Corel Painter Classic Error Message

[k.jethwa]

I have just installed Painter Classic.

When I run it I get the following error.

"Initialization Error"
"Not enough free memory to run painter"

I have got 1 Gig of memory!!

Running on Windows XP Athlon 1900 machine.

Any ideas?

Thanks in anticipation.

Nigel

[Karen Sperling]

Painter before version 7 couldn't run with more than 500 megs of memory.
It's probably the same with Painter Classic, since it's old software, and I
don't believe Corel has upgraded it.

--
Karen Sperling
Editor/Publisher
Artistry Painter Tutorial CD's and Classes
http://www.artistrymag.com

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[Ed Wiser]

Here is a message I saved from awhile ago that might help you.
There was a bug in all versions of Painter before 7 like Karen said.
Goes back to the old days when ram was high dollar and they never though
anyone would ever have
a gig of ram.

Hello everyone,

I recently had the experience of upgrading my computer's RAM and ran
into the dreaded "Out of Tiles" message. After an afternoon of
experimenting I was able to come up with something of a workaround, and
I thought I'd post my findings.

First, my original specs:
AMD Athlon, VIA chipset, 512 megs of RAM, Windows 2000 with SP2

With RAM prices so cheap now ($60 for 512mb at www.crucial.com ) I
decided to upgrade to 1gb. I installed it, and everything worked fine
except Painter, both versions 6.1 and 7, which crashed with the Tiles
message.

Procreate support, of course, was non-existent, but I did find some old
support documents on the Corel site for Painter 6.1. Here's the link:

http://kb.corel.com/kbdocs/UNKNOWN/Painter55Mac/Painter55Mac_206451.htm

(The title says the information applies to Painter 5.5 on the Mac, but
it's wrong.)

On the Corel support page are instructions for modifying the BOOT.INI
file to restrict the amount of memory allocated to Windows. Basically,
it recommends reducing the memory below 512mb. I tried it, and it
worked, but what's the point? I was back to where I started before I
installed the RAM.

I did some more searches on the Internet and found that people were
successfully running Painter 7 with more than 512mb, and I decided to do
some experimenting. When I restricted the amount of RAM to 768mb, to my
surprise everything worked fine. I bumped it up to 992mb, and it still
worked. At 1023mb it crashed.

Long story short (too late, I know) I have it set at 1000 and it seems
to be working just fine. From what I can conclude, the secret seems to
be to restrict the amount of RAM to something less than the total
physical amount. This number will probably vary, of course, depending on
your configuration. But the key is to restrict it.

So in the end, instead of 1024mb, my system has 1000mb and Painter's
happy. That's good enough for me.

Matt

"k.jethwa" <k.je...@ntlworld.com> wrote in message news:3c66b8d8_1@cnews...

[k.jethwa]

Thanks for all your help,

I have found the following solution,

Its a virtual memory thing.
Here's what I did:

-Right clicked on my computer to get the properties.

-Went into advanced then performance options...

-Clicked on Change under Virtual Memory...

-Then set the Initial size to 500 MB and clicked set.

Then you hit ok and restart the computer.

Nigel

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