Can't change memory in P8

[LarryDallas]

Has this happened to anyone? I'm running painter 8 on an emac with no problems except that it won't let me increase the memory. No warnings or messages--it's just never let me highlight the numbers! They aren't greyed out. the only thing that is is the 'locked' option box, and it is currently unchecked. Any ideas?

Thanks in advance...

[Jin]

Hi,

I'm not a Mac user so this may not apply to your own Mac OS version:

I've read that on at least some Mac OS versions, memory is automatically allocated as needed.

Other Mac users can tell you if that applies to yours.

In WinXP Home, using Painter 8, we can go to Edit > Preferences > Operating System and the following options are available to check:

Physical Memory Usage

Maximum Memory for Painter
Half of Memory for Painter

Printing Options

Free Memory for Printing
No Printing Banding

Display Option

No Device Dependent Bitmaps

MMX Option

Enable MMX

(I have Maximum Memory for Painter checked.)

Don't know if any of the above options are available on Mac's but you might want to take a look.


Good luck,

[LarryDallas]

Hey Jin,

I looked through all the options and didn't find anything that had to do with memory...no luck, but thanks!

[Jin]

Hi Larry,

Eventually some Mac users should come along and be able to help.

In the meantime, you might try posting your question to the followng:

Corel Painter Newsgroup
Add Server: cnews.corel.ca
Subscribe to: corel.graphic_apps.painter

Painter list at Topica.com
http://www.topica.com/lists/painter-list/

Good luck! :)

[LarryDallas]

Okay, a buddy of mine fogured this out. In the general section of the Get Info window there is an option box titled "Open in Classic Environment" just above the memory section, check that box and then you are able to change the default memory. It's dumb seeing as how P8 is an OSX progam, but it works.

[Jin]

Glad to hear you got it fixed!

:)

[Philippe]

Has this happened to anyone? I'm running painter 8 on an emac with no problems except that it won't let me increase the memory. No warnings or messages--it's just never let me highlight the numbers! They aren't greyed out. the only thing that is is the 'locked' option box, and it is currently unchecked. Any ideas?


If you are running in MacOSX, Painter will automatically grab whatever memory it needs. If you are running MacOS 9, you can set the memory allocation manually.

Note that the memory allocation in MacOS 9 (or "Classic", in MacOSX) has no effect whatsoever when running Painter in MacOS X.

[LarryDallas]

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