MTX1996 Posted June 29, 2014 Share Posted June 29, 2014 Hello. I have decided to recently install Paint.NET onto my school laptop so I can work on my pixel-art on the go. However, I seem to be having a small but VERY annoying problem. You see, while I am using Paint.NET, every minute or so, my laptop will lock-up for a few seconds. Now let me note that this does not mess with my picture any, but it happens so often that is becomes and extreme nuisance. I have tried using /chkdsk /f, as well as an anti-virus (Norton to be exact) and CCleaner. However, it doesn't seem to help any. If you need my computer's specs to help me, I will be more than happy to post them. Thank you for taking your time to read this. Beginner pixel-artist, ~Matt P.S. I apologize if I have posted this in the wrong section, but I am new here to the forums and I wasn't sure if I should put this message in the discussion forums or troubleshooting forums. Quote "If we were to play SkyBlock in hardcore, Trevor would die in the first 5 minutes! We would live until we die of old age!" ~rball99 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barbieq25 Posted June 29, 2014 Share Posted June 29, 2014 Hi MTX, yes please do post the specs for your laptop. Quote Knowledge is no burden to carry. April Jones, 2012 Gallery My DA Gallery Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BoltBait Posted June 29, 2014 Share Posted June 29, 2014 Hi MTX, yes please do post the specs for your laptop. You can do that by clicking on the Gear in Paint.NET and then Diagnostics. Then, click on the "copy to clipboard" button and come here to paste it into a message post. Quote Download: BoltBait's Plugin Pack | CodeLab | and a Free Computer Dominos Game Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MTX1996 Posted June 29, 2014 Author Share Posted June 29, 2014 Application paint.net 4.0 (Final 4.0.5288.36565) Build Date Tuesday, June 24, 2014 Hardware accelerated rendering (GPU) False Animations True Language en-US OS Windows 7 Service Pack 1 (6.1.7601.65536) .NET Runtime 4.0.30319.18444 Physical Memory 2,933 MB CPU Intel® Core i3 CPU M 330 @ 2.13GHz Architecture x86 (32-bit) Process Mode 32-bit Speed ~2128 MHz Cores / Threads 4 Features DEP, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, SSSE3, SSE4_1, SSE4_2 Video Card Intel® Graphics Media Accelerator HD Dedicated Video RAM 64 MB Dedicated System RAM 0 MB Shared System RAM 1,210 MB Vendor ID 0x8086 Device ID 0x0046 Subsystem ID 0x20411B0A Revision 18 LUID 0x0000C3B9 Flags None Outputs 1 Quote "If we were to play SkyBlock in hardcore, Trevor would die in the first 5 minutes! We would live until we die of old age!" ~rball99 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BoltBait Posted June 29, 2014 Share Posted June 29, 2014 Interesting, you're running in 32 bit mode. I'm curious how much testing has been done on 32 bit mode. Quote Download: BoltBait's Plugin Pack | CodeLab | and a Free Computer Dominos Game Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MTX1996 Posted June 30, 2014 Author Share Posted June 30, 2014 So I guess that means that there's not a lot you can do to help me with the problem i'm having? Quote "If we were to play SkyBlock in hardcore, Trevor would die in the first 5 minutes! We would live until we die of old age!" ~rball99 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick Brewster Posted June 30, 2014 Share Posted June 30, 2014 Correct. Sounds like a hardware, driver, or configuration issue. 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...
MikeRobe Posted June 30, 2014 Share Posted June 30, 2014 You sure you're not running too many things in the background? Quote I baked another one... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
midora Posted June 30, 2014 Share Posted June 30, 2014 M.R may be on the right side. So check your memory usage (Control+Shift+Escape). If the system has to swap regulary the user experience will be bad. If this is the case then reduce the number of processes or add more memory if possible. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MTX1996 Posted July 1, 2014 Author Share Posted July 1, 2014 You sure you're not running too many things in the background? The only thing I have got running in the background are Norton anti-virus, Weatherbug, Dropbox, and Rollback Rx. I cannot close out Dropbox because that's where my images are saved and loaded at, Rollback Rx and Norton I cannot close at all, and Weatherbug... well, I guess I could close that out, but I doubt that would help any. M.R may be on the right side. So check your memory usage (Control+Shift+Escape). If the system has to swap regulary the user experience will be bad. If this is the case then reduce the number of processes or add more memory if possible. I checked the amount of memory it's using once it started locking up, and it turns out that the system is only using up about 56,000 K of memory. Sadly, I don't think I will be able to add more memory. I'm not sure if my school would allow me to modify the laptop in such a way. Quote "If we were to play SkyBlock in hardcore, Trevor would die in the first 5 minutes! We would live until we die of old age!" ~rball99 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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