Re: [Gimp-user] GIMP 2.8.0 WIN32 - Very Slow

[Liam R E Quin <liam holoweb net>]

On Wed, 2012-05-09 at 04:46 +0200, narkfestmojo wrote:
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> For Me,
> It will slow down and start to lag after just ten minutes or so of drawing.
> I found that you get the speed back if you restart the software.
> It may simply be just clearing the undo stack that fixes it though, but I haven't tried reloading the xcf 
> or clearing undo history yet.
> I am using the x64 version in Windows 7 hp x64.

Clearing the undo history helps for me.

Make sure that your tile cache size is close to the size of physical
memory - e.g. my laptop has 8G of RAM and my tile cache is set to 7G.

(The 32-bit version I think can't go much over 3G tile cache)

Liam


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