CS5 open GL vidio card question

[Bill Koenig]

I'm upgrading my 4 year old Dell 380 work station to Windows 7 ultimate 64 and CS5.
I currently have a  ATI Fire GL V3100 with 128 MB of on board ram, this card isn't adequate to run open GL.
If my 4 year old PC can even do it, what is the minimum I need to run open GL in CS5?

I have the following, three PCI card slots

One PCI Express x16 card slot
One PCI Express x8 card slot (wired as x4)
One PCI Express x1 card slot

[Steve Weldon]

, what is the minimum I need to run open GL in CS5?

ANY video card that supports Open GL.  I have a number of PC's.. a workstation running ATI 5770 cards and of course that works fine.. a Dell Precision Mobile Workstation with the expensive Quattro video card option and that works fine.  A five year old Dell business class Latitude laptop with the 128mb cheap video card option and that works fine.. and the newest.. a Lenovo x201s with integrated Intel graphics and that works great too..

Open GL is enabled automatically with all of them.  Heck, it even works on my wife's laptop, a 6 year old 710m Inspiron..

I'm a bit surprised your current card won't enable Open GL.. are you sure you're running the most current drivers?

[jerryrock]

Windows based system requirements:

1024x768 display (1280x800 recommended) with qualified hardware-accelerated OpenGL graphics card, 16-bit color, and 256MB of VRAM
Some GPU-accelerated features require graphics support for Shader Model 3.0 and OpenGL 2.0

List of tested video cards for Photoshop CS5

This list of graphics display cards was tested by Adobe before the release of Photoshop CS5. They are listed by series. The minimum amount of RAM supported on video cards for Photoshop CS5 is 128 MB. 256 MB of RAM is recommended.

Note: Adobe tested laptop and desktop versions of the following cards. Be sure to download the latest driver for your specific model. (Laptop and desktop versions have slightly different names.)

NVIDIA GeForce
7000, 8000, 9000, 100, 200, 400 series  

NVIDIA Quadro FX
x500, x700, x800, FX370, FX380, FX580 series, Quadro CX cards
(The x represents the initial version number of the card. For example, x500 represents all card lines that end in 500: the 4500, the 3500, and the 1500 ines of cards.)

ATI Radeon  
2000, 3000, 4000, 5000 series

Note: ATI X 1000 series cards are no longer being tested.

ATI FireGL
FireGL (R600 family GPUs x6xx series): V3600, V5600, V7600, V7700, V8600, V8650
FirePro (R700 family GPUs X7xx series): V3700 ,V3750, V5700, V7750, V8700, V8750

ATI FirePro
FirePro (R800 family GPUs x8xx series): V3800, V3850, V5800, V7800, V8800  

Intel
Intel HD Graphics
Intel GMA 4-Series Chipset

Macintosh
Macbook Air Intel GMA X3100