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Also this version and build (4.3.2 x86 Portable) seems to have trouble loading a PDN file that I know has lots of layers and content. That PDN project was created on this same old machine using a standard version of PDN 4 last year and and its 29MB in size but did not have that problem though understandably it loads slower than others. I took several minutes and the RAM usage of PDN would spike way up whilst loading. Now it gave me an error saying the file is corrupt or was saved on an earlier version of Paint.NET.

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Why're you using the x86 version? Even at 29MB it could easily decompress to be much larger, especially if there are lots of layers with lots of empty areas.

 

You should see if the x64 version can load the file.

 

x86 builds are on life support right now and may be discontinued in the next year or so.

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Alright, I will try the x64 Portable on my other PC rig on the same file or a copy of that file since it may have been corrupted when I terminated PDN portable yesterday using Task Manager when it was taking too long to load the file. This is an old x86 laptop by the way but I don't recall this issue with PDN standard 4.2.16 and below.

 

Also, I have opened a 14MB size PDN just now and it seems OK except from the fact that I noticed needless memory spikes over 800MB that would drop down dramatically because I have a memory cleaner that is set to clear memory when usage goes way up. I exited PDN, turned off my memory cleaner and opened the 14MB file again and usage stays above 800MB for some reason before I even do anything. I opened a 6.4MB file and usage is just around 155MB. My theory is that this version and build (x86 4.3.2 Portable) has an issue of using too much memory on larger files.

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Can you send me the PDN file?

 

Also you can uninstall the memory cleaner -- they are snake oil, and don't help. They actually make things worse. Raymond Chen, a long time developer on Windows, had a blog post about it a long time ago. I wish I could find it. But basically the gist of it was, "if it were so easy to reduce memory usage like that, wouldn't we just have it baked into Windows?" (memory cleaners work by allocating a big block of memory, forcing everything out to the page file on disk, and then freeing the memory ... voila! your "memory usage" now looks lower)

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The 14MB one? I guess we have an attachment limit. Let me send the 14MB (3200x1280 res) one first to serve as a control but how do I send it?

 

I just re-attempted to open the 29MB PDN now with the memory cleaner turned off this time and it went to a whooping almost 1.3GB usage. This file has 3000x2500 resolution by the way. I don't think I ever had a time that PDN's RAM usage went this high, at least that I know of. The 14MB (3200x1280 res) file still uses up the 800MB range when I opened it again now. I also opened other files with the following stats:

 

(7.28MB file 200MB usage 1344x960 res)

(13.1MB file  260MB usage 1600x1280 res) (//should have been closer to the 14MB file but no?)

(20.9MB file 570MB usage 3000x2500 res)

 

I guess we might have a resolution size threshold before it starts using too much RAM based from what I was able to gather but with some oddities.

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When I try to create the x86 MSI on a x64 system, I'm getting this error. I've been able to create the x86 MSI on a x64 system before so I don't know what changed that caused this to error out. 


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9 hours ago, AIM said:

When I try to create the x86 MSI on a x64 system, I'm getting this error. I've been able to create the x86 MSI on a x64 system before so I don't know what changed that caused this to error out. 


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AIM

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@AIM, the workaround for now is to create the MSI inside of an x86 virtual machine.

 

Starting with 4.3.3 I'll be publishing MSI files over at https://github.com/paintdotnet/release/releases, and /createMsi will be a thing of the past completely.

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On 10/12/2021 at 6:11 AM, WernerP said:

Hey there - im trying to update Version 4.2.16 to 4.3.2 via Microsoft Intune (i've extracted the msi with /createMsi DESKTOPSHORTCUT=0 from github paket paint.net.4.3.2.install.x64.zip) and getting an error:

"The selected app package contains a different execution context compared to the current line of business app."

Name: paint.net
Platform: Windows
Size: 196.65 MiB
MAM Enabled: No
Execution Context: Per-Machine

Can it be the execution context was Per-User before?
Can you help?

Thank you very much!

Werner

 

This should be fixed in 4.3.3. If you could try the alpha and tell me how it goes, I'd appreciate it: 

 

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On 10/28/2021 at 9:56 AM, AIM said:

When I try to create the x86 MSI on a x64 system, I'm getting this error. I've been able to create the x86 MSI on a x64 system before so I don't know what changed that caused this to error out. 


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AIM

MSICreateError.png

 

I'm now publishing MSIs (and removed /createMsi). If you could try out the 4.3.3 alpha release and give me feedback, I'd appreciate it: 

 

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On 10/11/2021 at 1:38 PM, lynxster4 said:

'Convolution' by Argus Magnus is not working at all.  Found in the Advanced Menu.  It opened the first time I used it, but when I hit Okay it crashed.

Repeated tries after that immediately crashed PDN.  The crash log is below:


 

  Reveal hidden contents

 

 

EDIT:  Ran the crash log thru the scanner and it 'found nothing obvious'.  I've rebooted, I'm up to date on my updates, and I ran PDNRepair.

   The plugin still crashes.

 

 

The bug in .NET that causes this was supposed to be fixed in .NET 6, but it wasn't. I'll make sure there's a compatiblity shim in place for the next 4.3.3 alpha (not the one I released today).

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46 minutes ago, Rick Brewster said:

New version (4.3.3) just released: 

 

Yay :)  Thank you!  And it downloaded much faster than before  😍

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