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    Alienware m17x & Photoshop CS4/5 problems - laggy

    Discussion in 'Alienware 17 and M17x' started by Steele404, May 30, 2010.

  1. Steele404

    Steele404 Notebook Enthusiast

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    After almost a year getting hold of my m17x since august last year, I've just realized how choppy & laggy everything is with Photoshop, both in CS4 and CS5.... CS5 was worse.

    Panning and zooming is perfectly fine, with Open GL enabled in photoshop. However, resizing and moving stuff is laggy (depending on the size of the item I'm moving).

    Actually, I even have the same performance without the Open GL enabled...


    Spec: Windows 7 64 Bit, 4 GB Ram, Raid Performance, GFX 260m tried with 197.31 from DELL & 257.15 from the NVIDIA site.
     
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    Steele404 Notebook Enthusiast

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    Ok.... I reinstalled CS5 to have another go at it..... it's absolutely NOT usable at all, resizing a 10 character on a Blank A3 Canvas takes 2 seconds to redraw and see the new size of the text as I resize it larger....
     
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    Heah Notebook Guru

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    haf u checked whether u r using discrete graphic?
     
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    Glzmo Notebook Deity

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    I also had performance problems with Photoshop on the M17x-R1. With the M17x-R2 it works fine, however.
     
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    yea, it's discreet graphics... I even made sure that it's only Discreet by disabling the Hybrid options in the BIOS menu.

    Photoshop CS5 even detected it properly in the Performance settings options.


    Painting a 600+px brush, moving blocks of images, resizing paragraphs, even typing new texts takes time to redraw each letters....

    Lets say I re-size a typical desktop wallpaper in photoshop using the transform tool..... I can actually see the redraw process as the picture start to fill in blocks ... :S
     
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    the3vilGenius 3vil knows no fear

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    Are you using a official version? CS4 was verry laggy when it came out, they had to fix it with updates. maybe its the same for CS5.
     
    the3vilGenius, May 30, 2010
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