Painter 7 painting on a Mac is really slow
Garry Bradley
I've just installed Painter 7 on my Mac G4 500 Dual running OS 9.2.1 with a
Wacom Intuos tablet and the painting is slow and time lagged.
There's nothing worse than not seeing your paint stroke in real time and it
becomes pretty much unusable. It works under OS X perfectly, which is great
news but I don't currently work in OS X full time due to the lack of
Photoshop support.
As far as I can see it must be a clash between the new OS 9.2.1 and the
Wacom extension because I've given Painter some major memory allocation. I
can't seem to remember it happening with version 6.1 so I'm stumped.
Has anyone else got this problem?
Regards
Garry
Volker Greulich
> Hi all
> I've just installed Painter 7 on my Mac G4 500 Dual running OS 9.2.1 with a
> Wacom Intuos tablet and the painting is slow and time lagged.
> Has anyone else got this problem?
Yes,especially when you use a larger brush.Changing brush sizes with the
sliders on "customs control" involves a lot of harddisk activity,before
the sliders move and the intended change is made.This is also true for
every activation of the general brush controls.Very irritating.
I think in prevoius versions of Painter all those operations were
executed using internal memory instructions and this was much quicker.
> There's nothing worse than not seeing your paint stroke in real time and it
> becomes pretty much unusable. It works under OS X perfectly, which is great
> news but I don't currently work in OS X full time due to the lack of
> Photoshop support.
>
> As far as I can see it must be a clash between the new OS 9.2.1 and the
> Wacom extension because I've given Painter some major memory allocation. I
> can't seem to remember it happening with version 6.1 so I'm stumped.
I use an old Wacom tablet 256 levels (the smallest one) and I tried for
fun even a mouse-no change in speed.
I have made an extra partition (4 Giga) only for Painter 7 with a
minisystefilem of 8.6 no change to the better.I have also changed
several times memory attribution 50 -80 -200- Meg No change,what so
ever.
regards
Volker Greulich
>
Lisa
Try deleting your tablet preferences and rebooting the system. (Macintosh HD
| System folder | Preferences | Tablet Preferences)
If you are still experiencing the same problems, uninstall your Wacom
tablet, and reinstall with the latest release of the tablet driver available
at www.wacom.com
Please let me know if this helps.
Lisa C
Corel Technical Services
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Lisa wrote:
>
> Gary,
> Try deleting your tablet preferences and rebooting the system. (Macintosh HD
> | System folder | Preferences | Tablet Preferences)
> If you are still experiencing the same problems, uninstall your Wacom
> tablet, and reinstall with the latest release of the tablet driver available
> at www.wacom.com
>
> Please let me know if this helps.
> Lisa C
> Corel Technical Services
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