liquid colour crashes prog.

[frightful]

you are running the 64bit version of the program? if you are only running the 32bit version then 12 GB is no help at all, the program will not see most of it

Yes I am running the 64bit version but I wonder if there is a memory allocation problem here. How do I go about allocating memory to Xara.

[handrawn]

the interesting thing is that this is happening on two different computers, so I think you should be looking at what they have in common

what are you applying this effect to; have other effects already been applied, and if so are they locked; has it been photo-manipulated in xara, would it be better to use a bitmap copy; is the object grouped?

in short - does it work if you use a very simple bitmap [such as the default one supplied with the program

[frightful]

Thank you Handrawn.

In this instance, size doesn't seem to matter. I've imported to 'new blank photo' at 96 and imported to an A4 page at 360 or so all with the same crashing result. Looking at the detail in Task Manager it looks like Designer or CambBridge hangs before closing.
I've taken a quick look at the Event viewer but life's too short to summon up the long term attention span grey cells to make any real sense of it.

I have used 'detail' in the Task Manager to let both Designer and CamBridge use more RAM but they don't use any more than usual. Many of the live effects work okay, albeit very slowly but the liquid colour crashes every time when the ok button is used after seeing a preview. For this effect there is no progress bar shown, indicating that the effect isn't taking place. Maybe it's a problem with CamBridge32.exe, its name suggests that it is bridging the differences between the plugins and the system.

So... what I did was to download the 32 bit version onto my laptop and it works perfectly. As most of what I do with Xara is lightweight I can manage quite well with 32 bit. In fact, at my age I shouldn't really be allowed to use anything with that amount of speed. I consider the question answered and shall hurry back to catch up on my lazing about.
Thanks everyone for input.
David

[wizard509]

David,
The 64 bit version should work I think, but, I don't know for sure because I do not have pro.. It could have been a bad download the first time. You might try again just to be sure. Of course if you are happy with the 32 bit version then my all means stick with it.

[zaphodeist]

There has been trouble with cambridge32 before. I seem to remember that it was solved by adding an exception in the AV program. Also, downloading the program rather than using it from the DVD helped in some cases.

[frightful]

thanks everyone. I seem to have everything working using 32 bit so I'll give that a try for a while and see what happens.
I did try downloading a fresh copy of the 64 bit but that was no different than the first one. I haven't seen the CD version yet.
David