Insufficient memory

[Aberrant]

I got a 6D art pen so I'm playing around with brushes, and when I start using too many expressions (rotation for angle seems to really cause it, which is the reason I got the pen) I get:

"Insufficient memory to complete this operation"

So I open up task manager and it says painter is using 90MB of RAM. It says theres just over 1.1GB of physical memory available (besides what it's already using) while it gives this message. Mem usage in painter prefs is set to use 85% of available memory, and scratch disk is set to a dedicated drive it has all to itself with 40GB free.

I'm pissed cause this pen is really cool and painter won't let me use it.

[Jin]

Try using a smaller brush size.


Jinny

[Aberrant]

20 pixels is too big? This looks like a bug to me.

[Jin]

20 pixels shouldn't be too big. It's not too big on my system, though I only have the Art Pen brushes, not an Intuos 3 tablet or the 6D Art Pen so I can't do a perfect comparison.

My system is:

Pentium 4
2.53 gHz
512 MB RAM
120 MB hard drive space with about 75% free

It may be other things that are causing the "not enough memory" problem.

Read the Sticky thread at the top of this forum named "Keeping Painter 6, Painter 7, and Painter 8 Running Smoothly" and follow those suggestions.

Maybe that'll help.

Good luck,


Jinny

[Aberrant]

Thanks for the help, but I think we're thinking of this in the wrong way. It's not a true low memory issue, it can't be. THeres well over a GB of RAM available, and the scratch disk is a dedicated 60GB with mostly free space. The canvas is small and blank, brush size is a tiny 20 pixels, to be honest I would have a big problem if even 80 pixels were too big.

The art pen brush pack works good, but not many brushes I find useful, which is why I tried to create my own and discovered I couldn't.