Adobe Photoshop wanted to run on old unsupported Mac running MacOS Monterey (OCLP)

[FlorisVN]

Hi there,

I was helping out out neighbour, on which we upgraded all of his older mac's using opencore legacy patcher to the current latest release of macOS Monterey 12.6.

He still had Adobe CS4 photoshop running on them, with MacOS El Capitan and High Sierra, but of course this 32-bit app wont run anymore on Monterey.

I tried to install CC 2021-2022 of photoshop, but gave an error during the setup, the lack of SSE4.2 instruction sets for the CPU I think, which are missing and wont install further.

perhaps there is a way to get photoshop to run/install, he only needs basic editing..
what version is recommended ?

Mac's he is running is a macbook 13" 2009 and an 2009 iMac, both have non metal graphic cards.
We hope to find a version which can still run on them, anyone has an idea ?

Please let us know,

Regards,
Floris

 

[chrfr]

Hi there,

I was helping out out neighbour, on which we upgraded all of his older mac's using opencore legacy patcher to the current latest release of macOS Monterey 12.6.

He still had Adobe CS4 photoshop running on them, with MacOS El Capitan and High Sierra, but of course this 32-bit app wont run anymore on Monterey.

I tried to install CC 2021-2022 of photoshop, but gave an error during the setup, the lack of SSE4.2 instruction sets for the CPU I think, which are missing and wont install further.

perhaps there is a way to get photoshop to run/install, he only needs basic editing..
what version is recommended ?

Mac's he is running is a macbook 13" 2009 and an 2009 iMac, both have non metal graphic cards.
We hope to find a version which can still run on them, anyone has an idea ?

Please let us know,

Regards,
Floris

The best option would be to boot into High Sierra to run Photoshop there. There are no non-subscription versions of Photoshop that’ll run on Monterey.
Newer and more basic apps like Pixelmator Pro might be an option but they may also depend on CPU and GPU features that don’t exist in this old hardware.

 

[FlorisVN]

The best option would be to boot into High Sierra to run Photoshop there. There are no non-subscription versions of Photoshop that’ll run on Monterey.
Newer and more basic apps like Pixelmator Pro might be an option but they may also depend on CPU and GPU features that don’t exist in this old hardware.

Thanks I understand, a subscription version is not a problem.
He still prefers to run withouth dual boot, so perhaps there is still a version of CC or an older version which can run on this older hardware under Monterey ?

 

[bogdanw]

Photoshop system requirements | earlier releases
https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/system-requirements/earlier-versions.html
System requirements | Older versions of Photoshop
https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/system-requirements-old-versions.html

 

[FlorisVN]

Photoshop system requirements | earlier releases
https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/system-requirements/earlier-versions.html
System requirements | Older versions of Photoshop
https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/system-requirements-old-versions.html

Thanks, seems like Photoshop 21.x (2020) is perhaps the last one compatible with non metal mac's.
But then Monterey is not on the OS list, perhaps there is a way possible to make te installer still being able to run/start it withouth giving a warning that it's not supported on newer macOS ?

technicually it should work I would think, since CS4 was also not meant to run under El Capitan / High Sierra, but still ran just fine..
Photoshop 2020 is a 64-bit app.

Is there no way to make the setup run the application, and run it afterall ?
For example to disable some parameters, and allow it to run under monterey for example ?

 

[bogdanw]

You should try to install it from the Creative Cloud desktop app
https://helpx.adobe.com/download-install/using/install-previous-version.html

 

[FlorisVN]

You should try to install it from the Creative Cloud desktop app
https://helpx.adobe.com/download-install/using/install-previous-version.html

thanks we will try that !

 

[Heindijs]

If all he needs is basic editing, perhaps you should look into Affinity Photo. Works really well on older (unsupported) Macs as well. Not every Photoshop feature is including, but for me it didn’t require much relearning

 

[Minghold]

The best option would be to boot into High Sierra to run Photoshop there. There are no non-subscription versions of Photoshop that’ll run on Monterey.
Newer and more basic apps like Pixelmator Pro might be an option but they may also depend on CPU and GPU features that don’t exist in this old hardware.

High Sierra is really the best OS for old Macs:
* It's the second-last OS to support 32bit apps and plug-ins.
* It's the last HFS+ native OS, but can also access APFS volumes.
* It's designed to run fast with 4gb-ram from a rotational hard-drive.
* You can run Abobe2020 from a 2008 "blackback" core 2 duo iMac.
* Boot volumes are easy to backup with Carbon Copy Cloner 5.
* It's a "featureless" version that fixes El Cap and Sierra bugs.
* Patch methods that don't require new EFI partitions (like OpenCore).
* Plenty of HTML5 browser options (read: nuke Safari).
* Siri is there, if you want it.
* Peggle still works.