New Year, New PC, New Error Message

I bought 2 new PC during the December holidays
and suddenly I see a message which I have never
seen before.

'''Photoshop has encountered a problem with the display driver, and
has temporarily disabled GPU enhancements.
Check the video card manufacturer's web site for the latest
software.'''

The display card is a GeForce 7050 and I have updated the driver.

I am running CS4 and CS4 had no problems on my older PC
and older display card. (GeForce 5200)

I think I am busy picking up problems with my 2½ years old AL1914
ACER screen, (causing animated flickering *only sometimes) but there
is no way PS can be so clever knowing this.

What would be the reason for the error message?

BTW (off topic) I bought this Acer for the sake of a '3 years on site
guarantee', but firstly I have seen in forums people complaining about
Acer's customer service, and secondly, the animation (sometimes
very bad) happens once or twice a day, and some days not even.
Proving this to a Acer consultant may be difficult.

 

I think that PS didn't take (much/any?) advantage of GPU
acceleration capabilities in earlier versions. I was a beta
tester of cs4 and they were crowing about this -new -
feature... I'd report it to Adobe.

 

Thanks Jason. I'll sort my problems out with my Acer screen
and then with Adobe. I should say, after display of this message
regarding disabling GPU enhancements, I do not notice any difference.

The message continue by saying "GPU enhancements can be enabled in the
Performance panel of Preferences".

I went to the Performance panel and surely, GPU enhancements was
disabled. I ticked 'Enable OpenGL Drawing', closed it and opened it
again, and it kept on being enabled. Frustrating thus, but not
serious.

 

Surely (many) more people will receive the same error message.

Read this:

http://kb.adobe.com/selfservice/viewContent.do?externalId=kb404898

Dave