I've been using my laptop and Photoshop for almost a year now with no problems. just in the last couple of days I seem to have developed issues related to the GPU. In Photoshop when I open an image the screen is blank, if I select the window border (of the image) and move it slightly I see the image. Release the mouse button and the image disappears. I've been playing with the settings and I can get the image back, but now it's like any of the zoom and selections made with a mouse are not recognized immediately. For instance I have the image fit in the window, there are no scroll bars appearing. I select the zoom tool and zoom into a portion of the image. The scroll bars appear (because the image is larger than the current window) but the actual content does not size properly. If I select Fit in screen, I get the zoomed image, not the full size image without scroll bars.
I have the NVIDIA Quadro K2000M with Intel Graphics 4000 display adapter. I'm not aware of a Windows update (using 8.1 64 bit) that affected the driver. The driver that was installed was dated 10/2?/2013 on NVIDIA. I tried the Dell downloads page and it showed a couple of driver updates for my Precsion M4700 and those drivers did not work. looks like they aren't updated for Win 8.1? So I rolled back the 10/2013 driver and I believe it went back to 9/2013 driver.
Performance was terrible, all my activity in Photoshop seemed to take two operations to see the result of any changes in the image.
So today I went to the NVIDIA and Intel sites for drivers and those installed. Intel is now a 1/29/2014 10.18.10.312 and NVIDIA is 1/24/2014 v 9.18.13.3250. Using these versions I'm back to the image disappearing unless I drag the window. The NVIDA driver is what their site detected I needed.
Other image programs seem to be ok. I use a couple of other products to browse and review content and they seem to display fine and no performance issues.
Any idea on what to try next? Also I did uninstall and reinstall Photoshop and I deleted all preferences with no change.