Flash CS4 for Mac is slow as fudge?

[flamedude]

Wow this is seriously disappointing me. I had a quick go on Flash cs4 on a vista 64-bit machine. It seemed ok to me, but I immediately thought that the new animation method is going to be way too slow to be productive with.

Great thing about the classic tween is that its really quick to use I suppose, I'm really interested on hearing peoples thoughts on the new motion editor and tween method.

[mp3sattack]

i was hoping to convince my boss to move to CS4, then tried Flash CS4... what a dissapointment, things like select and deselect take a long time and is stupid that simple things like those take so long, something i could have done in 10 minutes, it has taken me over 30, it's a shame :/

(BTW, i'm in a PC and it surpasses the CS4 requirements)

Goodbye Flash CS4 Trial, i'm staying with CS3

[captkeebz]

Hi everyone,

Late to the party, I know. My entire team of 40+ artists and developers just upgraded to the CS4 suite. We are unfortunately regretting it. We have a mix of professional workstations running XP with mostly quad cores less than two years old. Flash CS4 is almost unusable. Constant crashing, NO SUPPORT FOR WORKING OVER A LAN (which was news to me after working with Flash for 5 years) http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/000/d9bbd9d4.html, mysterious font issues and many other miscellaneous issues, and EXTREME slowness. Unfortunate, as I have been a heavy advocate for Flash in that past, and have spend those 5 years learning all about its intricacies. We work with tens of thousands of FLAs in a tight production environment and we just need a tool that works. Flash CS4 is not adequate, sorry to pile on. If you don't have a specific need to use Flash, I would recommend avoiding this release in lieu of alternatives.

[captkeebz]

I also find is very suspicious that no links to any Adobe sites are showing up in Google while I'm researching this very serious issue. I have to wonder if they're actively trying to suppress complaints. C'mon Adobe, the Flash platform was becoming increasingly difficult for me to justify to my management, this debacle isn't helping.

[Mark2k]

I just upgraded to a 2.93 Core2Duo with 4 gig of DDR3 Ram and a 7200rpm HD and, while performance is better, some stuff is insanely slow on CS4 that was manageable on my 2.33ghz 2gig machine under CS3. That is uber sad.

[debofly]

Yeah I just made the change from PC to Mac about 2 months ago and did a platform change and upgraded to CS4 and it is slow as christmas on to much. But Im hanging in there since I'm sure it will be resolved.

[dekvar]

Yeah I just made the change from PC to Mac about 2 months ago and did a platform change and upgraded to CS4 and it is slow as christmas on to much. But Im hanging in there since I'm sure it will be resolved.

Haven't tried CS4 myself and don't plan to after what i've read.

What galls me is this. Adobe (and some other companies) have created whole industries around these applications: Flash, AE, PS, Premiere, Word, etc. etc. Every year or so, they release a "new" version with one or two new features that they actually thought of years ago but deliberately withheld so they'd have an excuse to release future versions ad infinitum (i.e. to milk everybody for more cash). Pretty soon we'll be running Flash XS 9 (really ver. 23) and Photoshop XS9 (really ver. 41). It's absurd. Like many things including people, software peaks, then starts to decline. Obviously CS4 is past that point.

I'm still using Flash 5, which as we all know was the big jump (from v. 4). I've tried MX, 8, CS3. Yah, they have a few goodies, but man, is Flash 5 ever fast on a newer machine. And i do mean faaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaast!! Have fun with CS4 though.