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    Vaio SA3 and Photoshop problem

    Discussion in 'VAIO / Sony' started by immel, Jan 15, 2012.

  1. immel

    immel Notebook Consultant

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    This is pretty irritating, and not something I can manage to recreate on my Dell M1330.

    Photoshop (CS5.1) crashes every time I stress the CPU, and I can recreate the crash as many times as I want, if I stress it enough.

    If I make a 1920*1200 300dpi document and start filling it in with a large brush shape (holding mouse button down and whipping it around), the laptop fan goes insane (CPU peaks) and after a couple of seconds the computer freezes for a bit, then Photoshop stops responding.

    I'm using all the official drivers from Sony's website, specs can be seen in my signature. Does anyone have any idea for what to do to get better stability? Could it be a BIOS problem?

    This is important to me because I make my living through Photoshop, and it's not nice when it crashes on you several times a day. This can't be the usual CS3+ instability, it happens too often.
     
    immel, Jan 15, 2012
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  2. ZugZug

    ZugZug Notebook Evangelist

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    The issue is most likely with AMD Radeon drivers. You can navigate to Preferences -> Performance in Photoshop and the open up advanced settings for the graphics card from there and change level to Basic from Normal or to Normal from Advanced if that is what you had there. If worst comes to worst, you can turn off GPU acceleration altogether and see if your CPU can handle the load.
     
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  3. jeremyshaw

    jeremyshaw Big time Idiot

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    Lol, only real issue is the switchable drivers. Sony has done something wierd to them :( I get rendering glitches quite a bit in them.
     
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    kurichan Newbie

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  5. immel

    immel Notebook Consultant

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    Thanks for all the replies, I will test the various solutions.

    Another question, can I use official AMD drivers if I don't care about the switchable graphics? I would happily get rid of that feature if I could just get PS to run with more stability.
     
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    immel Notebook Consultant

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    I had my setting as Basic, tried Advanced and replicated the crash (actually managed to get a BSOD rather than PS not responding).

    Switched it off and have been stress testing PS for the past 5 min (usually takes less than 1 min to crash), so I guess I have to use it without 3D acceleration. It's quite a lot slower though :(

    Still wondering if anyone has had success with different drivers...
     
    immel, Jan 15, 2012
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    mak1 Notebook Geek

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    Well... try the drivers mentioned in this thread and please post a feedback their.
    Good luck
     
    mak1, Jan 15, 2012
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