Fix For Painter 11 Speeds

#1

Howdy everybody,
I’ve been trying out Painter 11 for the last couple of days and was genuinely surprised to discover that it was significantly slower than Painter X when it came to scrolling and rotating. Especially on 4000 pixels and beyond.
Well, I resolved to get to the bottom of this yesterday, and I’ll be damned if I just haven’t!

Simply press Ctrl+K to bring up the general preferences, and in the bottom left of the window uncheck the 'Draw zoomed-out views using area-averaging".
Hit OK.
That’s it.

After this both panning and rotating is quick, if not quicker than Painter X. The brush strokes I believe are improved a little as well, but maybe that’s just wishful thinking.

If this helps anyone else, or if anyone else has any speed fixes, please feel free to share.
Happy painting.

#2

Good tip. Yes, my UI is now like it should be and everything seems to be a little quicker as well. I just noticed that I had that option unchecked on my Painter IX. I don’t know why they have it on as default? It seems to slow the whole app down.

#3

I switched this off straight away as even in X it bogged down. P11 is still considerably slower than X (in part possibly explained by it using 45% CPU even when idle - http://painterfactory.com/forums/t/1277.aspx )

#4

Yep, same here. I’ve had that off very early on…not a help on my Mac.

#5

Is there still someone trying to use P11? or is everybody waiting for the patch for P11?

I tried completely disabling the brush ghosting yesterday and guess what?
the CPU usage hanging problem is gone. if I put my intuos3 pen aside from the tablet.
CPU usage drop to near 0%. it would still bump up and down ocasionaly to about 8%.

Need someone to confirm if it is the same.

#6

sorry… me bad!
starting to paint and put the pen aside the problem came back again.

#7

Thanks for trying, anyway. This seems to be a recurring process with Painter 11; looking for a bug fix, finding it, jumping for joy, working for a while with the new fixed program…bug returns to mock you.

#8

BTW
Today I ran Painter 7 again on my powerbook G4 1.5 gh and I almost cried. It´s darn fast compared to Painter 11 in a brand new C2D 2.16gh. But I´m liking Painter 11.

#9

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