Painter on mac slowdown issue!!!

[Ghiangelo]

I've recently tried using painter IX.5 on a mac laptop with 2gb of ram - no applications open and 100% ram mem dedicated. plenty of space on the HD andddd...... its SOOO slow when i'm using a large brush ona usual 1000px wide 300dpi canvas,

I'm expecting the response of - dont use it on a mac use it on a PC - however, this isnt possible where i am at the moment. Plus i'm surprised its so slow when it should work fine on a mac!!

please help if anybody knows something i could do, or need to fix! :S

thankyou! :D

large brush? 300 ppi file? moving slow?...

sounds normal

this is how it goes with large brushes at high ppi. and ur on a laptop which makes matters worse. PC isn't any faster. until a 5 Ghz Xeon comes around learn to use smaller brushes :)

[acmepixel]

Yep, laptop drives are slow. Typically 4500 rpm. You have to pay a lot extra to get a 7200 rpm drive into a laptop, while 10,000 rpm drives are becoming common on desktop workstations, which also boast fast SATA or even FiberChannel buses now. Laptops, can't handle such speeds without melting into a molten puddle.

Both Painter and Photoshop like to have at least 4 to 8 times the files memory size in scratch space on the drive. That's why both apps tend to run much faster on workstations; more ''elbow room''.

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