Problems with plugins with XP10 64 bit?

[richinri]

Anyone else having problems with the 32 bit plugins that are supposed to work in the 64bit v10? Eye Candy 7 locks up on mine requiring me to kill the program process using control-alt-delete.

[gwpriester]

This is something you should post in the Xara Plug-in forum http://www.talkgraphics.com/forumdis...atible-Plugins. Frances will probably know more about this than I do. I faintly remember this was a problem in the last version as well.

[angelize]

I've moved this thread into the plug in forum There is a problem with Eye Candy 7 when used with Xara as a host. When they came out with version 7 they did some major re writing to make the plug in more compatible with the newest version of photoshop. Unfortunately the changes cause problems with Xara, and when I looked into this last year a rep from Alien Skin told me that it was unlikely that they would fix it any time soon because PS users are their main market.

I don't have version 7 of Eye Candy as I never upgraded from version 6 because of this but I did test version 6 with DP 10 and it worked fine for me.

[richinri]

Thank you Angelize.

[richinri]

I have the older versions (which I think Xara still sells) of Eye Candy 4000 and Xenofex. They seem to work just fine in the 64 bit Xara 10.

[Alan Brown]

Yes Alienskin Eyecandy 7 is flashing up an "ACCESS VIOLATION EXCEPTION AT 0X6B40C34C" in the TRIAL download of XPRO10. Eyecandy 7 still works fine in XPRO9. OP System is Windows 8.

[angelize]

My suggestion with Eye candy is if you have a copy of version 6 stick with that, don't upgrade and contact Alien Skin support, they have a chat support feature on their website. The more interest they see in using EC with Xara software the more of a chance there might be that they might look at fixing these issues sooner rather than later.

[richinri]

I spoke with them Angelize and frankly, I did not feel they were the least bit interested in working on the issues with Xara. I even asked if they would be willing to sell the older versions, they said no. I notice Xara still has the AV Bros puzzle pro and page curl for sale so I guess they will work ok. I will use EC7 in my paint program and use the old ones in Xara. I am glad I got them when I did because I like them.

[angelize]

I'm not surprised that they don't want to bother working on the issues with Xara. It's too bad that they won't let those that want it purchase EC 6. I have it and the improvements in the chrome filter alone make it worthwhile.

[ankhor]

Yep, it is kinda weird that they don't sell older versions? I mean, money is money.