Caroline's Painter Insights

Hello Caroline,

This is actually copy pasted from my comment entry to Dan's post a while ago about Painter's Memory. I posted a question that haven't got answered by him. So here goes:

I looked into this article hoping to find an answer to my problem related to memory settings. I just noticed, about two weeks ago, that my "scratch drive" box is empty (the one right below the memory slider, but off-course you know that), I remember setting it the first time I installed Painter to drive D. So, I clicked it to roll down the list of drives, and strangely the list is also empty, I can't choose a scratch drive. I cannot  notice the impact to the performance though, except that whenever I try to enlarge a digital airbrush variant to ridiculously big size (above 700!) then an error message is popped out saying i don't have enough RAM. Now i don't know if this is related to the scratch drive issue i'm having, or maybe Painter doesn't allow a brush to be that monstrous in size.

My question is, off-course, where the list go? Will it actually impact Painter's performance?

Thanks in advance."

Thank you in advance too, Caroline :)

W.

I am taking this time to say thanks for finally getting it right. I've been a fan of Painter since Version 7 not because it was perfect but because I believed in the vision of the product Corel was trying to make. Painter 12 is that product. Finally, an art program that behaves like a real art tool.

I noticed you guys dodged a lot of the complaints leveled against Painter 10 and 11. They were cool programs but not the best. Painter 12 BLOWS those 2 away as well as any other art program I've used ( Photoshop what!!). It shows you were listening to us.

If you consider yourself being serious about art then get Painter 12 on a fast workstation.

Corel Team be proud of yourselves.

Peace

Hi Caroline:

I thoroughly read through "Understanding Painter's memory settings". I finished creating the F-15 Strike Eagle as seen on my home page. 30 x 24 - 240 ppi - file size 76.3 megs. I'm using Corel Painter 11 with patch1, iMac specs:  OSX 10.6.8 - 3 GB 667 MHz DDR2 SDRam,  2 Ghz Intel Core Duo, 200 GB Internal HD, 300 GB External (5 GB assigned for Scratch Disk). I wasn't using a Scratch Disk for the F-15 and all worked fine. I also ran iShowU (display recorder), and at times Firefox. All worked great! Started a new painting same size as above. Using the same brush, and settings, I started painting and now I'm getting a huge lag after I make a brush stroke. (spinning wheel). So I Googled the problem and read your post on "Tiles".

With the competed F-15 file open: Total Tiles: 3776, Locked Tiles 2, Free Tiles: 2276, Free Heap: 1520331K.

With the new painting and only a pencil sketch layer: Total Tiles: 2275, Locked Tiles 2, Free Tiles: 0 (Yes Zero), Free Heap: 1520331K.

So that's when I decided to partition my external drive allocating 5 GB for a Scratch Disk, thinking this would help. Nothing.

I've tried re-booting the computer, using the F-15 file and erasing the data, saving it under another name to start my new painting.

Am I missing something here? I'm using the default 80% memory usage, and now a Scratch Disk.

PLEASE help!

Thx,

PNut

While I am sad to see Dan go, I don't see why this got a 1 star rating. No need to be so hateful when Caroline understands the weight and shoes she has to fill.