is CS3 slower then CS2?

[nekrosoft13]

I was thinking about upgrading from Photoshop CS2 to CS3.

Move from CS to CS2 resulted in slower application, is CS3 slower?

[OldOfEvil]

I upgraded from CS2 > CS3 (OSX side) and their is a very noticable differance. I haven't had a chance to try CS3 out on the PC, but I imagine you might have a small increase in performance, but generaly you just upgrade for the features.

[Bearclaw]

I upgraded from CS2 to CS3 and I did not notice any slowdown whatsoever. It is a lot nicer overall and the newer features work well.

I would reccomend it.

[einstein_314]

Yup, I too have been using CS3 lately and I haven't noticed any slow downs. In all honesty I haven't noticed any performance change neither increase nor decrease.

[Rakeesh]

I was thinking about upgrading from Photoshop CS2 to CS3.

Move from CS to CS2 resulted in slower application, is CS3 slower?

I prefer CS2 over CS3, namely because in CS3 they moved a bunch of functions to some different programs that aren't included.

And another thing - for whatever gay reason they require you to install a gig worth of crap on your windows boot partition no matter where you install CS3. I don't like that for various reasons.

Also adobe refused to patch CS2 to work with vista stating that their customers must buy CS3 in order to use photoshop in vista, but microsoft went and patched vista to be compatible with CS2 anyways.

[AngelGraves13]

Using CS 3 here and it's running great. I can't say if it runs better than CS 2 as CS 2 wasn't really Vista ready and had some platform problems.