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james p hunter
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Jun 17, 2012 10:00 AM

I am about to build a new PC. I will install CS5 creative suite and upgrade to CS6 but I need to know if it has support for the new  Windows 8 O/S

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JPH

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  • Bob Levine
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    1. Bob Levine,
    Jun 17, 2012 10:03 AM   in reply to james p hunter
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    Until it's released later this year, there will be no official list of what is and isn't supported. I can tell you that I have CS6 installed on a test machine with Windows 8 Release Preview on it and from the brief testing I've done everything seems okay.

     

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    2. james p hunter,
    Jun 17, 2012 10:03 AM   in reply to Bob Levine
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    Thanks

     
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  • Crash2Pieces
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    3. Crash2Pieces,
    Jul 17, 2012 7:33 PM   in reply to james p hunter
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    Right now I have the Windows 8 Release Preview and the Creative Suite 5 does not install, it fails every time before installation complete... I hope it is a Windows problem and that gets fixed before the official release.

     
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  • Bob Levine
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    4. Bob Levine,
    Jul 18, 2012 4:32 AM   in reply to Crash2Pieces
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    You should report that Microsoft. As I said, CS6 installs and runs just fine and the chances of Adobe issuing an update for CS5 at this point in time are not very good.

     

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  • Steven Frangopulo
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    5. Steven Frangopulo,
    Oct 17, 2012 12:32 AM   in reply to Crash2Pieces
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    have you managed to get cs5.5 to install on windows 8 yet or did you revert back to another version?

     
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    6. james p hunter,
    Oct 17, 2012 6:42 AM   in reply to Steven Frangopulo
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    I was building a new rig and went for the safe option of installing windows 7 then CS5.5 ( and upgraded that to CS6. ) I haven't upgraded to  windows 8 yet, initial reports about Windows 8 contained the usual gripes about a new system, so I intend to wait until more information is in about it from experienced users. I think the best option is to install CS5 on Windows 7 at the moment  then wait until you can get CS6 upgrade and see what the info on Windows 8 is. Bob Levine seems to have had no problems so far with CS6 and Windows 8. I had installation  problems with CS4 and Windows Vista (But everyone seems to have had problems with Vista) but that was a 32bit version and I am not sure whether that added to my problems at that time, for sure my CS4 was very flaky on my 32 bit Vista machine. so the only advice I can offer is fork out for Windows 7 64 bit and install CS5 as a proven system, or fork out for CS6 and install on your Windows 8 64 system.

    hope this helps.

    James Hunter

     
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  • Bob Levine
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    7. Bob Levine,
    Oct 17, 2012 6:52 AM   in reply to james p hunter
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    No problems at all running it on a MacBook Air through Boot Camp.

     

     

     

    I will definitely upgrade my main machine when it’s officially released but I’ll buy a new solid state drive, too.

     

     

     

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  • Crash2Pieces
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    8. Crash2Pieces,
    Oct 17, 2012 7:00 AM   in reply to Steven Frangopulo
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    I was able to get CS5.5 installed & working, sort of.  It still did not work on the Release Preview but it did work on the Windows 8 Enterprise Evaluation version, which is supposedly the final build of Windows 8.  I'm pretty confident there are no more issues, every aspect of CS5.5 currently works.

     
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