Painter hogs 100% cpu?!

[RafalH]

What gives? I just installed the latest trial version of Painter and the moment I start a new canvas or go to a menu CPU usage hits 90-100% and stays there. Obviously this makes working with the program quite a pain in the ass, especially apparent when using small brush sizes (won't draw properly). Anyone else experiencing this and is there any way to fix it?

that's weird. I thought the issue was fixed with 8.1 patch - it did for me (I have v 8.1 now). It never affected the brushes btw. And I tried the IX version too, and didnt have any problems either. What CPU do you have?

[LaXu]

I've got an AMD Athlon64 3000+. Should not be a case of not having the hardware to run it, I can run other graphics software just fine and no lack of memory either. In fact after starting Painter takes like 40-50 MB of memory but 90-100% CPU. It's a weird bug and I'm a bit afraid that it is a result of crappy programming.

[Munk]

I don't see anywhere near your cpu/ram usage with IX on an Intel P4/3.2 ghz chip. This is what I get with IE6, a screen capture program and IX open; 10-12% Cpu and 25% for Ram use. I get similar results on 3 other PC's so the bug you refer to isn't the result of bad IX code for the Intel chip but could be for the AMD. Contact Rick.Champagne@corel.com at Corel and he may look into it for you.

Munk

[LaXu]

I did already sent Corel a mail about it, will see if they bother to answer since I'm still using the trial version...

The funny thing is that if the Startup dialog is open after starting Painter, the program only eats like 0-1% cpu. The moment it is closed it's 100% cpu...

[LaXu]

It does seem the problem wasn't caused by Painter directly. Unloading Windowblinds fixed it so I just added Painter to Windowblinds' ignore list and it works fine now. Still occasionally seems to go to 100% when drawing but other than that stays in check.

[Philippec]

It does seem the problem wasn't caused by Painter directly. Unloading Windowblinds fixed it so I just added Painter to Windowblinds' ignore list and it works fine now. Still occasionally seems to go to 100% when drawing but other than that stays in check.

I'm glad you found the source of this problem, because Painter going 100%CPU when it was in the foreground was definitely fixed in Painter IX.

And while drawing, well, you wouldn't want Painter to drop some of the data you are feeding it with your pen now, would you ;)

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