pc speed help

[J_T]

I am using Painter IX on a PC and have no intention of upgrading to X as the performance boost is minimal. Coral should have added PC dual core support with the last release and if they do not come out with it in Painter XI I will stop using the software altogether. There is no way I shall go out and buy a Mac just to get dual core support either. Wake up Corel, I do not imagine I am the only user who feels this way. We want performance and we want it now!

[tacman]

well said JT, us PC users need to stick together

[handrawn]

if there is an alternative to corel painter that is as powerful, in the artistic rather than the graphic design sense, then I'd love to here about it - please

otherwise we are a bit stuck for choice

artweaver is there if you don't already have painter, but its not a replacement

[elsevilla]

got a new pc, its the hp pavilion elite, with 4 gigs of ram, even expandable to 8, but painter only uses 2 gigs of ram and one core, i was worried that vista will eat all the ram, even i planned to change it to xp, but when i used painter i was impressed, no lags at all, not even while rotating the image, im glad i didnt bought the mac pro, this machine works it like buttler on a bread, its really cheap like 1000 bucks, has a video card of 512 envidia, two hard drives of 500, and the ram its top notch, check it out on best buy.

[steve.ledger]

got a new pc, its the hp pavilion elite, with 4 gigs of ram, even expandable to 8

Just remember that a standard 32bit OS cannot make use of more than about 3.5 GB ram.
Typically, a 32bit system with 4GB of RAM will report only 3.5GB of addressable space, though with Vista SP1 the amount of *installed* ram is now reported correctly (though actually addressable space is still 3.5GB)
The 64bit version of Windows Vista does not have this same 4GB memory limit. Instead, each 64-bit version has a limit to the amount of addressable memory.
It is reported that the different 64-bit versions and their maximum memory are as follows:
Vista Basic: 8 GB
Vista Home Premium: 16 GB
Vista Business/Ultimate: 128+ GB

[tacman]

which model matey, can you post a link