how stable is your CS3?

[joshchernoff]

I don't like to complain but, OMG I have never crashed to desk top as many times in one week with any program that I have ever owned in my life as much as I have with CS3.

And to top it off the CS3 bridge will only open images in paint!

Crashing System ^ 3

[Stratification]

Not once for me, Dreamweaver had some strange screen refresh issues the first day, but seems to have gone away since. No crashes though, running it on my MacBook, OS 10.4.9.

[joshchernoff]

just so you know my pc is more then able to run the CS3 programs.

amd athon 4000+
2 gigs of pc6400 dual bus ram
gt7600 nivdia 256 ddr3 video

Even then I get lag, CTDs and weired settings to open file formats in the wrong programs. :puzzle:

[deltajam]

No accusations here, but if you have a pirated copy, it could be the source of your problems. Either find a better copy, or buy the software.

[Stratification]

Did you happen to have the Photoshop CS3 beta? If that wasn't cleaned off properly I suppose that might do it. I still haven't had any problems, I'm really enjoying the new feature sets for this suite.

[sekasi]

CS3 suite is working flawlessly on 10.4.8 OS X on a Dual Quadcore 2.6GHZ G5 PowerMac.

But then again... all programs work flawlessly on OS X : )

[joshchernoff]

Did you happen to have the Photoshop CS3 beta? If that wasn't cleaned off properly I suppose that might do it. I still haven't had any problems, I'm really enjoying the new feature sets for this suite.
no I didn't oddly though I haven't crashed since I posted this topic. :smirk:

[Stratification]

Ah yes, the secret of tech support. Intimidate the computer into working :D

[joshchernoff]

Ah yes, the secret of tech support. Intimidate the computer into working :D

I call them gremlins. :yoshi:

[Starpromo]

Not had any problems on my Mac (Core 2 Duo 2.13ghz 2gb RAM) Works like a dream and boots so fast i could cry.

[JoshuaJonah]

Dreamweaver crashes a bit when i play with the spry wizards, other than that works ok.

It also decides not to work with hosting accounts in the files section eery once in a while but restarting dreamweaver usually fixes it fast.

[ø]

I got the cs3 design premium last night *yay* and I've had 0 problems :)

[awesty]

i havent had any problems yet.

[hybrid101]

the beta didn't give me any, and still can't find resellers:(

[pixelSnobbery]

Flash cs3 has crashed once on me, but I was running about 5 million applications at the same time... :nerd:

[schmichael]

I have been running Flash CS3 for a week and have had 3 crashes when closing the app and while not doing anything else at the same time, this is a lot less than before tho!
I run Mac OS 10.4.9, on a Power PC

[prototype]

Flash CS3 crashed once (today) when I tried to import a FLV to the library. Tried it again and it worked fine. No other problems or oddities in the Web Design Premium bundle (mac).

[joshchernoff]

I have determined this is a windows problem I'v been having. Today all my file associations stopped working and when trying to change them with in windows it would not let me. So after a full reinstall of CS3 I have had no problems. One more reason why adobe should make a Linux version for PC users.

[zfoley]

Flash CS3 crashes a lot. I think it runs out of memory, which is sad and frustratuing as I'm on a dual processor machine with 2 Gigs of ram. In short, the machine is *** fast - but CS3 is not. Takes about 60 seconds to launch Flash CS3 and even longer for Photoshop or Illustrator. Ahh yes, typical Adobe...
But those crashes have got to go. Patch anyone?

[Voetsjoeba]

What is "CTD" ?

[joshchernoff]

crash to desktop

[sekasi]

(Crash to desktop)

My CS3 is extremely stable on 10.4.8 (cuz I didnt upgrade to 4.9 cuz that update sucks! :p) .. but there is one really weird thing thats going on..

if I have CS3 open, my firefox tends to crash every now and then.. it NEVER crashes normally so I tested it a bit and sure enough, it only crashes if CS3 is open .. like once every 5 hours or so.

Pretty strange, but I can live with it.

[Huinoio]

Mine crashes all the time. The same with the 8 version. One thing I have learned is that when the pop up message appears to start my Visual Studio debugger, I can actually go to flash and save my work, then allow everything to close down after it's saved.

[Fl4SH'ER]

I'm on windows XP SP2 and works perfectly. No crashes, nothing. ;)

[nicemandan]

I'm using XP SP2, andt crashes all the time across a network and if a Mac has previously opened the file.

Sometimes files wont open or it crashes after fairly simple operations e.g. opening the actions panel or setting % in transform panel.

To solve this I have to copy to my local drive open it, save it locally and copy it back to the network drive. What a pain in the arse!

[benkyoto]

Crashes very frequently. I'm not sure if it's fair to say that it does crash more than Flash Pro 8, but I percieve it to do so. The crashes so far don't seem to follow any pattern. Sometimes it's when importing a vector graphic, sometimes when I'm simply trying to jump to a different frame in the timeline. For the hefty price tag, one would expect more.

[kirupa]

I've had some issues during startup related to the licensing service not working, but beyond that, I've had no problems with CS3. It's been great so far :)

[SimplyArun]

I've had no issues so far, even while running multiple CS3 apps at the same time. =)

[trundrumbalind]

just so you know my pc is more then able to run the CS3 programs.

amd athon 4000+
2 gigs of pc6400 dual bus ram
gt7600 nivdia 256 ddr3 video

kirupaEdit: Baleeted! For future reference, check out points 6 and 7 here: http://www.kirupa.com/forumGuide/guidelines.htm :)

[Templarian]

^Careful bannable offense right there.

(btw, Old Thread, and Flash Develop is the way to go)

[Charleh]

Ah, but it *IS* a PC right!? There's your problem... No matter how good it is, after 8 months or so, nearly all PCs go to sh!t. Get yourself a Macbook Pro!


I beg to differ - I'm not going to start the whole Mac vs PC debate because, as Templarian said, it's one of those taboo topics, but I am going to say

you are wrong

I've had my PC for about 5 years now and it's still going strong. I've had one power supply die on me and that's about it. It still runs Counter-Strike (the only game I play - oh and not CS:Source...it runs that but source is for noobs :D) and it handles all the apps I throw at it - it's lacking in horsepower and graphics power but it's a great machine.

Personally I think Macs are style over substance, but that's a whole other (bannable) topic!

[bernk]

For me the weirdest thing is that the beta of PS launched in a couple of seconds on my PowerBook 1.67...yeah, I'm oldschool.

I cleared the beta and installed a non-cracked design premium suite and it launches slower. The ****tiest thing is that on my dual 2GHz G5 the programs don't launch much faster then on the PowerBook...

I love CS3, but I don't like the direction Adobe is taking with some of the apps. They are waaay past bloated. Some of the features they're adding to PS these days are just crazy and call for a totally separate program. 3D?! WTF.

I'd say overall the program are more stable, especially Illustrator. However, the new interface has bugs, at least on PPC Macs.

By the sound of things it seems as though CS3 is basically built for Intel Macs, much like CS and CS2 was built for the AltiVec processor.

[bernk]

Personally I think Macs are style over substance, but that's a whole other (bannable) topic!

I thought you weren't going to start the whole Mac vs. PC debate...

I don't use kympooters anyway, so I'm totally covered.

[imaginarylines]

i'm loving CS3. coming from a MX 2004 install that crashed every time i used it. literally, if the program did not crash by the time i was done using it, i would get "App Unexpectedly Quit" after cmd-Q. i don't fault the app tho, i suspect a neglected hardware error has spawned all sorts of additional problems as that old G4 can't do anything resource intensive without eventually telling me "you're screwed" in four languages.

Flash CS3 has yet to crash on me once (installed on a newer G5). Wish I could say the same for Photoshop CS3. :(

[spazcer]

Intel Core 2 Duo T7700, 2.40GHz w/ 4.0GB, DDR2-667 SDRAM and NVIDIA QUADRO FX1600M

Ive got adobe design premium and i havent had any problems with Flash crashing on me at all. Dreamweaver lags on me a little sometimes but thats about it.

[coreysj]

I use CS3 on both XP and Vista, and have found that it has issues with the filesystem in both operating systems. The most consistent crash phenomena is localized to opening new documents or attempting to Save As... which is unfortunately required in cs3 to keep files saved as flash 8 format. The folder tree doesnt even show up...the blank window appears and then flash cs3, and the window, disappear completely! The system event log doesnt record anything of relevance, and upon re-launching cs3 the files open fine (but unsaved changes are lost). This is a lot more common in Vista than XP.

[monkeyyeknom]

I may have a solution for Flash CS3 crashes on Windows -- Mac users move along this won't help you.

I found a couple of mentions of WindowBlinds 6 being installed and I noticed that my crashes were happening after redraws started slowing down or not happening at all, and the windows started flickering, especially when testing movies. I disabled WindowBlinds for Flash using the per-application overrides, and it's been 2 hours now with no crashes (used to happen after about an hour). Can't guarantee it'll work for everyone but it seems to have helped me.

Fortunately it's really only the titlebar that's even skinned in Flash, the CS3 interface overrides pretty much everything else, so it's not even that bad to look at. Thinking about disabling it for all CS3 apps to see if it helps performance in others, although it's only Flash that really seems affected.

[m_for]

I use both Mac OSX and XP and have the exact same bugs in each. The WORST is the guaranteed crash of Flash CS3 when you choose List Variables or List Objects, even in a brand new file with nothing in it.
Not very productive for a purchased CS3 Production Premium.
:td:

[jowie74]

I am a Mac person, but I use Flash at work on the PC. Flash 8 was fast, stable and very reliable. Ever since we upgraded to CS3 it's been buggy, crashy, slow and totally unreliable. ActionScript 3 as a language is great and really makes a difference. However for some reason they have really let Flash go to pot as it struggles to render screens and doesn't even allow a stop(); command on the first frame (it just ignores it). AS3 is a step forward, CS3 about four steps backward.

I'd quite happily just use Flash 8 instead for older projects (which I do sometimes), however I guess CS3 has updated (not improved) some of the DLL files or whatever is shared between the two. Now Flash 8 bombs out about as often as CS3, which is at present about six to ten times a day.

What a load of rubbish!