Adobe CS2 on win7?

[john1]

Anyone installed CS2 on windows 7? If so are there any issues or anything?

Thanks!

 

[signswi]

Why would there be issues? Other than being 3.5 versions behind I mean .

 

[WildWestDesigns]

Sometimes if you are too far beyond on some software it can render some options unavailable. I'm not saying that that is the case here, but I know with previous versions of my embroidery software, some options will not work with win7 (exporting to your machines memory card (like CF cards, but only able to handle embroidery formats) is one of those).

So I could see there being an issue with that. Only other thing that would concern me specifically with adobe products is that in CS2 does Photoshop have good resource management or was CS2 before that? That would probably be the thing that concerned me the most.

 

[john1]

I found someone with illustrator 8 and it wouldn't even launch the installer on win7 so i don't want to make another mistake.

Thanks

 

[signswi]

Illustrator 8 comes on stone tablets, CS2 is at least from this millenium. Basically any software designed for Windows post-move to the NT core (Windows 2000, XP, Vista, 7 are NT core; 2000 came out in Feb. 2000) will work without issues. Illustrator 8 you can get to work running in 9x compatibility mode.

There are more problems going in the opposite direction -- if you try to run CS4+ on anything before Vista it won't work properly as it's not a GPU accelerated OS.

 

[Williams Signs]

CS2 will not install on Windows 7 64 bit. I know cause I tried.

 

[Malkin]

I have Illy 10.0 CS2 & CS5 all installed on Win 7 64 bit. The older versions do require some backwards compatibility settings in order to work.

 

[WildWestDesigns]

I have Illy 10.0 CS2 & CS5 all installed on Win 7 64 bit. The older versions do require some backwards compatibility settings in order to work.

Is all functionality still there?

My only experience has been with embroidery software and it did install, but some options were no longer available. I would be curious if after all that "backwards compatibility" that Ai's previous versions still retained full function or if it lost something.

 

[P Wagner]

I have Illy 10.0 CS2 & CS5 all installed on Win 7 64 bit. The older versions do require some backwards compatibility settings in order to work.

The real issue is whether the OS is 32-bit or 64-bit. The 64-bit version of Windows 7 will corrupt the CS2 installation is you use a standard wizard-driven installation. You would need to install it using Windows XP compatability mode (right click on the exe and choose XP mode). You should lose no functionality in CS2 if you load it correctly.

 

[BPI Color]

You can lose some functionality. This is 'cuz CS2 was written for Windows XP. If you go this route make sure you run it in legacy mode. I had several problems with Illustrator CS3. Now I'm using CS 5.5. Everything runs just dandy.

 

[tsgstl]

never had a issue installing CS

 

[Malkin]

I did do my installs with the winXP compatibility mode on. I don't know of any functionality lost, though I never use cs2 at this point. Just the old v10 and CS5.

The extremely odd thing is that there are some types of memory intensive functions that work better/more stable in v10 and fall flat in CS5. Mainly it's when rasterizing vector data, either right in the file or when exporting to JPG/TIFF. I have a wide open hard drive and 8GB ram, and yet CS5 seems to choke very easily. Oh well, so far I get by...

 

[WildWestDesigns]

yet CS5 seems to choke very easily. Oh well, so far I get by...

Have you updated your programs? Mine used to freeze when exporting raster files as well and I have 16GB of RAM, but when I updated, it still is pretty slow, but it didn't choke. Even exporting the same file that would earlier cause it to choke and crash.