praeclarum Posted July 21, 2009 Share Posted July 21, 2009 I used to love Paint.NET. But when I installed a recent version of it (v3.36) in a VMware Fusion v2.0.1 Win2003 R2 machine, I have found that my mouse slows down in the image area of the application. It's a consistent slowdown that goes away when the mouse is over a tool window or the chrome of the application. I run a lot of software and have never seen this slowdown before. I run .NET apps, WPF apps, Flash apps, DirectX apps - none of them demonstrate the slowdown like Paint.NET. What could it be about Paint.NET's client region that would cause this? Environment Machine: MacBook 13" running VMware Fusion v2.0.1 OS: Win2003 R2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick Brewster Posted July 28, 2009 Share Posted July 28, 2009 I've found that virtual machines have radically different performance characteristics. Sometimes things run at full speed, other times they run significantly slower. If you're using the brush tool, Paint.NET is actually redrawing a small area of the canvas whenever you move the mouse (it's drawing a circle to preview the brush size -- might not be visible unless you jump to a larger brush size). Try switching to the Rectangle Selection tool and see if the lag goes away. I use Parallels on my MacBook Pro and it runs pretty good, although it has its own quirks. Quote The Paint.NET Blog: https://blog.getpaint.net/ Donations are always appreciated! https://www.getpaint.net/donate.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wyattbiker Posted August 12, 2009 Share Posted August 12, 2009 I use Paint.net with Parallels for the Mac. It is excellent and cheaper than buying any of the paid software. As a matter of fact I use Parallels for many Windows apps and have never had it crash. Ir runs Windows better than Windows. Worth the $60 after rebate. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cybashoota Posted October 26, 2009 Share Posted October 26, 2009 It laggs when i draw a line with several tools like the brush tool since version 3.5. take some time till the line is complete. my specs: Intel Core 2 2.4 Ghz 4096 mb RAM ATI HD 2600 512mb Vista SP2 64-bit Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jenny9878 Posted October 29, 2009 Share Posted October 29, 2009 Hello praeclarum. I am Jenny, working with graphic designer company. You can see that any website's image part will take more time to load because images are always more loaded than text appearence. I can understand your problem of slow mouse working due to image part. The mouse will definetly go slow when you are using any image processing software like photoshop, 3D animation or paint.net. Quote r4 games Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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