PaintShop Pro memory issue?

[Terry Pinnell]

So far I've drawn a blank on this query in the Paintshop Pro group, so
wonder if anyone here can help please? I seem to have some sort of
memory issue, but it only affects PSP7. Quite often it just won't
start, whatever method I use. If I stop some other major programs,
usually it's then able to load. Once the fault arises, apart from
culling other apps, only a reboot will fix it.

PSP7 doesn't seem particularly memory hungry; according to my XP Task
List Manager, it uses only about 10 MB. I have 512 MB RAM and,
providing PSP7 is not one of them, I can have a lot more stuff running
without any problem. Including PSP8, BTW, which takes more RAM.

FWIW, my Virtual Memory for system drive C: is set to a min of 100 MB
and a max of 1000 MB.

Any advice would be appreciated please.

 

[Larry(LJL269)]

I had similar prblm with VR app but it was grabbing all
VM + had 1M pagefaults. Check if PSP is doing this
also. Look 4 any PSP patches & posts to their forums,
FAQs,...which I did 2 no avail.

This did work:
I resized VM partition to 2.0GB & set Min & Max
Pagefile Size to 2GB (I have 512 RAM 2). Right after
loading, I used to get a yellow warning about running
out of space on S & TaskMgr used to say Natspeak.exe
peak memory usage=480MB with 1.1M page faults. Now I
get no warnings & TaskMgr says Natspeak.exe peak memory
usage = 118MB & page faults were 44k!!

Shortly after this I upgraded to next version with no
problems.

HTH - Larry

On Sun, 28 Mar 2004 12:42:02 +0100, Terry Pinnell

|So far I've drawn a blank on this query in the Paintshop Pro group, so
|wonder if anyone here can help please? I seem to have some sort of
|memory issue, but it only affects PSP7. Quite often it just won't
|start, whatever method I use. If I stop some other major programs,
|usually it's then able to load. Once the fault arises, apart from
|culling other apps, only a reboot will fix it.
|
|PSP7 doesn't seem particularly memory hungry; according to my XP Task
|List Manager, it uses only about 10 MB. I have 512 MB RAM and,
|providing PSP7 is not one of them, I can have a lot more stuff running
|without any problem. Including PSP8, BTW, which takes more RAM.
|
|FWIW, my Virtual Memory for system drive C: is set to a min of 100 MB
|and a max of 1000 MB.
|
|Any advice would be appreciated please.

Any advise is my attempt to contribute more than I have received but I can only assure you that it works on my PC. GOOD LUCK.

 

[Alex Nichol]

PSP7 doesn't seem particularly memory hungry; according to my XP Task
List Manager, it uses only about 10 MB. I have 512 MB RAM and,
providing PSP7 is not one of them, I can have a lot more stuff running
without any problem. Including PSP8, BTW, which takes more RAM.

FWIW, my Virtual Memory for system drive C: is set to a min of 100 MB
and a max of 1000 MB.

Those are settings very like mine, where PSP7 gives no trouble. I
would suspect that if, as you imply, you have also got PSP8 on the same
machine, that you have overwritten some file in the process by a version
that 7 does not like. If that is not the situation, I would do a
reinstall of the program. Mine shows as using 13MB of memory immediately
after launch, with no file in use - loading a graphic into it can of
course use a great deal