whenever I launch Adobe Photoshop CS4 It crashes on the screen that says "Reading Preferences"

If anyone knows a fix to this it would be greatly appreciated if you could share it with me =)

-Thanks

we need a lot more info, like your version of OS X and your hardware. just a quick solution which worked for me in this situation, i fresh installed Leo4All v3 10.5.2 and it worked fine, that was posted on this forum already, you should search before you posted...

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iMac ::: Mac OS X 10.6.1 ::: Intel Core2Duo 2.93GHz ::: NVIDIA Geforce GT 120 256MB ::: 4GB DDR3 RAM

Milanca Project ::: Mac OS X 10.6.1 Retail ::: Vanilla Kernel ::: Intel Core2Quad Q6600 2.4GHz ::: NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT 256MB ::: 4GB DDR2 RAM ::: GIGABYTE GA-EP35C-DS3R

do you have CI/QE support? and yes, please tell us a little more about the issue by relaying your system specs.

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Mac OSX86 Version 10.5.5 Kalyway Patched



Processor Name: AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 5200+

Processor speed: 2.7 GHz

Memory: 2GB

Bus Speed: 200 MHz




Graphics/Displays

Chipset Model: GeForce 9500 GT
Type: Display
Bus: PCIe
PCIe Lane Width: x16
VRAM (Total): 512 MB
Vendor: NVIDIA (0x10de)
Device ID: 0x0640
Revision ID: 0x00a1
ROM Revision: NVdarwin 1.2.3
Displays:
Display:
Resolution: 1280 x 960 @ 60 Hz
Depth: 32-bit Color
Core Image: Hardware Accelerated
Main Display: Yes
Mirror: Off
Online: Yes
Quartz Extreme: Supported
Rotation: Supported
Display Connector:
Status: No display connected

I have no idea how to check if I have CI/QE support

the problem i think is to do with 10.5.5, when i was using Leo4All 10.5.5 it wouldnt work for me, and crashed also at the same time as you indicate, i manually patched my OS to 10.5.5 and it sounds like you have as well, so there must be something wrong with the AMD Patched Updates that causes Photoshop CS4 to crash, when i went back to 10.5.2 it all worked fine.

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iMac ::: Mac OS X 10.6.1 ::: Intel Core2Duo 2.93GHz ::: NVIDIA Geforce GT 120 256MB ::: 4GB DDR3 RAM

Milanca Project ::: Mac OS X 10.6.1 Retail ::: Vanilla Kernel ::: Intel Core2Quad Q6600 2.4GHz ::: NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT 256MB ::: 4GB DDR2 RAM ::: GIGABYTE GA-EP35C-DS3R

Sounds like that would be the problem but I wonder if theres a fix? the reason I had to update to 10.5.5 was to install something to get my graphics card to work.

does it work with 10.5.4? I would say have a test partition you can run it on at 10.5.whatever and then your regular 10.5.5. little unnecessary right now but I think the issue will be fixed when we can natively update via Apple with Voodoo.

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when I had 10.5.4 a while back, It did work as a matter of fact. and I have no idea what Voodoo is haha. I keep hearing about it but I still haven't found out what it is =)

Thanks for the help =)

its a kernal in beta testing right now, you can find out about it and download it from the news and releases section here, im using it now, its fairly good

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iMac ::: Mac OS X 10.6.1 ::: Intel Core2Duo 2.93GHz ::: NVIDIA Geforce GT 120 256MB ::: 4GB DDR3 RAM

Milanca Project ::: Mac OS X 10.6.1 Retail ::: Vanilla Kernel ::: Intel Core2Quad Q6600 2.4GHz ::: NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT 256MB ::: 4GB DDR2 RAM ::: GIGABYTE GA-EP35C-DS3R

Did anyone ever figure out how to fix this or what is wrong? It seems like allot of my questions that I post seem to get discussed and my problem doesn't get fixed. I know that I should be happy i'm even getting help but If there isn't a fix for it can you just let me know?

-Thank you