep lock button. Tell me any other manufacturer where it would be as easy as going to a store and telling them about it to do something like that.
 
Treading ever so lightly....

I experience flickering in the upper left corner of iPhoto most of the time. When I move the cursor over the area, it sometimes goes away.

Please don't shun me for venturing a criticism of iPhoto....
 
elitecol said:
Lol here go the fanboys haha, makes him sick? how would he even know who's bug it is, he must be working in the Adobe coding team and already figured it out :rolleyes:
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I have to admit, I cannot see very well and I always have my mouse pointer size larger than the default.

I was able to reproduce the flickering by simply opening netbeans which is java based. When I reduce the pointer size to normal the issue goes away. It is not photoshop only that is causing this problem. As for photoshop it works perfectly if the pointer size is at the default value, otherwise when I increase the pointer size the screen flickers until I stop moving the mouse. I say it is a 5000 chipset / driver issue.
 
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