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nellis-eketorp
08-20-2008, 01:45 PM
Dear Corel Painter Users!

I'm a frequent user of Painter IX and it's my main tool of creating art. Everything was fine with my Painter since the day I've installed it till yesterday. Something has happen yesterday and the layout and interface of my Painter now looks buggy. I don't know why, I was painting yesterday and today this problem appeared.

My interface now looks awful and you can see it by clicking the link below:
The Buggy Interface (http://img530.imageshack.us/img530/3707/painterbugnr5.jpg)

My graphic card is ATI Radeon 9550 with installed Omega drivers 2.5.97a. My system is: Windows 2000. Till yesterday everything was going ok since 3 years. I don't know what caused the problem. I was using Painter almost everyday and never ever had such a thing. Is it the internal problem of a graphic card? I'll turn the PC off and take it out (I was always doing it when something was wrong and my PC didn't start. Just taking the vcard out for a while and placing it back and the PC resurected ;) Maybe now it will also help). Anyway colors since yesterday are changed and messed. Maybe you've got some tips for me how should I fix it? Or maybe you know the reason of this unexpectable bug? I can't live without Painter... :sad:

I'll be grateful for your help! :love:

With all my respect,
Nellis Eketorp
catnip
08-20-2008, 02:14 PM
It looks like your video settings somehow got switched to 16-bit color instead of 32-bit. (Maybe you played a game or something?)

Just change your color settings back to 32-bit and it'll be back to normal. It's a longstanding quirk with Painter.

Hope that helps!
nellis-eketorp
08-20-2008, 02:28 PM
Million thanks for it! Yes! Indeed I was playing Wizardry 8 and it's an old game hihi :rolleyes: :applause: In my ignorance I skipped the color option to check :D Oh, poor me! Thank you so much!
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