[RESOLVED] Photoshoop CS3

Kokowam · November 17, 2009, 12:12:11 AM

It was working just yesterday. ;-; It just crashes at the splash screen before it says it's even loading anything. I've tried searching but people seem to only be having a TWAIN error thing. >_>

Ofdensen · November 17, 2009, 12:25:18 AM

Im kinda thinking its more of a bad install, or its not cooperating with your hardware. Ive installed photoshop on horrible computers, it loaded every time, but just performed so bad and bogged my computers to death.

Grafikal · November 17, 2009, 12:25:50 AM

You might need to reinstall. I'm just assuming because if you can't even start it up, then that might be the only solution. If you're trying to open an existing PSD or other image then what Kipe said may ring true (if the image you're trying to open photoshop is too large). However, it's just opening it as basic, then reinstall.

Kokowam · November 17, 2009, 12:37:27 AM

I have 2GB RAM.

I'm not sure how it could be a bad install considering PS3 was working before and isn't working now.

I've already tried a re-install but the results are the same.

Ofdensen · November 17, 2009, 12:41:36 AM

Hmm, Perhaps it is a registry error. If you open your task manager, is the photoshop process running?

Kokowam · November 17, 2009, 12:48:06 AM

Not right now. If I start it up, yeah, it is.

Ofdensen · November 17, 2009, 12:50:23 AM

Does it stay though. Even after nothing shows up? Or does it seem that the whole programs exits out of itself. Is it a full crash with an error message?

Kokowam · November 17, 2009, 01:34:01 AM

Pictures speak louder than words:

Ofdensen · November 17, 2009, 01:45:54 AM

you should post the technical nature of the problem by pressing that click here button. That may tell us what kind of error it is.

Kokowam · November 17, 2009, 01:59:58 AM

That error signature's probably the only thing that'll indicate anything since the technical error report is WAYYYY tl;dr. A majority of it's in hexadecimal and crap.

Moss. · November 17, 2009, 03:42:32 AM

Reinstall.

Ofdensen · November 17, 2009, 04:05:37 AM

I agree with Arlen, however when you uninstall, you may want to make sure all traces of photoshop are gone before you reinstall.

Moss. · November 17, 2009, 04:26:58 AM

I probably should have read the rest of the thread.

But yeah, make sure all traces are gone, and re-install.
...if you're installing a not-so-legit version on Photoshop, that may be your issue, Adobe's tricky with their anti-pirating stuff sometimes.
Adobe tends to connect to the internet without telling you, and might shut you down if it learns that you're not using a legit copy. (in before Roph tells me otherwise)

When did you first install this program?
Did you update it since?
Have you installed anything new, since? Like fonts, new brush sets, or anything else that could possibly interfere with Photoshop?

(Also, why not just get CS4? lol)

Roph · November 17, 2009, 06:14:32 AM

It's referencing gdiplus.dll there. GDI+ is the API near the core of windows which applications require use of to literally draw parts of their windows with. Try disabling XP themes, or if you're running some other skinning/customisation app, disable it.

I want to just say photoshop is a bloated piece of shit and you deserve this problem for installing it. But hey, at least you got further than me; adobe's installer is such a piece of shit that I can't even install any of their software on my computer!

But meh. Obviously GDI+ itself is working or you wouldn't even be able to use windows, get that error box or post about it here. The problem, quite unsurprisingly, is almost certainly photoshop's.

Kokowam · November 17, 2009, 11:15:57 AM

Quote from: arlen on November 17, 2009, 04:26:58 AM
When did you first install this program?
Did you update it since?
Have you installed anything new, since? Like fonts, new brush sets, or anything else that could possibly interfere with Photoshop?

(Also, why not just get CS4? lol)

Idk it was a while ago. It's been lurking on my computer for quite some time and I've just recently started using it. I have installed new fonts before but, when I did, it was for photoshop and it worked.

idk, lol

@Roph: I'll get the error box when I come back from school; it's pretty gay because I can't copy/paste it and it's hella long.

Ofdensen · November 17, 2009, 03:28:20 PM

Well Good luck! Hopefully you can get it working.

Kokowam · November 17, 2009, 10:02:43 PM

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There's 48 more module thingies... Do you still want them? =_=

Kokowam · November 20, 2009, 07:51:33 PM

Okay, problem resolved so don't go worrying. Microsoft must just have made some dumb error in an update because update + restart = PSCS3 wants to work now all of a sudden.

firerain · November 20, 2009, 08:36:47 PM

or maybe you're just dumb :O

Kokowam · November 20, 2009, 08:42:16 PM

No, obviously Microsoft is dumb.

EDIT: They also fixed my problems with 2DF